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.

Date	Book	Author
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	Time Flies	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	Love and Marriage	Bill Cosby
December 30, 1990	Bo Knows Bo	Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap
November 17, 1991	Childhood	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	Days of Grace	Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
October 31, 1993	Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now	Maya Angelou
November 21, 1993	Secrets of a Sparrow	Diana Ross
July 31, 1994	Black Betty	Walter Mosley
July 31, 1994	Shadow of the Panther	Hugh Pearson
July 31, 1994	These Same Long Bones	Gwendolyn M. Parker
June 4, 1995	One by One From the Inside Out	Glenn C. Loury
November 19, 1995	The All American Skin Game	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	In Contempt	Christopher Darden with Jess Walter
December 1, 1996	Don't Block the Blessings	Patti LaBelle with Laura B. Randolph
March 16, 1997	Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen	Jervis Anderson
November 16, 1997	Book	Whoopi Goldberg
February 1, 1998	Paradise	Toni Morrison
March 1, 1998	Addicted	Zane (author)
November 28, 1998	For the Love of the Game: My Story	Michael Jordan
October 3, 1999	Yesterday, I Cried	Iyanla Vanzant
January 30, 2000	The Rock Says	Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Joe Laydon
September 24, 2000	Not a Day Goes By	E. Lynn Harris
December 31, 2000	Until Today!	Iyanla Vanzant
February 5, 2001	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Terry McMillan
September 9, 2001	Cane River	Lalita Tademy
September 9, 2001	Any Way the Wind Blows	E. Lynn Harris
November 18, 2001	Q	Quincy Jones
March 31, 2002	Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word	Randall Kennedy
June 8, 2002	The Emperor of Ocean Park	Stephen L. Carter
June 8, 2003	The Other Woman	Eric Jerome Dickey
October 12, 2003	Three Weeks in November	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	Quiet Strength	Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
October 21, 2007	My Grandfather's Son	Clarence Thomas
October 7, 2008	The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems	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
November 19, 2009	The Cartel 2	Ashley & JaQuavis
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	I Beat the Odds	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
November 12, 2012	The Cartel 4	Ashley & JaQuavis
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	One Nation	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
May 29, 2016	Hamilton: The Revolution	Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter
June 7, 2016	The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Book 1: Locker Hero	Rachel Renee Russell
June 26, 2016	I Almost Forgot About You	Terry McMillan
June 26, 2016	Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi
September, 2016	Year of Yes	Shonda Rhimes
November 3, 2016	The Sun is also a Star	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	Kindred (graphic novel)	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	The 1997 Masters: My Story	Tiger Woods with Lorne Rubenstein
May 7, 2017	Black Privilege	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	I Can't Make This Up	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	Little Leaders	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
September 26, 2023	Dork Diaries Book 15: Tales From a Not-So-Best Posh Paris Adventure	Rachel Renee Russell

See also

• American literature
• African-American literature
• Lists of The New York Times number-one books