Mariner Books

An Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

57 Publications Found

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
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The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
The Crown’s Silence
Brooke N. Newman
Jan 2026
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Kings and Pawns
Howard Bryant
Jan 2026
The Wilderness
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
Sep 2025
An African History of Africa
An African History of Africa
Zeinab Badawi
Jan 2025
On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice
On a Move
Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins
Aug 2024
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
The Jazzmen
Larry Tye
May 2024
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Medgar and Myrlie
Joy-Ann Reid
Feb 2024
The Black Joy Project
The Black Joy Project
Kleaver Cruz
Dec 2023
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
The Last Folk Hero
Jeff Pearlman
Sep 2023
Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
Rickey
Howard Bryant
Jun 2023
Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
Let It Bang
RJ Young
Oct 2022
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Grace
Cody Keenan
Oct 2022
Harry Sylvester Bird
Harry Sylvester Bird
Chinelo Okparanta
Jul 2022
How to Survive America
How to Survive America
D.L. Hughley
Jun 2022
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Brian Broome
May 2022
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
White Lies
A. J. Baime
Feb 2022
Black Buck
Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
Jan 2022
Three Rooms
Three Rooms
Jo Hamya
Aug 2021
Dewey Defeats Truman
Dewey Defeats Truman
A. J. Baime
Apr 2021
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
The Man Who Sold America
Joy-Ann Reid
Aug 2020
The Street
The Street
Ann Petry
Jan 2020
The Color Purple
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Dec 2019
Friday Black
Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Oct 2018
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
The Best American Short Stories 2018
The Best American Short Stories 2018
Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor
Oct 2018
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
The Defender
Ethan Michaeli
Mar 2018
The Best American Sports Writing 2017
The Best American Sports Writing 2017
Howard Bryant
Oct 2017
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez
Apr 2017
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Fracture
Joy-Ann Reid
Sep 2016
Jubilee
Jubilee
Margaret Walker
Sep 2016
The Arsenal Of Democracy
The Arsenal Of Democracy
A. J. Baime
May 2015
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Aug 2013
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops
Terry Teachout
Oct 2010
The Temple of My Familiar
The Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker
Sep 2010
Go Like Hell
Go Like Hell
A. J. Baime
Jun 2010
Third Girl from the Left
Third Girl from the Left
Martha Southgate
Sep 2006
God’s Gym: Stories
God’s Gym
John Edgar Wideman
Aug 2006
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild
Dec 2005
Pushkin And The Queen Of Spades: A Novel
Pushkin And The Queen Of Spades
Alice Randall
May 2005
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
Brothers and Keepers
John Edgar Wideman
Jan 2005
Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman
Jan 2005
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Alice Walker
May 2003
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
May 2003
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
In Love & Trouble
Alice Walker
May 2003
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
Alice Walker
May 2003
Hoop Roots
Hoop Roots
John Edgar Wideman
Feb 2003
Rails Under My Back
Rails Under My Back
Jeffery Renard Allen
Mar 2001
Africans In America: America’s Journey Through Slavery
Africans In America
Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith,
Nov 1999
Two Cities: A Love Story
Two Cities
John Edgar Wideman
Sep 1999
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold’s Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Sep 1999
Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
John Edgar Wideman
Jul 1998
Sent for You Yesterday
Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman
Apr 1998
The Cattle Killing
The Cattle Killing
John Edgar Wideman
Sep 1997
And All Our Wounds Forgiven
And All Our Wounds Forgiven
Julius Lester
Jan 1996
Ugly Ways
Ugly Ways
Tina McElroy Ansa
Jan 1995
Baby of the Family
Baby of the Family
Tina McElroy Ansa
May 1991

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