Fiction

This brilliant and hilarious novel is On the Road meets Catcher in the Rye in modern-day Los Angeles.One day Lou Brown decided to kill himself. But when he sat down to craft a suicide letter, the simple act of committing words to the page was like...

After a recently failed engagement, Phillip Gooden is burying himself in work at this therapy practice to avoid dealing with his problems. Dr. Gooden isn't the typical, dull therapist. He has some unusual ways of addressing his patients' concerns. From...

Karol and his wife are rising stars of the Polish community in London, but Karol is a ruthless entrepreneur whose fortune is built on the backs of his fellow countrymen. The Kulesza brothers, mentally unstable Igor and his violent brother Damian, dream a

Dark, Southern gothic tale of homicide detective Raven Burns, with a complicated past and a desperate case to solve. Black Girls Lit recommends the first book, A Killing Fire to crime fiction and mystery lovers and fans of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn."...

Jane Smith discovered seventeen years ago as a child, badly burned and barely alive, has spent most of her life in Canal Care and Rehabilitation Center forced to endure multiple surgeries and attempts by authorities to learn what happened to her so long...

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...

Beware of the company you keep.K'wan's urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new...

Sometimes to truly know a person, you have to read between the lines. Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home, and the only Black employee at her...

Destiny might be the end of you . . .Frank Morris was born in the desperation of a tenement in New York City's Little Italy. He is orphaned and adopted by the boss of a powerful NY crime family.As a veteran of the Korean war, inmate of Alcatraz...

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer.Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild...