Fiction

Sister Souljah returns to her beloved character Winter Santiaga in the captivating and heart-pounding sequel to instant #1 New York Times bestseller Life After Death. After suffering a horrifying, yet soul stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch...

"An extraordinary, necessary book from a brilliant writer. A new song of the earth."--Robert MacfarlaneFrom an exciting new voice in international literature, a profoundly moving memoir that explores the Black experience in the natural world and the...

The next feel-good read from acclaimed author Shauna Robinson, following a small-town fall festival struggling to get off the ground, but that might just offer the second chance we all need.Lauryn Harper had a plan. A high achieving, perfectly...

A sparkling debut novel about a woman who must figure out whether being creatively fulfilled is compatible with being happily married, and what it means to be a Black artist in one of the whitest parts of America. Thirty-something Layla Smart was raised...

The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel--The Accomplice--that combines the imaginative page-turning suspense of S. A. Cosby's books with the high-tension thrills of the Netflix blockbuster series Money Heist.In...

A collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die"...

A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone...

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAYNPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A vibrant coming-of-age story." -- Charmaine Wilkerson"I was completely immersed." -- Nita ProseFrom the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen's...

In this stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority--and soon finds a town that will...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former...

The Longest Bloom is a story of self-discovery and inspiration. Nearly any woman twenty to eighty can see themselves in Juliet's life. A teenager leaves rural Georgia to find adventure in San Francisco. A world-renowned painter struggles to balance...