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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos. In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr....

Where the Wildflowers Grow

Where the Wildflowers Grow

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of...

Island Queen

Island Queen

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest...

Fire Sword and Sea

Fire Sword and Sea

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! From Vanessa Riley, acclaimed author of Queen of Exiles, comes a sweeping, immersive saga based on the life of the...

An Arcane Inheritance

An Arcane Inheritance

A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist. Warren University has stood amongst the ivy elite for centuries, built on the bones―and forbidden magic―of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the...

A Cup of Quiet

A Cup of Quiet

From award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a beautiful picture book about the special bond between a child and grandparent. When the squeal of tires and thrum of Grandpa’s hammer fill...

Stronger Than

Stronger Than

Renowned author Nikki Grimes and debut picture book writer Stacy Wells (Choctaw) lend their resonant voices to award-winning artist E. B. Lewis’s (Lenni Lenape) rich watercolors in this story of...

The Intentions of Thunder

The Intentions of Thunder

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2025

A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry. The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential...

Moon Witch, Spider King, Book 2

Moon Witch, Spider King, Book 2

From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy.

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Book 1

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Book 1

In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing...

Cool Machine, Book 3

Cool Machine, Book 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of Harlem Trilogy. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin...

On Morrison

On Morrison

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by award-winning novelist and Harvard professor Namwali Serpell. Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has...

The Great Mann

The Great Mann

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions....

The Faithless, Book 2

The Faithless, Book 2

In the second installment of C.L. Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca’s throne and to face the consequences...

The Sovereign, Book 3

The Sovereign, Book 3

The Sovereign brings princess Luca and soldier Touraine together one last time in the thrilling conclusion to C. L. Clark’s beloved queer political fantasy trilogy. Luca is the new queen...

The Unbroken, Book 1

The Unbroken, Book 1

On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women—a princess and a soldier—will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...

The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women

A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into...

The Fifth Season, Book 1

The Fifth Season, Book 1

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. This...

The City We Became, Book 1

The City We Became, Book 1

Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a “glorious” story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York...

The World We Make, Book 2

The World We Make, Book 2

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth. All is not well in the city that never...

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

A gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes...

The Hospital at the End of the World

The Hospital at the End of the World

From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a near future where artificial intelligence runs the world, involving a...

Remote Control

Remote Control

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor....

An Unkindness of Ghosts

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth...

Son of the Morning

Son of the Morning

A steamy paranormal romance set in the Black South—a bold new foray that takes us on a journey of magic and fantasy, from the whispering creeks outside the city of...

A Little Kissing Between Friends

A Little Kissing Between Friends

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster...

The Old Drift

The Old Drift

1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at...

The Furrows

The Furrows

From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss. I don’t...

Sorrowland

Sorrowland

A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees...

The Reformatory

The Reformatory

A gripping, page-turning horror novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where...

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf

Set in the blockbuster and award-winning universe of League of Legends: Arcane and written by award-winning author C. L. Clark, discover a thrilling epic fantasy novel where Ambessa Medarda truly...

Model Home

Model Home

Welcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where...

Far from the Light of Heaven

Far from the Light of Heaven

A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson. The colony ship...

The Perishing

The Perishing

A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in...

Dawn, Book 1

Dawn, Book 1

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When...

Imago, Book 3

Imago, Book 3

After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity — before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a...

Adulthood Rites, Book 2

Adulthood Rites, Book 2

After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . ....

Destroyer of Light

Destroyer of Light

The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett’s Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth,...

Harmattan Season

Harmattan Season

Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I don’t leave my place much these days… Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much―least of all trouble―but...

Score, Book 2

Score, Book 2

A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician. You never forget your first love. Isn’t that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She...

Reel, Book 1

Reel, Book 1

Neevah Saint is ready for the spotlight. After months as an understudy, this is her night to shine. She never imagined he would be in the audience. Canon Holt. Famous...

The Merciless Ones, Book 2

The Merciless Ones, Book 2

The epic, hotly anticipated sequel to the instant bestseller The Gilded Ones about a girl with the power to remake her world—or destroy it. It’s been six months since Deka...

The Eternal Ones, Book 3

The Eternal Ones, Book 3

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become one? Mere weeks after confronting...

The Gilded Ones, Book 1

The Gilded Ones, Book 1

The start of a bold and immersive fantasy series about identity, power, and rebellion, following a girl recruited into a deadly army after being cast out of her village. Sixteen-year-old...

