Black & African American Historical Fiction

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Snapshot taken from Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers in Black & African American Historical Fiction

  • American Spy: A Novel book cover
  • Send Judah First: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul book cover
  • Golden Poppies: A Novel book cover
  • Say Goodbye for Now book cover
  • The Tubman Train (The Underground Railroad Book 3) book cover
  • The Water Dancer: A Novel book cover
  • A Hope Divided (The Loyal League Book 2) book cover
  • The Tide Between Us: An Epic Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation book cover
  • Homegoing: A novel book cover
  • A Tangled Mercy: A Novel book cover
  • Mustard Seed book cover
  • Deacon King Kong: A Novel book cover
  • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel book cover
  • The Indigo Girl: A Novel book cover
  • The Good Lord Bird: A Novel book cover
  • The Color Purple book cover
  • Sister of Mine: A Novel book cover
  • Lovecraft Country: A Novel book cover
  • The Disappearing Man (The Underground Railroad Book 2) book cover
  • The Secret Life of Bees book cover
  • The Inheritance Trilogy book cover
  • The Temple of My Familiar (The Color Purple Collection Book 2) book cover
  • The Keepers of the House book cover
  • Washington Black: A novel book cover
  • A Slave of the Shadows (The Livingston Legacy Book 1) book cover
  • The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations) book cover
  • One House Over (The Neighbors Series Book 1) book cover
  • The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Journey to Winter Garden: (Revised Edition 2020) book cover
  • Civil Warriors book cover
  • Let Me Fly book cover
  • The Melanin Empath: Discover the Knowledge of Melanated Beings Born With Empath Energy book cover
  • The Throwback: The Girl Who Wasn't Wanted book cover
  • Charleston's Daughter (The Low Country Series Book 1) book cover
  • The Help book cover
  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy Book 1) book cover
  • A Guardian of Slaves (The Livingston Legacy Book 2) book cover
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel book cover
  • The Dogwood Plantation, Part Two: Hope book cover
  • An Uncommon Beauty (Abiding Love Book 2) book cover
  • The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy book cover
  • A Quiet Strength (Salis House Plantation Book 1) book cover
  • Antebellum Struggles: Slavery, Lust and Suspicion book cover
  • An Extraordinary Union: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War (The Loyal League Book 1) book cover
  • Union's Daughter (The Low Country Series Book 2) book cover
  • Always & Forever: A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance (The Plantation Series Book 1) book cover
  • West of the Dead Line: Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman book cover
  • WINNIE book cover
  • FANCY book cover
  • A Kind of Freedom: A Novel book cover
  • The Dogwood Plantation, Part Four: Sorrow book cover
  • To Kill A Mockingbird: Enhanced Edition book cover
  • The Favorite Slave: A Civil War Drama book cover
  • Molly's Memoir book cover
  • The Red Garden: A Novel book cover
  • As Good as True book cover
  • Neither Death Nor Distance book cover
  • Underground: Traitors and Spies in the Civil War (Women Spies Book 2) book cover
  • A Quiet Faith (Salis House Plantation Book 3) book cover
  • The Songbook of Benny Lament book cover
  • The Prodigy Slave, Book Three: The Ultimate Grand Finale (Revised Edition 2020) book cover
  • Die Without You: A Complete Historical Romance book cover
  • Jilo (Witching Savannah Book 4) book cover
  • Whispers of War (The Livingston Legacy Book 3) book cover
  • Wench: A Novel (P.S.) book cover
  • The Darkest Child book cover
  • A Quiet Peace (Salis House Plantation Book 2) book cover
  • A Quiet Hope (Salis House Plantation Book 4) book cover
  • The Prodigy Slave, Book Two: The Old World: (Revised Edition 2020) book cover
  • The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man) book cover
  • The Cost of Hope (The Cost of Love Series Book 1) book cover
  • The House Girl: A Novel (P.S.) book cover
  • Song Yet Sung: A Novel book cover
  • The Revisioners: A Novel book cover
  • The Whistle Walk (Ironwood Plantation Family Saga Book 1) book cover
  • In the Pines - an 1800s Black / Native American Novella (The Lumbee Indian Saga Book 2) book cover
  • After the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967 book cover
  • Prisoner of Love book cover
  • The Nickel Boys: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 book cover
  • Missing Mercy: A Christian Historical Novel (Ironwood Plantation Family Saga Book 3) book cover
  • Ridden Hard: A BWWM Cowboy Romance (BWWM Westerns Book 1) book cover
  • The Book of Night Women book cover
  • Miracle at St. Anna book cover
  • Meridian book cover
  • Across the Way (The Neighbors Series Book 3) book cover
  • Kiss in the Wind (The Edenville Series Book 2) book cover
  • Mandingo book cover
  • Sweet Bitter Freedom: the enthralling sequel to the Throwback book cover
  • An Unconditional Freedom: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War (The Loyal League Book 3) book cover
  • Keeper of Slaves: Book Two of Antebellum Struggles book cover
  • Love In the Jim Crow South: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults book cover
  • A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries) book cover
  • The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II book cover
  • Passing through Perfect: Family Saga (A Wyattsville Novel Book 3) book cover
  • Ways of Kings: (Wolves Among Women) (Book 1) a Werewolf Shifter Romance book cover
  • Brown Girl, Brownstones book cover
  • Home: A novel (Vintage International) book cover
  • The Wildes of the West #1: The Daughters of Half Breed Haven: Old west fiction of action adventure, romance & western… book cover
  • From Superman to Man (1917) book cover
  • Five Smooth Stones: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics) book cover
  • Unthinkable Sins: Book 1 book cover
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Authors

Authors with:

20 authors with more than one book:

  • 5 - Sabra Waldfogel
  • 4 - James McBride
  • 4 - Alice Walker
  • 4 - Embassie Susberry
  • 3 - Alyssa Cole
  • 3 - Naomi Finley
  • 3 - Londyn Skye
  • 2 - Laila Ibrahim
  • 2 - Doug Peterson
  • 2 - Colson Whitehead
  • 2 - Sue Monk Kidd
  • 2 - Mary Monroe
  • 2 - David Canford
  • 2 - Marlon James
  • 2 - Clare Dundas
  • 2 - Dickie Erman
  • 2 - Michael Edwin Q.
  • 2 - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
  • 2 - Stephenia H. McGee
  • 2 - Kendra Queen

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Series & Titles

Standalone vs Series

Popular Words

Words used 3 times or more:

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Series in the chart

  • Salis House Plantation (Book 1, Book 3, Book 2, Book 4)
  • The Loyal League (Book 2, Book 1, Book 3)
  • The Livingston Legacy (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3)
  • The Underground Railroad (Book 3, Book 2)
  • The Neighbors Series (Book 1, Book 3)
  • The Low Country Series (Book 1, Book 2)
  • Ironwood Plantation Family Saga (Book 1, Book 3)
  • The Color Purple Collection (Book 2)
  • The Dark Star Trilogy (Book 1)
  • Abiding Love (Book 2)
  • The Plantation Series (Book 1)
  • Women Spies (Book 2)
  • Witching Savannah (Book 4)
  • The Cost of Love Series (Book 1)
  • The Lumbee Indian Saga (Book 2)
  • BWWM Westerns (Book 1)
  • The Edenville Series (Book 2)
  • A Wyattsville Novel (Book 3)

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