Fiction

Preslaysa Williams, author of the "emotionally stirring debut" A Lowcountry Bride (Oprah Daily), returns to the Lowcountry with a heartwarming friends to lovers story about the courage to fall in love again. Avila Rogers' mother kicked her out...

A young journalist, reeling from loss, investigates a mysterious cult in the California redwoods, only to be drawn in by its charismatic leader in this addictive novel that asks why people give up control and what it takes, ultimately, to find one's...

Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay's first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through...

"The most profound terror is rooted in love--the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in peril. Justin C. Key's work is a cold knife through a hot heart, a surgical blade unleashing gouts of searing fear."--Cory Doctorow, author of Red Team...

The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick When ten-year-old...

Breath of Life is a collection of the works of author and poet LH Moore, whose history- and Afrofuturism-inspired short stories, poetry, and essays move between and blur the lines between horror, science fiction, and fantasy. In the short story "Roots...

A "[d]eeply satisfying" [The New York Times Book Review] story of a father who has committed an unbelievable crime and a daughter who must then fight to save her own life. "Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms...Beneath it lie...

An afrofuturistic graphic novel that's X-Men meets Attack on Titan from the creators at YouNeek Studios (Iyanu: Child of Wonder, Malika: Warrior Queen)! The Asiri Volume 1 begins an epic science fantasy about an ancient, advanced West African...

--Includes "Incident at Bear Creek Lodge," winner of the World Fantasy Award --Selected for the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List --"Rumpus Room" selected as finalist for a 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction"[A] master class in horror...

The latest in writer and visual artist Renee Gladman's ever-expanding body of imaginative investigation is a sui generis novel of queerness and art-making, philosophy and sex. The narrator of My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who...

Doll Seed by Michele Tracy Berger is a dazzling debut collection of speculative short fiction. The stories span horror, fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism, but are always grounded in very real characters and beautifully rendered, distinctive...