General Fiction

Soon to be a Broadway musical! With a book by John Ridley, music by Tariq Trotter, and choreography by Bill T. Jones The landmark comic satire that asks, "What would happen if all black people in America turned white?" It's New Year's Day 1933 in New...

"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation) It is 1969,...

Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and an instant USA Today bestseller! "Run away from the boy that gives you butterflies, he's going to break your heart." Morgan Atkins had been told...

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROMVanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington PostA stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmakerRelatively unknown during her life, the artist,...

Now a Lifetime movie event! From the NAACP Image award winner and national bestselling author of The Personal Librarian, a novel inspired by the seven deadly sins about a woman caught between an entertainment mogul with a shady past and his childhood...

Following the breakout success of his previous novel, "Freeman," Leonard Pitts, Jr. returns with an even more complex, suspenseful, and intricate story that takes on the past 45 years of US race relations through the stories of two veteran journalists, a...

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book AwardNew York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel...

Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . . Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married...

"I can't wait to see what Trice Hickman does next!" --Mary Monroe, "New York Times "bestselling author  Two couples, two unhappy spouses--one shocking solution. . .  Five years into her happy marriage, Geneva Mayfield is devastated to find that...

After overcoming the shock of her lottery win, things finally begin to turn around for Lena. As her life comes together, Lena notices that the things she has held dear are beginning to fall apart and she wonders if her life really has changed for the...

Award-winning author Olympia Vernon's third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic masterpiece that exhumes a horrific epoch from the annals of the American South. There is a menace in the woods of Bullock County, Mississippi, and not only for...

In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable...