Black Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors You Need to Read

Parable of the Sower

By Octavia E. Butler

Dhalgren

By Samuel R. Delany

Futureland

By Walter Mosley

Skin Folk

By Nalo Hopkinson

Mumbo Jumbo

By Ishmael Reed

The Broken Earth Series

By N.K. Jemisin

Who Fears Death

By Nnedi Okorafor

Dark Matter

By Sheree R. Thomas

Redemption in Indigo

By Karen Lord

The Good House

By Tananarive Due

Redwood and Wildfire

By Andrea Hairston

The Palm-Wine Drinkard

By Amos Tutuola

The Ballad of Black Tom

By Victor LaValle

Children of Blood and Bone

By Tomi Adeyemi

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

By Marlon James

Freshwater

By Akwaeke Emezi

The Deep

By Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

Everfair

By Nisi Shawl

Beasts Made of Night

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

By Kwame Mbalia

The Lesson

By Cadwell Turnbull

Rosewater

By Tade Thompson