Black 365 Banner
Black 365 Banner

FEATURED BOOKS

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
Quick view

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

$29.99
NPR SPRING PICK An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who...
Add to Cart
Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible (HC) (2025)

$30.00
A groundbreaking look at how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone. To many, the term...
Add to Cart
Plus Size Player #2 (PB) (2025)
Quick view

Plus Size Player #2 (PB) (2025)

$18.99
Julie Murphy's If the Shoe Fits meets Talia Hibbert's Take a Hint, Dani Brown--USA Today bestselling author Danielle Allen brings another steamy, witty novel about finding the perfect partner--and...
Add to Cart
Great Black Hope (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Great Black Hope (HC) (2025)

$28.99
"Incandescent...full of sentences I want to cut out and glue to my forehead." --Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr! "A novel of crime--with a gripping pace, propelled by a...
Add to Cart
King of Ashes (HC) (2025)
Quick view

King of Ashes (HC) (2025)

$28.99
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is...
Add to Cart
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors (HC) (2025)
Quick view

When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors (HC) (2025)

$32.00
Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history. Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the...
Add to Cart
High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy
Quick view

High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy

$30.00
The first book to unmask the hidden face of depression. If you look fine on the outside but don't feel fine on the inside, learn five tools to break the cycle of High Functioning Depression...
Add to Cart
The History of We (HC) (2025)
Quick view

The History of We (HC) (2025)

$18.99
An awe-inspiring picture book about the origin and advancement of humans, from author and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Nikkolas Smith. Fossil records show that the first humans were born...
Add to Cart
Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (HC) (2025)

$25.99
This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller,...
Add to Cart
Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (HC) (2025)

$28.00
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure Mark Twain's Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously...
Add to Cart
Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It (HC) (2025)

$27.99
From the creator of "a unified field theory of racism" (NPR's Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap Historically, Black...
Add to Cart
Minding the Wealth Gap: Our Playbook to Close It Together (HC) (2025)
Quick view

Minding the Wealth Gap: Our Playbook to Close It Together (HC) (2025)

$28.99
The US racial wealth gap is large, and it's compounding. It's time to close it. Minding the Wealth Gap shines a light on people doing this important work and explores how you can get involved too. ...
Add to Cart
Matriarch: A Memoir
Quick view

Matriarch: A Memoir

$35.00
A revealing personal life story like no other--enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering--and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood "You are Celestine," she said. She...
Add to Cart
Black Books Matter PRIDE T-Shirt (Wht)
Quick view

Black Books Matter PRIDE T-Shirt (Wht)

$28.00
PRE-ORDER:  Tee begins shipping June 19  Limited quantities Represent your love of Black books all year long with our PRIDE inspired tee.  !00% generous cotton unisex tee comes in...
Options

View all products

Black History Month Banner
Black History Month Banner

NEW BOOKS

BEST BOOKS of 2024

#BLACKBOOKSMATTER READING LIST

Our Black Books Matter reading list features an authentic and unapologetically Black perspective. Though this list is not exhaustive, we think it is a great place to start.

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - African Proverb

The New Jim Crow (PB)
Quick view

The New Jim Crow (PB)

$18.99
A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education--with a new preface by the...
Add to Cart
Between the World and Me Between the World and Me
Quick view

Between the World and Me

$26.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE...
Add to Cart
Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison Dream Big, Little One ( Little Leaders )
Quick view

Dream Big, Little One ( Little Leaders )

$8.99
This beautifully illustrated board book edition of instant bestseller Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire...
Add to Cart
The Warmth of Other Suns (PB) The Warmth of Other Suns (PB)
Quick view

The Warmth of Other Suns (PB)

$17.95
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize-winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the...
Add to Cart
The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye
Quick view

The Bluest Eye

$14.95
March 2024 Bookclub Selection NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity--and asks questions about race, class, and gender...
Add to Cart
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Quick view

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

$16.99
The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her...
Add to Cart
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (PB)
Quick view

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (PB)

$18.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our...
Add to Cart
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Quick view

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (PB)

$19.99
2016 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction Americans like to insist that we are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more...
Add to Cart
Every Little Thing: Based on the Song 'three Little Birds' by Bob Marley By Bob Marley and Cedella Marley, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Quick view

Every Little Thing: Based on the Song 'three Little Birds' by Bob Marley

$7.99
Now in board book, Every Little Thing brings Bob Marley's beloved song to life for a new generation. Every family will relate to this universal story of a boy who won't let anything get him...
Add to Cart
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Quick view

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

$32.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author...
Add to Cart
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
Quick view

Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment

$17.99
A New York Times bestseller!   A visit to Washington, DC's National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry's young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait.   When...
Add to Cart
All About Love: New Visions
Quick view

All About Love: New Visions (Bell Hooks Love Trilogy)

$15.99
"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her...
Add to Cart
Such a Fun Age
Quick view

Such a Fun Age

$26.00
A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter,...
Add to Cart
The Fire Next Time The Fire Next Time (Vintage Ed.)
Quick view

The Fire Next Time (Vintage Ed.)

$13.95
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding...
Add to Cart
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Quick view

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

$18.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America   This is NOT a history book.This is a book about...
Add to Cart

View all products

Banned Books Banner
Banned Books Banner

Recently Viewed Products

EXPLORE POPULAR ARTICLES

Read more articles

Enjoy our Podcast