Fiction- General
Fiction- General
Sisters with a Side of Greens
"A charming novel about sisterhood, regrets, and second chances, [with] a peek into Southern comfort food. An utter delight from start to finish." ―Terah Shelton Harris, author of One Summer in Savannah Two strong-willed sisters fight their way to forgiveness in...
$16.99
Sex, Lies and Sensibility
“Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own. Thoughtful, hilarious, and smolderingly steamy.”—Kristina Forest, author of The Partner PlotTwo sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must...
$18.00
River Mumma
From the Giller-nominated author of Frying Plantain comes an exhilarating magical realist novel about a millennial Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a quest through the streets of TorontoAlicia has been out of grad school for months....
$27.00
The Reformatory: A Novel
A New York Times Notable Book“You’re in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can’t put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen KingA gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr....
$28.99
Redwood Court: Fiction
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New...
$28.00
Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel
In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers—one white, one Black—living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America’s all-too-familiar...
$19.99
The Rage Letters
An exhausted security guard dreams of home. A sculptor and a pothead have great sex -- in the shadow of wax ex-lovers. A diversity workshop devolves into a familiar nightmare. Throughout this deadpan collection, determined, damned, and triumphant characters appear...
$19.95
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars—and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed film...
$19.99
The Quality of Mercy
Winner, Outstanding Fiction Book Prize, National Arts Merit Awards (Zimbabwe) Shortlist, 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, the breathtaking conclusion to her multiple award-winning City of Kings trilogy, including The Theory of Flight and The...
$19.95
The Princess of Thornwood Drive
Two sisters are trapped on opposite sides of reality in this entrancing and deeply moving debut novel that weaves together a contemporary narrative with a parallel fantasy world. One year ago, a tragic car accident killed 22-year-old Laine’s parents and left her...
$16.00
Pride and Joy: A Novel
Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch’s sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back—from an author with a “razor-sharp, smart,...
$27.99
Perfect Little Lives: A Novel
"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man, on Someone Had to Do ItON ASHER LANE, SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KILLING FOR…Simone’s mother was murdered when she was thirteen. When her father was convicted,...
$17.99
The Partner Plot
Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor.To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out...
$18.00
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of...
$30.00
Ours: A Novel
“A beautifully-written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom.” —Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing HalfAn epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protectionIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams...
$32.00
The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Goddaughter
A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. With a brilliant mind and a fierce will...
$19.99
The Nubian’s Curse
A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an...
$29.99
No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
True friendship never ends. Best friends forever. That’s the vow Joy, Diane, Rochelle and Yvette made when they were children, and even in their mid-thirties, the friends have always been there for each other—through the highs and lows of life...
$17.99
No One Dies Yet
A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America...
$18.00
No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake...
$30.00
The New Naturals: A Novel
**A 2023 NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Notable Book and a BOSTON GLOBE Best Book of the Year**From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely novel—called "smart, witty" by the New York Times Book Review, "fascinating" by the Boston Globe, and...
$27.00
Neighbors and Other Stories
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari...
$27.00
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house....
$26.00
Ndima Ndima
From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters—and her community—through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood. From the red soil of her garden...
$19.99
Murder in Drury Lane
Portraying the true diversity of the Regency-era and the hidden intrigue of England’s abolitionist movement, this vibrant, inclusive new historical mystery from acclaimed author Vanessa Riley features an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided...
$27.00
Mulberry Street Stories
In this electric collection, Mary Slechta brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street— an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave the result of white flight, a tenuous foothold for Southern...
$19.95
The Most Secret Memory of Men: A Novel
A New York Times Best Book of 2023 and Longlisted for the National Book AwardA gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yambo Ouologuem.The first Sub-Saharan...
$19.99
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago."When a rich...
$27.99
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never endedFrom the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by...
$15.95
Mama Said: Stories
“A celebration of Black family life that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“The collection will reshape what you think about the region and the people that inhabit it.” —Debutiful“Surprising and revelatory. . . ....
$19.99