Fiction

Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown's mom asks Easy to make sure her baby's okay, and Easy promises to find him. His first day on the case, Easy comes face-to-face...

It's always an adventure whenever Maya "Peach" Calloway is on the brink of becoming someone new. After surviving a prison sentence that taunted her sanity daily, Maya has successfully rebuilt her life brick by hard-won brick. Through sheer willpower,...

"Tolani Akinola is a gifted, powerful new voice in American fiction."--Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans "A warm, smart, hilarious, delicious, riveting" (Curtis Sittenfeld) debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties...

"Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen's writing."-- Ali Hazelwood Because life's too short, and mean girls ain't sh... Jazmyn Payne fled her hometown--and the fatphobes who made her life hell- the minute she graduated high school. Growing...

The call of summer, sisterhood, and hearts in need of healing bring two best friends and their college-age daughters to Napa Valley, California's breathtaking wine country--where a long-held secret threatens to forever alter their relationships . . ...

For readers of Vanessa Miller, Sheila Williams, Victoria Christopher Murray and Tracy Chevalier, the story of an unconventional woman who overcame adversity to create enduring tributes in stone to her race and times. The life of pioneering Black...

One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsOne of The Center for Fiction's 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while...

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.In...

A global soccer star's epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death. Gilbert Chevalier's life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable...

A riveting, dark, and layered thriller that cuts through the glamorous fa?ade of the publishing world to expose the true cost of ambition. Some stories are too dangerous to tell, especially when they're your own. Addison Comstock is a literary icon,...

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming.No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white oppression--where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do...

Most Anticipated Book of 2026: People "Take What You Can is so brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart.... Love is utterly bewildering, and nobody writes about it better than Naima Coster."--Catherine Newman, New York...