Fiction

Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In...

"Doesn't miss a romantic beat . . . McCoy expertly crafts a well-balanced love triangle between empathetic and passionate characters--and delivers plenty of comic relief in the form of Zora's lovable matchmaking grandmother." --Publishers Weekly, Starred...

In the final novel of the Liminals, a found family of Black superheroes has one last chance to save the world.After traveling back in time to rescue his fostered daughter, Taggert has returned to the present and found himself in his favorite place: up...

An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life. --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a...

Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind... New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s. Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with...

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedomBy fall of 1863, Union forces...

Here are three things you should know about my husband: 1. He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado. 2. He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy. Which is significant because . . . 3. On New...

Tyriek White did not come to play. He is doing something for New York narratives I've never seen, and really never imagined. This novel is so New York--so, so New York--yet so deeply southern on lower frequencies. It's astonishing. --Kiese Laymon, author...

National bestselling author Kiki Swinson's novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters--and an unsparing portrayal of Southern struggling, lying, betraying . . . and dying. Now everything is on the line as a female firefighter...

It's time for SAC Gaines, also known as Hot Shot, to turn up the heat on the Inglewood 13s and get the vengeance he seeks for his family. Will he be able to maintain his professionalism without letting his emotions override the task at hand? Turned Up is...

Follow Phantom, Inaya, Lox, and Sahnai as they seek to discover what their hearts really want. After a rocky start, Phantom and Inaya had fallen for each other. But now, Phantom is in Miami, and Inaya decides to make her own choices and live her own...

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected...