Fiction

This powerful debut novel by an award-winning journalist explores the challenges of fatherhood for three generations of black men.   A beautiful, tragic and riveting work." Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness In a seamless transition to fiction, Pulitzer...

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.

"Dark Thirst" offers six vampire tales by some of today's most popular and up-and-coming African-American authors: Omar Tyree, Donna Hill, Monica Jackson, and others.

When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the island's African past and the...

This celebrated first novel by the lecturer and bestselling author of "The Maintenance Man" gives readers an African-American man's perspective on relationships, fatherhood, and interracial dating through the eyes of four childhood friends looking for...

From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed "one of America's best mystery writers" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell--he'd rather have his old life...

Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both "Dutchman "and "The Slave "are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and...

A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character "The Book of Other People" is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure,...

IMPORTANT NOTE: ONLY THE PAPER BACK EDITION IS PART OF THE EXCLUSIVE BLACK BOOKSTORE PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN.  NOT THE HARDCOVER. A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician from "a fantastic storyteller...

Publisher Marketing:From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force t's the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. "You're not out in the streets with...

From the two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year - NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Debut Literary Work"This is a tender, deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin, and how we might work to mend old wounds together."--ElleIn this stunning debut novel, four...