January – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

February – This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

March – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

April – Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

May – Halsey Street by Naima Coster

June – Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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January –The Mothers by Brit Bennett
February – Swing Time by Zadie Smith
March – Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
April – Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
May – This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe

June – What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
July – No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
August – What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

November – An Unkindness of Ghosts

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January – The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
February – Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
March – We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
April – Summer of the Cicadas by Cole Lavalais
June – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
July – The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
August – Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
September – The Thunder Beneath Us by Nicole Blades
November – You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
December – The Mothers by Brit Bennett

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August – Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
September – The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
November – The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
December – Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson