Fiction

Growing up can be hard. Life can be hard! I Think I Will Just Be Me is a story about a boy named Brennan, growing up to learn that we all have choices to make-choices about what we eat, where we go, and how to navigate scary things. The best option: be...

Four lives...three relationships...one real love. What relationship will remain and which one will crumble? Tiffany Tate works hard for the life she has--one that others would kill for--the only thing missing is a ring and a husband, which she...

A #1 New York Times bestseller! Sarah J. Maas's brand-new CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing...

Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, and more! Nominated for an NAACP Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction!Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming-of-age...

J. California Cooper is the author of novels, six collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Her book Homemade Love was the winner of the American Book Award in 1989, and she has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year. She has also received...

New York Times bestselling author and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, tells a chilling tale of lost love, dark family secrets, and hard-won redemption.Mara Reed has been stirring up trouble since she...

New York Times bestselling author and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, tells a chilling tale of lost love, dark family secrets, and hard-won redemption.Mara Reed has been stirring up trouble since she...

In this captivating crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's...

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong--not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in...

In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural...

Good for them. But when will things be good for me? Cynthia Thomas has spent a lifetime on the sidelines, watching everyone else's lives blossom with marriage and babies. All she's ever wanted was to experience those joys for herself. But, when she...

There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it. The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they...