General Fiction

A playwright must grapple with her difficult year and writer's block while falling for the single dad living next door in this emotional debut novel from Ashley Jordan. Eve Ambroise may be a rising star playwright, but her personal life is falling part...

"Solitaria is a gem." --Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments For fans of Fernanda Melchor and Tove Ditlevsen, a raw, propulsive novel by an award-winning Afro-Brazillian novelist about a Black mother and daughter who work as...

The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this "immersive...engaging" (Kirkus Reviews) fantasy from the Grand Master Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson. Veycosi, in training as a griot (a...

The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller, Hell of a Book People Like Us is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in...

As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America's character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She...

One of USA Today's 15 Books You Should Read This SummerOne of Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Hot New Summer Reads The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book People Like Us is Jason Mott's...

A harrowing story of sexual abuse, privilege and trauma.

Meet Black British expat Greg Abimbola - a seemingly mild-mannered Russian language teacher with terrifying secrets - in this stunning mystery set in Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges: Agatha Christie meets John le Carré. Greg Abimbola is many things. He's...

PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST NEW BOOKNAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEGOODREADS CHOICE NOMINEEAUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEARINDIE NEXT PICK This paperback edition includes an unpublished, previously-cut scene from MASQUERADE, with author commentary, and a reading group...

Two former camp counselors whose hearts remained entwined reunite to face their unspoken feelings and the secret that divided them in this soul-stirring second-chance romance about finding the courage to claim what fate had always intended, from the...

Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a California native and her family make a fresh start in small-town Texas--and find trouble just beneath the promising surface in this powerful novel for...