#BlackLivesMatter

Black Fiction Authors on Print

Here's a list of black writers to support:

1) Angie Thomas
Notable works: The Hate U Give, On the Come Up
Instagram: angiethomas

2) Akwaeke Emezi
Notable works: Pet, The Death of Vivek Oji
Instagram: akwaekeemzi

3) Elizabeth Acevedo
Notable works: With the Fire on High, Clap When You Lane
Instagram: acevedowrites

4) Toni Morrison
Notable works: Beloved, The Bluest Eye

5) Alice Walker
Notable works: The Color Purple

6) Nicola Yoon
Notable works: Everything Everything, The Sun is Also a Star
Instagram: nicolayoon

7) Alex Wheatle
Notable works: Island Songs, Brixton Rock
Instagram: alexwheatle

8) Amanda Joy
Notable works: A River or Royal Blood
Instagram: amandajoywrites

9) Imbolo Mbue
Notable works: Behold the Dreamers

10) Brit Bennett
Notable works: The Mothers, The Vanishing Half
Instagram: britrbennett

11) James Baldwin
Notable works: Giovanni's Room, Go Tell It on The Mountain

12) Malorie Blackman
Notable works: Pig Heart Boy, Noughts and Crosses
Instagram: malorie_blackman

13) Toni Cade Bambara
Notable works: The Salt Eaters

14) Paul Beatty
Notable works: Tuff, The Sellout

15) Ta-Nehisi Coates
Notable works: The Water Dancer
Instagram: tanehisipcoates

16) Zora Neale Hurston
Notable works: Their Eyes Were Watching God

17) Tayari Jones
Notable works: Silver Sparrow, An American Marriage
Instagram: tayari (this account has been set to private at the time this was written)

18) Taiye Selasi
Notable works: Ghana Must Go
Instagram: taiye_entirely

19) Helen Oyeyemi
Notable works: What is Yours is Not Yours, The Icarus Girl

20) Jacqueline Woodson
Notable works: Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone
Instagram: jacqueline_woodson

21) Tomi Adeyemi
Notable works: Children of Blood and Bone
Instagram: tomiadeyemi

22) Oyinkan Braithwaite
Notable works: My Sister the Serial Killer
Instagram: oyinkanbraithwaite

23) Chigozie Obioma
Notable works: The Fisherman
Instagram: chigozieobiomaauthor

24) Ayobami Adebayo
Notable works: Stay with Me
Instagram: ayobamiadebayo (this account was set to private at the time this was written)

25) Dean Atta
Notable works: The Black Flamingo
Instagram: deanatta

26) Abi Daré
Notable works: The Girl with the Louding Voice
Instagram: abidare_author

27) Afia Atakora
Notable works: Conjure Women
Instagram: afiaatakora

28) Alexia Arthurs
Notable works: How to Love a Jamaican
Instagram: alexiaarthurs

29) Chinua Achebe
Notable works: Things Fall Apart

30) Wayétu Moore
Notable works: She Would Be King
Instagram: wayetu

Obviously, there's more. Instagram user and climate activist @itsecogal has a ultimate black reading list on her instagram (which is where I found some of these authors) so please check that out!!!