Fiction

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR... SO FAR by The New Yorker For readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism,...

The road to romance can be filled with second thoughts and second guesses, and in Essence(R) bestselling author Grace Octavia's captivating new novel, one woman can't quite make peace with her choices. . . Atlanta celebrity wedding planner Rachel Winslow...

The acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.When five-year-old Clara Bynum drowns in the...

A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their post-war freedom 'Remarkable' David Dabydeen In the years just after the American revolution, London was the unlikely refuge for...

Go on a suspenseful and mystical ride in this twist-filled thriller about a father and daughter with supernatural abilities... Daddy's little girl is not all she claims to be. Ty Carter is at the prime of his career, making millions in Atlanta real...

A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God fearing south in the age of OnlyFans, by a breakout new Affrilachian writer, perfect for readers of The Other Black Girl and Luster "A new, dazzling,...

The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the...

Two classic Westmoreland novels from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson WHAT A WESTMORELAND WANTS He's been biding his time, and now the perfect opportunity has arrived for Callum Austell to pursue the ultimate object of his affections...

From the same author that brought you the Flint series comes a new town . . . a new drama. Treasure Hernandez is back with her second street series, chronicling both sides of Baltimore's black market. Derek Fuller is the head detective of a Baltimore...

In the turbulent times when cops are portrayed as the enemy of the people, Detective Chip Christopher is maneuvering on the blurred blue line between racism and due diligence in order to do his job of investigating Turn; a young black man, with a sketchy...

Kennedy Mitchell is brilliant, beautiful and ... tired of being the only Black woman in the room.Two years ago, Kennedy was plucked from the reception desk and placed in the corporate boardroom in the name of diversity. Rather than play along, she and...

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it's always been--a love song. Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she...

As a painter travels the world and creates his art, he also mourns the death of his Queen, his wife. He is secluded from the world and finds an escape through the drawings in his work. Not until he gets an unexpected knock at his door does his life take...

Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors--provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction. The...

Isabel Preston spent her teenage years with a mother who struggled to pay the bills in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fueled with anger, frustration, resentment and pain in her heart, Isabel loves nothing...