General Fiction

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...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."--Jesmyn WardA Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of...

Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut. Her search begins with an ending.... The master...

On the first day of her honeymoon a young woman inadvertently discovers that she's a descendant of a pod of mermaids once revered for their unrelenting disruption of the slave trade across the Atlantic. As the tensions rise between the remaining mermaids...

This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows three Black gay millennial men looking for love, friendship, and professional success in the Motor City. Suddenly jobless and single...

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. It's 1957, and...

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts "a glorious fantasy" (Neil Gaiman) -- a story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City, in the final book of the Great Cities Duology. ...

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books.If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to...

A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel's beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, penned by an all-star cast of authors such as Sheree Renée Thomas and Nikki Giovanni. T'Challa faces the gods of his parents. Vampires stalk Shuri and a Dora...

This "exuberant celebration of Black women's joy as well as their achievements" (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and...

Babalola's writing shines whether she's writing parry-riposte banter or fresh, evocative interiority. -- New York Times Book ReviewBabalola's hilarious romance debut will have you laughing out loud and reconsidering first impressions. -- BuzzfeedBreakout...

Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel. When the windshield of his Chevy Impala shatters in a dark diner parking lot in...

ONE OF TEEN VOGUE'S 25 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS THEY CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS YEARONE OF BETCHES' 22 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEARAs a fan of Grey's Anatomy (and Chicago Med!), I couldn't put down On Rotation, and you won't be able to, either. Shirlene...

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola...

"This feel-good, empowering rom-com will blow you away, guaranteed." --Sarah Smith, author of Simmer Down A delicious debut rom-com about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup. Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time...