General Fiction

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and...

The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories...

PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD FINALIST   ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Slate - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel   Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school...

"The electrifying fiction debut that has been called 'a modern Mrs. Dalloway.'"--THE ATLANTIC "Mind-bending and utterly original."--Brandon Taylor "Slim in the hand, but its impact is massive."--Ali Smith One woman. One day. One decision. A blistering,...

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer...

The epic gay Civil War saga continues in this second installment in the award-winning Unmentionables book series. In All to Pieces you'll meet colorful new characters and revisit some of the characters you met in Book 1.Warning: Spoilers ahead if you...

From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mystery series, a riveting puzzle confronting the hidden secrets of class, race, family, and love.Can an amateur detective solve the cold case mystery of her lost father's...

Before there was E.L. James's 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane's Addicted. Once described as "the hottest paperback in the country" by the New York Times and now a major motion picture distributed by Lionsgate, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of...

Falling for the enemy never felt this good in the debut novel of LaQuette's Devereaux Inc. series. She's ruthless in business, but vulnerable in his arms. Trey Devereaux is out to prove her corporate mettle to her skeptical father. When she sees a...

A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders...

When Noire, a hip, Afro-wearing Ph.D. student, walks into Brown Betty Books, her righteousness kicks in to overdrive amid the self-identified talented tenth who wear their double degrees and five-hundred-dollar shoes like badges of honor. And then...

From the acclaimed author of Satisfied with Nothin' comes a searing and unsparing story of the unlikely bond between an African-American father and the teenager who killed his son, a tale of violent self-destruction reclaimed by the inexhaustible power...

This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics...

Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely,...

If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping). In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert...

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering bestselling novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all...