Each year the Detroit Public Library publishes a theme-based African American booklist.
2026 African American Booklist theme is “If This World Were Mine, Romance and African American Writers” Download the 2026 booklist here:
2025 African American Booklist: “Voices Heard: African American Young Adult Authors
2023 African American Booklist: “Beyond the Kitchen: The Culinary Legacy of African Americans
2022 African American Booklist: “The Ties That Bind: African Writers and the Black Diaspora
2021 African American Booklist: African American Theatre: An Historical Review
2020 African American Booklist: African Americans in Politics: 150 Years
2019 African American Booklist: Inventing Lives Black Women Writing Our Story
2018 African American Booklist: Knowing and Teaching: African American Children’s Literature
2017 African American Booklist: Detroit’s 1967 Rebellion: The Fifty Year Aftermath
2016 African American Booklist: Writing the River: Black Life Stories
2015 African American Booklist: The Broadside Press Legacy of Dudley Randall
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