Fiction

Dark, Southern gothic tale of homicide detective Raven Burns, with a complicated past and a desperate case to solve. Black Girls Lit recommends the first book, A Killing Fire to crime fiction and mystery lovers and fans of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn."...

Jane Smith discovered seventeen years ago as a child, badly burned and barely alive, has spent most of her life in Canal Care and Rehabilitation Center forced to endure multiple surgeries and attempts by authorities to learn what happened to her so long...

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedomBy fall of 1863, Union forces...

Beware of the company you keep.K'wan's urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new...

Sometimes to truly know a person, you have to read between the lines. Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home, and the only Black employee at her...

Destiny might be the end of you . . .Frank Morris was born in the desperation of a tenement in New York City's Little Italy. He is orphaned and adopted by the boss of a powerful NY crime family.As a veteran of the Korean war, inmate of Alcatraz...

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer.Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild...

"Meet the future of African literature" (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this "gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane" (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is...

Destiny might be the end of you . . .Frank Morris was born in the desperation of a tenement in New York City's Little Italy. He is orphaned and adopted by the boss of a powerful NY crime family.As a veteran of the Korean war, inmate of Alcatraz...

A twisty, voice-driven thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Jessica Knoll, in which no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead in the Bronx--except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a...

The author of The Secret Women tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines' legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the epic romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and...