Fiction
Harlem Rhapsody
She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A tale of community, resilience, and secrets set in a small town, where a seemingly ordinary grocery store is the backdrop for extraordinary lives.
This Great Hemisphere
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.
Dixon, Descending
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.
Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)
A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from a struggling writer's POV.
The Wedding Date
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance.
Waiting to Exhale
When the men in their lives become unreliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship.
And So I Roar
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.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The acclaimed short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice among the contemporary canon of fiction.
The Vanishing Half
A stunning novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
Fifty Words for Rain
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.
Red at the Bone
An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories and long-lasting life decisions.
Such a Fun Age
A story around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Hell of a Book
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.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a skilled mercenary is hired to find a mysterious, missing child.
The Fraud
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.
The Late Americans
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.
The Prophets
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.
Nonfiction
Black American Refugee
Drayton writes about the intersection of personal experiences and the broader culture and historical ramifications of American racism and global white supremacy.
Legacy
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.
The Body Liberation Project
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.
The Ugly Cry
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.
Fearless and Free
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
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.
Lead to Win
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.
Letters to a Young Athlete
A legendary NBA player and beloved teammate shares his hard-earned wisdom about finding your true purpose and mastering your inner game.
Professional Troublemaker
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.
More Than Enough
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 Beauty in Breaking
The poignant true story of an emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.
Letters to a Young Brother
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.
The Master Plan
Harrowing, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant, The Master Plan is a memoir for this moment, proving that every person is capable of doing great things.
The Urgent Life
From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes an extraordinary memoir of grief, and one woman’s drive to thrive in the face of loss.
Black Love Matters
An intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators.
Running While Black
A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry for more inclusivity.
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
This collection is a brilliant look at our current cultural moment—sharp with timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her unforgettable voice.
A Visible Man
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.
Classics
The Color Purple
The Color Purple breaks the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, and carries readers on a journey of transformation, redemption, and love.
The Souls of Black Folk
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.
Fences
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 Blacker the Berry . . .
The first novel to address prejiduce and colorism among Black Amerians—a book of undiminished power about the role of skin color in America.
Things Fall Apart
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.
Devil on the Cross
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 Light of Truth
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an
early civil and women’s
rights pioneer.
The Portable Frederick Douglass
A compact volume of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader—Frederick Douglass.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The tale follows the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely
accused of treason.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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.
Black No More
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?"
Passing
The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that is centered around a Black woman who easily passes as white.
Amiable with Big Teeth
Plunge into the concerns, anxieties, hopes, and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem—and America.
The Women of Brewster Place
The stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of black women in America.
Cane
Told through a series of vignettes, Cane is about the varied lives of African Americans living in the rural South and urban North.
Poetry
Owed
A book about how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant.
Golden Ax
Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
Plantains and Our Becoming
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging amidst Black identity and personhood.
Black Girl, Call Home
A love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women’s intellectual history, feminism, and activism.
The Study of Human Life
An acclaimed poet addresses issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood.
bone
The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection reflect on a particular life honed to their essence—so clear and pared-down, they become universal.
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes’ seventh collection explores how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling.
God's Trombones
Inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and eloquence of the spirituals.
Minor Notes, Volume 1
An initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from understudied and supremely gifted African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Complete Writings
This volume collects both Wheatley’s letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions.
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
An anthology of war songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life in this body of creative work.