I Live to Serve the Witch

I Live to Serve the Witch

“I only know of true love because of the witch.” Ceciline lives to serve her Mistress—the wise, warm, and mysterious witch who raised her. Together, they live a peaceful life...

I, Medusa

I, Medusa

A captivating villain story reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote...

Exiled by Iron, Book 2

Exiled by Iron, Book 2

The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head…and the young woman caught in between comes...

Forged by Blood, Book 1

Forged by Blood, Book 1

A brilliant new voice brings us a brilliant new epic fantasy novel: Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythology—full of magic and emotion and...

The Poisons We Drink

The Poisons We Drink

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has...

Charmed and Dangerous

Charmed and Dangerous

A teen mystic will do anything to solve a series of love-related magical mishaps plaguing her high school, including fake dating her boss’s daughter, in this charming sapphic romance. Magic...

The Maid and the Crocodile

The Maid and the Crocodile

A romantic standalone fantasy set in the world of Raybearer, from New York Times bestselling author Jordan Ifueko. The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start...

The Genie Game

The Genie Game

The start of a thrilling new middle-grade series from Jordan Ifueko, author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy Raybearer. Valentine Adesanya has two missions: 1) become a Feared and...

The Last One, Book 1

The Last One, Book 1

Explosive and enthralling romantasy debut from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Howzell Hall… Thrown into a desolate land of sickness and unnatural beasts, Kai wakes in the woods with...

The Cruel Dawn, Book 2

The Cruel Dawn, Book 2

A god’s wrath is unforgettable. Her love, even more dangerous. Kaivara Megidrail was once worshipped as the Grand Defender of Vallendor―until betrayal, punishment, and exile left her Diminished. Now, the...

I Don’t Wish You Well

I Don’t Wish You Well

A teen investigative podcaster decides to dig into the truth behind a grisly murder spree that rocked his hometown five years ago, but soon discovers that this cold case is...

Where the Wildflowers Grow

Where the Wildflowers Grow

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of...

Our Sister’s Keeper

Our Sister’s Keeper

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It’s a wealthy all-Black Free Town―untouched by white oppression―where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband...

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

A cozy, romantic fantasy from award-winning author Alechia Dow. Darling is the most talented―and unusual―Guardian to get a chance at winning the coveted once-in-a-generation Mortal Outcome Council mentorship. Getting the...

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family. When Papi Ramon, the...

Burn Down, Rise Up

Burn Down, Rise Up

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. For over a year, the Bronx has been...

On Witness and Respair: Essays

On Witness and Respair: Essays

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From...

We Don’t Swim Here

We Don’t Swim Here

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother...

We Came to Welcome You

We Came to Welcome You

A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread, We...

Assembly

Assembly

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment....

The Zorg

The Zorg

In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a...

The Wilderness

The Wilderness

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the...

Theft

Theft

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young...

Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2025

The striking sophomore poetry collection from award-winning author Tiana Clark. Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love with this lyrical poetry collection that explores topics as expansive as...

People Like Us

People Like Us

People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with...

O Sinners!

O Sinners!

An engrossing novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, where a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who...

Palaver

Palaver

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor and drinks his nights...

Lonely Crowds

Lonely Crowds

A riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early ’90s art world in New York City, where only...

King of Ashes

King of Ashes

King of Ashes is a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger...

Great Black Hope

Great Black Hope

A gripping debut from an electrifying new voice about an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a...

The Edge of Water

The Edge of Water

Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and...

Dead and Alive

Dead and Alive

A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist...

The Catch

The Catch

A darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother...

This Kind of Trouble

This Kind of Trouble

A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family. In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with...

Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet

Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet

An original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship between race and the Internet has changed in his three...

The Undefeated

The Undefeated

An ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN’s The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life...

Big

Big

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of joyful acceptance, from award-winning creator Vashti Harrison.

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Take My Hand

Take My Hand

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done...

Kin

Kin

An unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy....

Transcendent Kingdom

Transcendent Kingdom

A powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

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Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2023

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging. “We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow...

American Negra

American Negra

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part...

A Woman of Endurance

A Woman of Endurance

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear...

Jordan’s Perfect Haircut

Jordan’s Perfect Haircut

Celebrate a Black boy’s first haircut in this joyful book from Sharee Miller. Jordan loves his hair: soft like a cloud, regal like a crown. He doesn’t want a haircut...

American Street

American Street

In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou...

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