Fiction

There's a saying that if you come from my part of town, you're from around the way. Urban Books bestsellers Treasure Hernandez and Marcus Weber bring readers a fast-paced look at the lives of some street-smart women who think they know it all. Do they...

Stranded on an alien planet, two astronauts must battle deadly elements and each other to recover a reserve shuttle built for one Black Star is a debut graphic novel by Eric Anthony Glover, based on his original unproduced screenplay, and illustrated by...

Barbadian folklore meets superheroes in this Afro-Caribbean fantasy adventure story Hardears is an Afro-Caribbean fantasy-adventure graphic novel by Matthew Clarke and Nigel Lynch. The story takes place in an alternative world on Jouvert Island; a...

A fresh and electrifying collection of stories, poems, and essays from across the African continent.Many people in the world today see those who do not look like them, or who speak differently as being separate; as "other." Relations challenges the human...

A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick!A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today Bustle Buzzfeed Goodreads Nerdist io9 WBUR Polygon The New Scientist Dragon Award Finalist!In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi...

Wise, riveting, and full of surprises, Anywhere You Run will keep you up past your bedtime and stay with you long after the book is closed. --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps SixFrom the award-winning author of All...

A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...

An intimate and electrifying new book of essays on joy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights. Ross Gay has made delight and joy his signature subject, and in Inciting Joy he expands on his ongoing study. For Gay, the knowledge...

Four friends; Lena, who is engaged to a basketball superstar, Denise, who is hoping that she will be the first in her family to graduate college, Freedom, who lives up to her name and Carmen, who needs to work on her self-esteem--lean on each other...

Barbadian folklore meets superheroes in this Afro-Caribbean fantasy adventure story--now in paperback Hardears is an Afro-Caribbean fantasy adventure graphic novel by Matthew Clarke and Nigel Lynch. The story takes place in an alternative world on...

Having kidnapped her twin sister's newborn right out the womb and leaving her once beloved fiancé for dead, the Detroit born rebel's tragic fate is practically sealed. Mentally drained and on the run from reality, Kenya has no options left, and she is...

When her son died, Shannon Kind's whole world fell apart. Literally. She wakes in a brutal but fantastic landscape, to learn that the flow of time and the fate of a world are in her hands. Maybe she can make it better. First, she has to survive. SHE'S...

Less than three weeks from the moment 34-year-old Rhapsody Blue first set her eyes on 21-year-old Malcolm Washington, her life has been turned upside down. It was lust at first sight, and Rhapsody isn't going to let young Malcolm leave her presence...

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers. For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next...

Dylan Monroe, our favorite shopaholic, is back! She's three months pregnant and madly in love with the father of her child, sexy heavyweight champion, Angel. The only problem is the long-legged Victoria's Secret model standing in the way of getting him...

Three Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da Hood Series. Get It, Get It! by Ms. Michel Moore: Monica was conceived on a pile of dirty clothes in the corner of a trap house. Cursed...