170 Books Published by Akashic Books — View an Alphabetized List

Click for more detail about Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh by Thomas Glave
Click for more detail about False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K’wan
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Click for more detail about I Am a Promise by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Click for more detail about Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean by Peekash Press
Click for more detail about Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about The Accidental Hunter (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
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Click for more detail about Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
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Click for more detail about Black Lotus by K’wan
Click for more detail about Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises by Miles Marshall Lewis
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Click for more detail about Conduit (Black Goat) by Khadijah Queen
Click for more detail about Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
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Click for more detail about Lost Canyon by Nina Revoyr
Click for more detail about Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse
Click for more detail about Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook: Delicious Meals Made with Whole, Organic Ingredients from the Marley Kitchen by Ziggy Marley
Click for more detail about John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James
Click for more detail about Pressure Makes Diamonds by Valerie Graves
Click for more detail about Tales of the Out & Gone by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Jefferson Bible by Percival Everett
Click for more detail about Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about The Game Don’t Change The Players Do… by Mazaradi Fox
Click for more detail about You Have to Fucking Eat (Go the Fuck to Sleep #2) by Adam Mansbach
Click for more detail about Bronx Biannual No. 2 by Miles Marshall Lewis
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Click for more detail about (sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book by Otis Redding
Click for more detail about Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez
Click for more detail about Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez
Click for more detail about The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life by Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Click for more detail about God Carlos by Anthony C. Winkler
Click for more detail about Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir by Elizabeth Nunez
Click for more detail about Southland by Nina Revoyr
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Click for more detail about Atlanta Noir by Tayari Jones
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Click for more detail about Around Harvard Square by Christopher John Farley
Click for more detail about The Family Mansion by Anthony C. Winkler
Click for more detail about The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) by Kola Boof
Click for more detail about Mouths Don’t Speak by Katia D. Ulysse
Click for more detail about The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé
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Click for more detail about The Lunatic by Anthony Winkler
Click for more detail about Getting It Right by Karen E. Osborne
Click for more detail about The Hungered One: Short Stories (Renegade Reprint Series) by Ed Bullins
Click for more detail about Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature) by Miles Marshall Lewis
Click for more detail about Seed by Mustafa Mutabaruka
Click for more detail about Black Music by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about Black Orchid Blues by Persia Walker
Click for more detail about The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about Tales by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics by Tim McLoughlin
Click for more detail about Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland
Click for more detail about Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen
Click for more detail about Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism by Chuck D
Click for more detail about My Dog Romeo by Ziggy Marley
Click for more detail about Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes
Click for more detail about The Cocaine Chronicles by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon
Click for more detail about Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about Haiti Noir 2: The Classics by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave
Click for more detail about Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez
Click for more detail about New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett by Percival Everett
Click for more detail about Lagos Noir by Chris Abani
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Click for more detail about Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir) by Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni
Click for more detail about Beulah Hill by William Heffernan
Click for more detail about A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
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Click for more detail about New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about To Funk and Die in L.A. by Nelson George
Click for more detail about Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir) by E. J. Olsen
Click for more detail about Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike
Click for more detail about Black Lotus 2: The Vow by K’wan
Click for more detail about A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Percival Everett and James Kincaid
Click for more detail about Accra Noir by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
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Click for more detail about Brooklyn Noir by Tim McLoughlin
Click for more detail about Go De Rass To Sleep: (A Jamaican Translation) by Adam Mansbach
Click for more detail about So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival by Kwame Dawes
Click for more detail about We Matter: Athletes and Activism by Etan Thomas
Click for more detail about On the Way Back by Montague Kobbé
Click for more detail about African by Peter Tosh
Click for more detail about Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir) by Colin Channer
Click for more detail about New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition by Naomi Jackson
Click for more detail about Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) by Patricia Smith
Click for more detail about The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
Click for more detail about Caught Up by Shannon Holmes
Click for more detail about Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
Click for more detail about As Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni
Click for more detail about Respect: A Children’s Picture Book by Otis Redding
Click for more detail about All or Nothing by Preston L. Allen
Click for more detail about Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes
Click for more detail about Iron Balloons: Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop by Colin Channer
Click for more detail about Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha by Melvin Van Peebles
Click for more detail about The Lost Treasures Of R&B (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
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Click for more detail about The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
Click for more detail about A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan) by Norman Kelley
Click for more detail about Music Is in Everything by Ziggy Marley
Click for more detail about Memphis Noir by Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill
Click for more detail about Loving Donovan by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about Makeda by Randall Robinson
Click for more detail about Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America by Larry E. Sullivan
Click for more detail about Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus and Elizabeth Terzakis
Click for more detail about The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy): A Children’s Picture Book by Paul Simon
Click for more detail about Limbo by Sean Keith Henry
Click for more detail about 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 by Adam Mansbach
Click for more detail about Trinidad Noir by Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason
Click for more detail about The Darkest Hearts by Nelson George
Click for more detail about Seriously, Just Go to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
Click for more detail about The Duppy by Anthony C. Winkler
Click for more detail about Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head by Alex Wheatle
Click for more detail about Party: A Mystery by Jamaica Kincaid
Click for more detail about New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about Little John Crow by Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley
Click for more detail about Kemosha of the Caribbean (paperback) by Alex Wheatle
Click for more detail about Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat) by Amatoritsero Ede
Click for more detail about Sunfail by Steven Savile
Click for more detail about Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Click for more detail about The Girl with The Golden Shoes by Colin Channer
Click for more detail about The Angels’ Share by Garfield Ellis
Click for more detail about I Love You Too by Ziggy Marley
Click for more detail about A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
Click for more detail about Bivouac by Kwame Dawes
Click for more detail about The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread by Doctor Dread
Click for more detail about She’s Gone by Kwame Dawes
Click for more detail about Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions by Etan Thomas
Click for more detail about Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean by Peekash Press
Click for more detail about H.N.I.C. by Albert “Prodigy” Johnson
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about I Disappeared Them: A Novel by Preston L. Allen
Click for more detail about Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth by Tim McLoughlin
Click for more detail about H.N.I.C. by Albert “Prodigy” Johnson
Click for more detail about Swing by Miasha
Click for more detail about The Cocaine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles) by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon
Click for more detail about A Simple Distance by K. E. Silva
Click for more detail about Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen
Click for more detail about Tampa Bay Noir by Colette Bancroft
Click for more detail about An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Click for more detail about Song for Night: A Novella by Chris Abani
Click for more detail about The Lost Treasures of R&B (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
Click for more detail about Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about Providential by Colin Channer
Click for more detail about eel on reef (Black Goat) by Uche Nduka
Click for more detail about What Is Hip-Hop? by Eric Morse
Click for more detail about The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business by Lowell Hawthorne
Click for more detail about The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) by Nelson George
Click for more detail about Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
Click for more detail about Zero O’Clock by Christopher John Farley
Click for more detail about Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat
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Click for more detail about Nairobi Noir by Peter Kimani
Click for more detail about Changers Book Two: Oryon by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper
Click for more detail about Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Click for more detail about Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D by Chuck D