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A Novella and Stories
by Danielle Evans
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by Natasha Brown
Published Jun 2026
Read ReviewsRemember—words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a "powerful new voice in British Literature" (The Sunday Times).
by Rivers Solomon
Published Sep 2025
Read ReviewsWelcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
by Diane Oliver
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsA 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 Jones
by Destiny O. Birdsong
Published Jan 2023
Read ReviewsIn this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives.
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Published Oct 2022
Read ReviewsA young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.
by Natasha Brown
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsA woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer" (Bernardine Evaristo).
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsUrgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsInternational-award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each other.
Published as The First Woman in the UK.
by Zadie Smith
Published Oct 2020
Read ReviewsZadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
by Edward P. Jones
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsIn fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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