General Fiction

WHEN THE HOWELL FAMILY MOVES INTO A HOUSE on Heckler Lane, it causes quite a stir around the small town of Sunny Cove, Pennsylvania. Elise Howell, a well-known cardio surgeon, has returned home after fifteen years to fill her recently deceased mother's...

A Southern small-town romance about the visibility of Black women's voices in country music, perfect for fans of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. "The best romance I've read all year." --The New York Times A New York Times...

When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her student loan company with the help of two mall coworkers--from the author of the "lethally witty" (The New York Times Book Review) The...

Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and...

This "thoroughly engaging" novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("[a] quiet masterpiece" --Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment. "One of the great...

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...

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...