• Best Books by Black Queer Writers - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Best Books by Black Queer Writers - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • Best Books by Black Queer Writers - The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
  • Best Books by Black Queer Writers - Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy: Book 1) by Marlon James
  • Best Books by Black Queer Writers - B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy

Best Books by Black Queer Writers, recommended by Robert Jones Jr.

The novels of James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Wallace Thurman and James Early Hardy bring the America of the last two centuries vividly to life. Marlon James brings us a fantasy trilogy set in ancient Africa. Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets—a love story set on a plantation in the American South—talks us through his choices of the best books by Black queer writers.