Fiction

A woman enlists a charming commitment-phobe to give her flirting lessons, only to discover their “practice dates” may lead to real love.

She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.

A tale of community, resilience, and secrets set in a small town, where a seemingly ordinary grocery store is the backdrop for extraordinary lives.

A story about what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us and how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love.

Nate and his younger brother attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest—proving something to themselves and to each other.

A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from a struggling writer's POV.

When the men in their lives become unreliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship.

When Tia overhears a conversation between her mother and her aunt, she goes on a quest to uncover a secret her mother has kept for nearly two decades.

The acclaimed short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice among the contemporary canon of fiction.

A stunning novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

Spanning decades and continents, this dazzling epic is about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.

An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories and long-lasting life decisions.

A story around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

A deeply honest story that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole.

Myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a skilled mercenary is hired to find a mysterious, missing child.

From literary London to Jamaica’s sugarcane plantations, this is a story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.

A novel that asks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves.

This story follows a forbidden union between two enslaved men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their lives.

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to racism.

Drayton writes about the intersection of personal experiences and the broader culture and historical ramifications of American racism and global white supremacy.

The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system.

A mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and her move from body positivity to body liberation.

A memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love. Danielle shares how she grew up and grew wise—and the lessons she’s carried from those days to these.

The memoir of the “trailblazing” (People), rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, the iconic dancer, singer, spy, and Civil Rights activist.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace presents simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life—experience the freedom of being truly yourself.

Timely, inspiring, and filled with Harris’s trademark practical advice, Lead to Win is for anyone looking to influence and lead others to make positive change.

A legendary NBA player and beloved teammate shares his hard-earned wisdom about finding your true purpose and mastering your inner game.

A book about how to tackle fear–that everlasting hater–and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams.

From the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your own terms.

The poignant true story of an emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.

This uplifting collection of letters offers advice to young men on how to navigate the challenges of the world and empowers them to reach their true potential.

Harrowing, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant, The Master Plan is a memoir for this moment, proving that every person is capable of doing great things.

From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes an extraordinary memoir of grief, and one woman’s drive to thrive in the face of loss.

An intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators.

This collection is a brilliant look at our current cultural moment—sharp with timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her unforgettable voice.

Edward candidly shares how as a Black, gay, working-class refugee, he found in fashion not only a home, but the freedom to share with people the world as he saw it.

The Color Purple breaks the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, and carries readers on a journey of transformation, redemption, and love.

W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism and to chart a path forward against oppression.

This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. 

The first novel to address prejiduce and colorism among Black Amerians—a book of undiminished power about the role of skin color in America.

The story of a man’s futile resistance to the erasure of his Igbo traditions by British forces and his despair as his community succumbs to a powerful new order.

The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee’s novel—a powerful fictional critique of capitalism that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison.

The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an

early civil and women’s

rights pioneer.

A compact volume of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader—Frederick Douglass.

The tale follows the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely

accused of treason.

A complex and moving examination of the question of race and what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color.

A masterwork of speculative fiction and a hilarious satire of America’s obsession with race. It asks "what would happen if all black people in America turned white?"

The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that is centered around a Black woman who easily passes as white.

Plunge into the concerns, anxieties, hopes, and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem—and America.

The stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of black women in America.

Told through a series of vignettes, Cane is about the varied lives of African Americans living in the rural South and urban North.