Fiction

A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator. "A riot of language that's part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure...

A Washington Post Notable BookWhen a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried,...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz...

Reverend Curtis Black is back again in the New York Times bestselling series by Kimberla Lawson Roby. Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . . Two years ago, to everyone's...

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes--an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. A bracing meditation on fame and...

The classic novelization of one of Broadway's most enduring and beloved musicals, updated with a beautiful new cover.Maria is young and innocent and has never known love--until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has...

When a billionaire hotelier and political operator attempts to pit his three daughters against one another, a brutal struggle for primacy begins in this modern-day take on Shakespeare's King Lear. Set in contemporary India, where rich men are gods while...

Powerful and unflinching, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a stark portrait of black experience in late nineteenth-century America and remains relevant to this day. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...

The return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture.After seven years of silence, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns with a characteristically eclectic...

This gripping, darkly funny debut thriller from acclaimed screenwriter Scott Frank is an L.A. story with a little bit of [Elmore] Leonard, a little bit of Day of the Locust, and a whole lot of earthquakes" (Interview). [R]eally good . . . hit me like a...

What begins as one woman's search for her own artistic courage unravels into a stunning look into what jazz music can teach out about our search for the truest version of ourselves. For decades, seasoned players on the scene have spoken in whispered...

2019 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association An "urgent and heartrending novel about an America on the brink" (Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood), They Come in All Colors follows a biracial teenage boy who finds...

Five signs a cat is in heat: Rubs against anything male Coos over kittens Presents her assets as often as possible Gets easily distracted Loses interest in assassinations Kill me now. This is going to be hell. The third book in this purrfectly...

You thought it was over? You were wrong.Kat is broke, so when she's offered a job as the mayor's bodyguard, she can't resist. It seems a simple enough job, until someone tries to kill her rather than the mayor.At the same time, an incredibly valuable...

"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James"Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce...