Akashic Books

An Imprint of Akashic Books

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Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.

141 Publications Found

82nd Division
82nd Division
D.M. Aderibigbe
Dec 2025
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Dec 2025
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Aug 2025
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Edwidge Danticat
Jul 2025
Paradise Once: A Novel
Paradise Once
Olive Senior
Jun 2025
My Own Dear People
My Own Dear People
Dwight Thompson
Apr 2025
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
False Idols
K’wan
Jul 2024
I Disappeared Them: A Novel
I Disappeared Them
Preston L. Allen
Apr 2024
Tender Headed
Tender Headed
Olatunde Osinaike
Dec 2023
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
Sufferah
Alex Wheatle
Jul 2023
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
Tisa
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Jul 2023
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Tananarive Due
Apr 2023
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
The Kevin Powell Reader
Kevin Powell
Apr 2023
Music Is in Everything
Music Is in Everything
Ziggy Marley
Oct 2022
Now Lila Knows
Now Lila Knows
Elizabeth Nunez
Jun 2022
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Nov 2021
Cosmogramma
Cosmogramma
Courttia Newland
Nov 2021
Little John Crow
Little John Crow
Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley
Nov 2021
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set
Adam Mansbach
Oct 2021
The Reluctant King
The Reluctant King
K’wan
Sep 2021
My Dog Romeo
My Dog Romeo
Ziggy Marley
Jul 2021
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book
A River Called Time
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
Apr 2021
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejide
Mar 2021
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding
Mar 2021
Prayer for the Living
Prayer for the Living
Ben Okri
Feb 2021
Accra Noir
Accra Noir
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Dec 2020
Respect: A Children’s Picture Book
Respect
Otis Redding
Oct 2020
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (SABA)
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Sep 2020
Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay Noir
Colette Bancroft
Aug 2020
Addis Ababa Noir
Addis Ababa Noir
Maaza Mengiste
Aug 2020
The Darkest Hearts
The Darkest Hearts
Nelson George
Aug 2020
African
African
Peter Tosh
Jun 2020
Glorious
Glorious
Bernice L. McFadden
May 2020
The Freedom Artist
The Freedom Artist
Ben Okri
Feb 2020
Nairobi Noir
Nairobi Noir
Peter Kimani
Feb 2020
A Tall History of Sugar
A Tall History of Sugar
Curdella Forbes
Oct 2019
Black Lotus 2: The Vow
Black Lotus 2
K’wan
Oct 2019
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
New-Generation African Poets
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Jun 2019
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Bernice L. McFadden
Jul 2018
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir
Chris Abani
Jun 2018
Mouths Don’t Speak
Mouths Don’t Speak
Katia D. Ulysse
Jan 2018
An Unkindness of Ghosts
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Oct 2017
To Funk and Die in L.A.
To Funk and Die in L.A.
Nelson George
Sep 2017
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir
Tayari Jones
Jul 2017
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Trinidad Noir
Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni
May 2017
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (NNE)
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Apr 2017
Dance of the Jakaranda
Dance of the Jakaranda
Peter Kimani
Feb 2017
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
Frederick Douglass
Jan 2017
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook: Delicious Meals Made with Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
Ziggy Marley
Oct 2016
San Juan Noir
San Juan Noir
Mayra Santos-Febres
Oct 2016
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan
Bernice L. McFadden
May 2016
Even in Paradise
Even in Paradise
Elizabeth Nunez
Apr 2016
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU)
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Apr 2016
On the Way Back
On the Way Back
Montague Kobbé
Feb 2016
Tales
Tales
Amiri Baraka
Jan 2016
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The Angels’ Share
The Angels’ Share
Garfield Ellis
Jan 2016
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean
Coming Up Hot
Peekash Press
Nov 2015
Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition
Seriously, You Have to Eat
Naomi Jackson
Oct 2015
Providential
Providential
Colin Channer
Sep 2015
Lost Canyon
Lost Canyon
Nina Revoyr
Aug 2015
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Eight New-Generation African Poets
Kwame Dawes
Apr 2015
The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread
The Half That’s Never Been Told
Doctor Dread
Mar 2015
The Accidental Hunter (A D Hunter Mystery)
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan
Bernice L. McFadden
Feb 2015
The Lost Treasures of R&B (A D Hunter Mystery)
You Have to Fucking Eat (Go the Fuck to Sleep #2)
Drifting
Drifting
Katia D. Ulysse
Jul 2014
Go De Rass To Sleep: (A Jamaican Translation)
Go De Rass To Sleep
Adam Mansbach
Jun 2014
I Love You Too
I Love You Too
Ziggy Marley
Apr 2014
Mr. Loverman
Mr. Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo
Apr 2014
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir
Not for Everyday Use
Elizabeth Nunez
Apr 2014
Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith
Eric Charles May
Mar 2014
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics
Haiti Noir 2
Edwidge Danticat
Jan 2014
The Night of the Rambler
The Night of the Rambler
Montague Kobbé
Sep 2013
As Flies to Whatless Boys
As Flies to Whatless Boys
Robert Antoni
Sep 2013
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
Among the Bloodpeople
Thomas Glave
Jul 2013
The Family Mansion
The Family Mansion
Anthony C. Winkler
May 2013
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Preston L. Allen
May 2013
Nowhere Is a Place
Nowhere Is a Place
Bernice L. McFadden
Feb 2013
The Gospel According to Cane
The Gospel According to Cane
Courttia Newland
Feb 2013
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Patricia Smith
Nov 2012
God Carlos
God Carlos
Anthony C. Winkler
Sep 2012
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business
The Baker’s Son
Lowell Hawthorne
Sep 2012
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir)
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir)
Colin Channer
May 2012
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Adam Mansbach
Mar 2012
The Warmest December
The Warmest December
Bernice L. McFadden
Jan 2012
Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters
Bernice L. McFadden
Jan 2012
The Cocaine Chronicles
The Cocaine Chronicles
Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon
Nov 2011
Memphis Noir
Memphis Noir
Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill
Nov 2011
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
The Plot Against Hip Hop
Nelson George
Nov 2011
Boundaries
Boundaries
Elizabeth Nunez
Sep 2011
The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Adam Mansbach
Jun 2011
Black Orchid Blues
Black Orchid Blues
Persia Walker
Mar 2011
Wingshooters
Wingshooters
Nina Revoyr
Feb 2011
Haiti Noir
Haiti Noir
Edwidge Danticat
Dec 2010
Anna In-Between
Anna In-Between
Elizabeth Nunez
Sep 2009
John Crow’s Devil
John Crow’s Devil
Marlon James
Aug 2010
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say
Kwame Dawes
Jul 2010
Jesus Boy
Jesus Boy
Preston L. Allen
Apr 2010
Black Music
Black Music
Amiri Baraka
Jan 2010
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha
Melvin Van Peebles
Sep 2009
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home
Amiri Baraka
Jan 2009
The Hungered One: Short Stories (Renegade Reprint Series)
The Hungered One
Ed Bullins
Jan 2009
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
Abstraktion und Einfühlung
Percival Everett
Nov 2008
Trinidad Noir
Trinidad Noir
Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason
Aug 2008
Conduit (Black Goat)
Conduit (Black Goat)
Khadijah Queen
Jun 2008
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth
Brooklyn Noir 3
Tim McLoughlin
Jun 2008
The Age of Dreaming
The Age of Dreaming
Nina Revoyr
Apr 2008
The Duppy
The Duppy
Anthony C. Winkler
Jan 2008
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
E. J. Olsen
Nov 2007
All or Nothing
All or Nothing
Preston L. Allen
Nov 2007
Song for Night: A Novella
Song for Night
Chris Abani
Sep 2007
eel on reef (Black Goat)
eel on reef (Black Goat)
Uche Nduka
Sep 2007
Dog War
Dog War
Anthony Winkler
Jun 2007
The Lunatic
The Lunatic
Anthony Winkler
Jun 2007
The Girl with The Golden Shoes
The Girl with The Golden Shoes
Colin Channer
May 2007
She’s Gone
She’s Gone
Kwame Dawes
Feb 2007
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal)
Bronx Biannual No. 2
Bronx Biannual No. 2
Miles Marshall Lewis
Jan 2007
Tales of the Out & Gone
Tales of the Out & Gone
Amiri Baraka
Dec 2006
A Simple Distance
A Simple Distance
K. E. Silva
Oct 2006
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature)
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail
Chris Abani
Mar 2006
Iron Balloons: Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop
Iron Balloons
Colin Channer
Jan 2006
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics
Brooklyn Noir 2
Tim McLoughlin
Jun 2005
The Cocaine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)
The Cocaine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)
Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon
Apr 2005
Black Marks
Black Marks
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte
Jan 2005
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises
The Jefferson Bible
The Jefferson Bible
Percival Everett
Sep 2004
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir
Tim McLoughlin
Jul 2004
A History of the African-American People (Proposed)
A History of the African-American People (Proposed)
Percival Everett and James Kincaid
Apr 2004
Limbo
Limbo
Sean Keith Henry
Jan 2004
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Bandits & Bibles
Larry E. Sullivan
Jan 2003
Southland
Southland
Nina Revoyr
Jan 2003
A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan)
A Phat Death
Norman Kelley
Jan 2003
Beulah Hill
Beulah Hill
William Heffernan
Jan 2003
Seed
Seed
Mustafa Mutabaruka
Jun 2002

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