List of Black New York Times Best Selling Authors
This is a list of books written by black authors that have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list in any ranking or category.
The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category.[1]
Date | Book | Author |
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August 1, 1970 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
August 17, 1976 | Roots: The Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley |
April 12, 1981 | Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
1984 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
January 25, 1987 | Fatherhood | Bill Cosby |
August 16, 1987 | Bill Cosby | |
May 8, 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
May 8, 1988 | Moonwalk | Michael Jackson |
May 20, 1990 | The Temple of My Familiar | Alice Walker |
May 20, 1990 | Bill Cosby | |
December 30, 1990 | Bo Knows Bo | Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap |
November 17, 1991 | Bill Cosby | |
May 3, 1992 | Jazz | Toni Morrison |
August 2, 1992 | Waiting to Exhale | Terry McMillan |
August 2, 1992 | Possessing the Secret of Joy | Alice Walker |
October 3, 1993 | Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad | |
October 31, 1993 | Maya Angelou | |
November 21, 1993 | Diana Ross | |
July 31, 1994 | Black Betty | Walter Mosley |
July 31, 1994 | Hugh Pearson | |
July 31, 1994 | ||
June 4, 1995 | Glenn C. Loury | |
November 19, 1995 | Stanley Crouch | |
May 16, 1996 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Terry McMillan |
June 2, 1996 | Bad as I Wanna Be | Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown |
June 2, 1996 | Christopher Darden with Jess Walter | |
December 1, 1996 | Patti Labelle with Laura B. Randolph | |
March 16, 1997 | Jervis Anderson | |
November 16, 1997 | Book | Whoopi Goldberg |
February 1, 1998 | Paradise | Toni Morrison |
March 1, 1998 | Addicted | Zane (author) |
November 28, 1998 | Michael Jordan | |
October 3, 1999 | Iyanla Vanzant | |
January 30, 2000 | Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Joe Laydon | |
September 24, 2000 | Not a Day Goes By | E. Lynn Harris |
December 31, 2000 | Iyanla Vanzant | |
February 5, 2001 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Terry McMillan |
September 9, 2001 | Cane River | |
September 9, 2001 | E. Lynn Harris | |
November 18, 2001 | Q | Quincy Jones |
March 31, 2002 | Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word | Randall Kennedy |
June 8, 2003 | Eric Jerome Dickey | |
October 12, 2003 | Charles Moose and Charles Fleming | |
July 18, 2004 | On the Down Low | J. L. King and Karen Hunter |
February 6, 2005 | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell |
April 30, 2006 | Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings | Tyler Perry |
November 12, 2006 | The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama |
April 15, 2007 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah |
August 5, 2007 | Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker | |
October 21, 2007 | My Grandfather's Son | Clarence Thomas |
October 7, 2008 | Van Jones | |
December 21, 2008 | Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
June 2, 2009 | Dork Diaries Book 1: Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life | Rachel Renee Russell |
July 7, 2009 | America's Most Wanted Recipes | Ron Douglas |
November 1, 2009 | Push | Sapphire (author) |
November 1, 2009 | Say You're One of Them | Uwem Akpan |
June 8, 2010 | Dork Diaries Book 2: Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl | Rachel Renee Russell |
Nov 22, 2010 | The Adventures of Angus the Mouse | Montice Harmon |
February 13, 2011 | What the Dog Saw | Malcolm Gladwell |
February 13, 2011 | Decoded | Jay-Z |
February 27, 2011 | Michael Oher with Don Yaeger | |
June 7, 2011 | Dork Diaries Book 3: Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star | Rachel Renee Russell |
October 11, 2011 | Dork Diaries Book 3.5: How To Dork Your Diary | Rachel Renee Russell |
January 1, 2012 | The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
April 3, 2012 | Rebuild the Dream | Van Jones |
June 5, 2012 | Dork Diaries Book 4: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess | Rachel Renee Russell |
October 2, 2012 | Dork Diaries Book 5: Tales From a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 4, 2013 | Dork Diaries Book 6: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker | Rachel Renee Russell |
October 1, 2013 | Dork Diaries OMG!: All About Me Diary! | Rachel Renee Russell |
March 9, 2014 | David and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell |
June 3, 2014 | Dork Diaries Book 7: Tales From a Not-So-Glam TV Star | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 8, 2014 | Ben Carson with Candy Carson | |
September 30, 2014 | Dork Diaries Book 8: Tales From a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 2, 2015 | Dork Diaries Book 9: Tales From a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen | Rachel Renee Russell |
August 2, 2015 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
September 20, 2015 | Everything, Everything | Nicola Yoon |
October 20, 2015 | Dork Diaries Book 10: Tales From a Not-So-perfect Pet Sitter | Rachel Renee Russell |
Dork Diaries Book 10: Tales From a Not-So-perfect Pet Sitter | Rachel Renee Russell | |
May 29, 2016 | Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter | |
June 7, 2016 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 1: Locker Hero | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 26, 2016 | Terry McMillan | |
June 26, 2016 | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
September, 2016 | Shonda Rhimes | |
November 3, 2016 | Nicola Yoon | |
November 15, 2016 | Dork Diaries Book 11: Tales From a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy | Rachel Renee Russell |
January 29, 2017 | Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly |
January 29, 2017 | Octavia Butler with Damian Duffy and John Jennings | |
February 28, 2017 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
March 26, 2017 | Dear Ijeawele | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
April 9, 2017 | Tiger Woods with Lorne Rubenstein | |
May 7, 2017 | Charlamagne tha God | |
May 21, 2017 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson |
May 21, 2017 | The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu |
May 28, 2017 | Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom | Condoleezza Rice |
June 6, 2017 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 2: Middle School Mayhem | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 25, 2017 | Kevin Hart & Neil Strauss | |
July 2, 2017 | Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay |
July 9, 2017 | Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
August 27, 2017 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
October 10, 2017 | Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together | Van Jones |
October 17, 2017 | Dork Diaries Book 12: Tales From a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe | Rachel Renee Russell |
November 5, 2017 | Dear Martin | Nic Stone |
December 4, 2017 | The Last Black Unicorn | Tiffany Haddish |
December 5, 2017 | Vashti Harrison | |
January 21, 2018 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
February 6, 2018 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
February 6, 2018 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
February 6, 2018 | The Belles | Dhonielle Clayton |
March 6, 2018 | Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi |
October 16, 2018 | Dork Diaries Book 13: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday | Rachel Renee Russell |
June 4, 2019 | The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 3: Masters of Mischief | Rachel Renee Russell |
October 22, 2019 | Dork Diaries Book 14: Tales From a Not-So-Best Friend Forever | Rachel Renee Russell |
See also[]
- American literature
- African-American literature
- Lists of The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers
- Lists of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers
References[]
- ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times". Retrieved 2017-12-22.
Categories:
- The New York Times Best Seller list
- African-American literature
- Lists of African-American people