African American Popular Fiction Writers

This is only a sampling of the many African American authors whose works are available through the Onondaga County Public Library. For additional books by these and other authors, visit your local library or check the catalog.

OCPL's Beauchamp Branch, located at the corner of Salina and Colvin Streets, has one of the county's most extensive collections of African American writers. Please call Beauchamp Branch at (315) 435-3395 for more information.

Author Index: A - B | C - D | E - F | G - H | I - K | L - M | N - P | R - S | T - Y

Author last names beginning with A:

Rochelle Alers

• Careless Whispers
• Della's House of Style
• Gentle Yearning
• Happily Ever After
• Harvest Moon
• Heaven Sent
• Hidden Agenda
• Just Before Dawn
• Love Letters
• No Compromise
• Private Passions
• Reckless Surrender
• Summer Magic
• Vows

Robin Hampton Allen

• Breeze
• The Promise

Bridget Anderson

• All Because of You
• A Kwanzaa Keepsake
• Lost to Love
• Rendezvous
• Reunited
• Soul Mates

Tina McElroy Ansa

• Baby of the Family
• The Hand I Fan With
• Ugly Ways
• You Know Better

Sterling Anthony

• Cookie Cutter

Mechelle Avey

• A Lifetime Loving You

B:

Frankie Y. Bailey

• Death's Favorite Child

Michael Baisden

• The Maintenance Man
• Men Cry in the Dark

Nikki Baker

• In the Game
• The Lavender House Murder
• Long Goodbyes
• The Ultimate Exit Strategy

James Baldwin

• Another Country
• Giovanni's Room
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• If Beale Street Could Talk

Allen B. Ballard

• Where I'm Bound

Toni Cade Bambara

• Gorilla, My Love
• Those Bones Are Not My Child

Steven Barnes

• Blood Brothers
• Charisma
• Firedance
• Iron Shadows
• Lion's Blood

Karen Grigsby Bates

• Plain Brown Wrapper

Angela Benson

• Between the Lines
• For All Time
• The Nicest Guy in America

Bertice Berry

• Redemption Song

Venise T. Berry

• All of Me
• Colored Sugar Water
• So Good

Eleanor Taylor Bland

• Dead Time
• Done Wrong
• Gone Quiet
• Keep Still
• Scream in Silence
• See No Evil
• Slow Burn
• Tell No Tales
• Whispers in the Dark

David Bradley

• The Chaneysville Incident

Connie Briscoe

• Big Girls Don't Cry
• A Long Way from Home
• Sisters and Lovers

Niobia Bryant

• Admission of Love
• Three Times a Lady

Anita Richmond Bunkley

• Balancing Act
• Girlfriends

Loure Bussey

• Images of Ecstasy
• Most of All
• Nightfall

Octavia Butler

• Bloodchild
• Clay's Ark
• Kindred
• Parable of the Sower
• Parable of the Talents
• Wild Seed

Adrianne Byrd

• All I've Ever Wanted
• Love's Deception
• Say You Love Me