Fiction

A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. These stories serve as windows into diverse communities while inviting readers of all backgrounds to engage with and appreciate the richness of our cultures. --Edwidge Danticat, from the foreword ...

A powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity...

One of the Gardin women must navigate a season rich with unexpected challenges in the follow-up to The Gardins of Edin, a heartwarming story about love, forgiveness, new beginnings, and what it takes to get there. Martha Gardin is a mess, and no one...

From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who's forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless international cartel--and...

"A debut of enormous ambition" spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil (Nathan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water) Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en...

His cello made him famous. His father made him a target. Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and talent, and the loving support of his father's girlfriend,...

"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly. . . . Hurston believed in the transformative power...

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A National Bestseller Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize One of The Washington Post's Best Books of 2024 An NPR Best Book of 2024 An Elle Best Book of 2024 A Boston Globe Best Book of...

A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women.A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman falls into a hypocritical crew of white Christian YouTube influencers...

A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity. New Stockholm, a metropolis like any other across North America, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile...

Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own vulnerable limits - and maybe beyond - in this enthralling, knife-edged thriller from NAACP Image Award-winning author Omar Tyree...