General Fiction

Magnificent stories about Caribbean immigrants navigating the emotional terrain of girlhood, displacement, longing, and identity across continents. Layaway Child is a luminous debut short story collection by award-winning writer Chanel Sutherland that...

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek. "One of the great novelists of the last 100 years." --Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo In the present day, a Black American expat to Rome named...

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...

Yesterday Harrington has always lived under the weight of other people's expectations-her adoptive mother's rules, society's gaze, the ghosts of a past she doesn't fully know. Aubrey Baptiste knows what it means to stay when every dream tells you to go...

A magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world. Don't you want to help them?A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026 - A them Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of...

In December 1941, Amos and Samuel Johnson, brothers from Chicago's Southside, enlist in the US Army, one from a sense of duty, the other seeking adventure and an escape from his family's expectations. But the segregated Army is slow to use Black...

In December 1941, Amos and Samuel Johnson, brothers from Chicago's Southside, enlist in the US Army, one from a sense of duty, the other seeking adventure and an escape from his family's expectations. But the segregated Army is slow to use Black...

What if the man you built your life around wasn't who you thought he was - and the one who sees you most clearly is the one you're not supposed to want?Dr. Angelia "Angie" Thomas has spent her entire adult life collecting the right pieces: a thriving...

In the underworld of the drug games, even father and son may be led to face off. Never let the left hand know what the right hand is doing... it was a lesson Rome Johnson learned the hard way. On top of the world and seemingly in full control of his...

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,...

A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory from "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) horror author Neena Viel, I'll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor--known as the original Welfare...

Malcolm Sealy is a man shaped by structure, discipline, and restraint. A former Army soldier newly relocated to Texas, he moves through life with intention-never rushing, never taking more than what's freely offered.When he meets her, a devoted mother...