African American Booklist

The Detroit Public Library has published its African American Booklist for more than 50 years. This bibliography provides a selected list of books by and/or about African Americans. The works of fiction and nonfiction for adults, children and young adults were reviewed and recommended by librarians of the Detroit Public Library.

2026 African American Booklist

If This World Were Mine: Romance and African American Writers

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2025 African American Booklist

Voices Heard: African American Young Adult Authors

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2024 African American Booklist

We Are Not Invisible: African Americans in the World of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy

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2023 African American Booklist

Beyond the Kitchen: The Culinary Legacy of African Americans

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2022 African American Booklist

The Ties that Bind: African Writers and the Black Diaspora

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2021 African American Booklist

AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE: An Historical Review

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2020 African American Booklist

African Americans in U.S. Politics: 150 Years

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2019 African American Booklist

Inventing Lives: Black Women Writing Our Story

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2018 African American Booklist

Knowing and Teaching: African American Children Literature

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2017 African American Booklist

Detroit's 1967 Rebellion: The Fifty-Year Aftermath

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2016 African American Booklist

Writing the River: Black Life Stories

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2015 African American Booklist

The Broadside Press legacy of Dudley Randall

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