General Fiction

The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance--Zora Neale Hurston and Langston HughesIn 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a...

Blends the Moses of the Old Testament with Moses of black folklore and song to create a powerful novel of the persecution of slavery, the dream of freedom, and the redemption of the faithful.

From Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow--comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A TIKTOK BOOK CLUB PICK"Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers." -- New York Times Book Review"A vibrant debut novel . . . Babalola is incisively funny, capturing the kick and...

Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery.   Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret...

Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Like Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and...

New edition of Delany's classic pre US Civil war slavery tale which follows an escaped slave who tries to ignite insurrection against the de-humanizing institutions of depravation. New edition with a new introduction. Delany's tale of Blake, an escaped...

The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.A murder and a case of mistaken...

The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alice Walker's iconic modern classic. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, now in a beautiful Penguin Vitae edition...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian,...

Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A New York Times Notable Book - This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young...

2021 National Book Award Finalist 2022 Carnegie Medal Fiction Longlist A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need to Read This June On Entertainment Weekly's Must List One of The NY Post's Best Summer...

BOOK OF THE MONTH DECEMBER PICK * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK CLUB FEBRUARY PICK * MARIE CLAIRE BOOK CLUB MARCH PICK * MOST ANTICIPATED BY ELLE, TODAY (ACCORDING TO GOODREADS), THE MILLIONS, SHEREADS, AND REAL SIMPLE * RECOMMENDED BY REFINERY29, SHONDALAND,...

Named in USA Today's 5 books not to miss, and New York Post's The best new books to read From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey--named one of USA Today's 100 Black Novelists and Fiction Authors You Should Read--comes his final work: an...

This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural...