By Howard Rambsy II
1919: The Conquest (1913) by Oscar Micheaux
1951: Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
1970: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) by Chester Himes
1974: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) by Ernest Gaines
1977: Roots by (1976) by Alex Haley
1977: Black Samurai (1974) by Marc Olden
1985: The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
1986: Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
1989: The Women of Brewster Place (1982) by Gloria Naylor
1991: A Rage in Harlem (1957) by Chester Himes
1995: Waiting to Exhale (1992) by Terry McMillan
1995: Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) by Walter Mosley
1998: Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
1998: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996) by Terry McMillan
1999: A Lesson Before Dying (1993) by Ernest Gaines
2005: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
2008: Miracle at St. Anna (2003) by James McBride
2009: Push (1996) by Sapphire
2018: If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) by James Baldwin
2018: The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas
2018: Monster (1999) by Walter Dean Myers
2019: Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
2020: The Good Lord Bird (2013) by James McBride
2021: Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
2021: The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead