162 New Books by Black Authors Coming Out Soon
Also Check Out the Books Published in the Past two Months.

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature

by Kimberly W. Benston
Coming Aug 05, 2025

And Then Came the Blues

by Katrina Brownlee
Coming Aug 05, 2025

Battle for Sky Kingdom (Future Hero #4)

by Remi Blackwood
Coming Aug 05, 2025

Place for Us

by James Ransome
Coming Aug 05, 2025

People Like Us

by Jason Mott
Coming Aug 05, 2025

Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry

by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Coming Aug 05, 2025

Everything But Typical

by Margeaux Weston
Coming Aug 05, 2025

The Broken King

by Michael Thomas
Coming Aug 05, 2025

Positive Obsession

by Susana M. Morris
Coming Aug 05, 2025

The Space Cat

by Nnedi Okorafor
Coming Aug 12, 2025

You’ve Got a Place Here, Too

by Ebony LaDelle
Coming Aug 12, 2025

Family Threads

by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Coming Aug 12, 2025

Homegrown

by Amber O’Neal Johnston
Coming Aug 12, 2025

Road to the Country

by Chigozie Obioma
Coming Aug 12, 2025

Mounted

by Bitter Kalli
Coming Aug 19, 2025

We Go Slow

by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Coming Aug 26, 2025

New New Me

by Helen Oyeyemi
Coming Aug 26, 2025

Resting Bitch Face

by Taylor Byas
Coming Aug 26, 2025

Nervous

by Jen Soriano
Coming Aug 26, 2025

The Child from Dindefello Falls

by Aminta Dupuis
Coming Sep 01, 2025

Nubia

by L.L. McKinney
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Great Birthday Surprise!

by Tanya Wright
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Moko Magic Carnival Chaos

by Tracey Baptiste
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Night Watch

by Kevin Young
Coming Sep 02, 2025

The New Book

by Nikki Giovanni
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Change Is Gonna Come

by Sam Cooke
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Moko Magic Museum Mayhem

by Tracey Baptiste
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Champion

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Not That Bad

by Roxane Gay
Coming Sep 02, 2025

Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.

by Robert Livingston
Coming Sep 09, 2025

God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible

by Esau McCaulley
Coming Sep 09, 2025

It Was the Way She Said It

by Terry McMillan
Coming Sep 09, 2025

Let’s Get Together

by Brandy Colbert
Coming Sep 09, 2025

Candace, the Universe, and Everything

by Sherri L. Smith
Coming Sep 09, 2025

Little Movements

by Lauren Morrow
Coming Sep 09, 2025

Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback)

by Jerald Walker
Coming Sep 09, 2025

A Flea For Justice

by Valerie Bolling
Coming Sep 16, 2025

The Student Debt Crisis

by Jamal Eric Watson
Coming Sep 16, 2025

Bunheads, ACT 2

by Misty Copeland
Coming Sep 16, 2025

Rules of Resilience

by Valorie Burton
Coming Sep 16, 2025

Octavia E. Butler

by Octavia Butler
Coming Sep 16, 2025

Double Tax

by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Coming Sep 16, 2025

Gray Dawn

by Walter Mosley
Coming Sep 16, 2025

What Makes You Happy?

by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Coming Sep 23, 2025

Salon Saturday

by Janelle Harper
Coming Sep 23, 2025

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze

by Derrick Barnes
Coming Sep 23, 2025

Successful Failure

by Kevin Fredericks
Coming Sep 23, 2025

30 Days to Crush Chaos

by Manny Arango
Coming Sep 23, 2025

Jump and Find Joy

by Hoda Kotb
Coming Sep 23, 2025

Family Feast!

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Coming Sep 23, 2025

Intentions of Thunder

by Patricia Smith
Coming Sep 30, 2025

Stronger in the Difficult Places

by Zoe Shaw
Coming Sep 30, 2025

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers)

by Clint Smith
Coming Sep 30, 2025

Hunting Ava

by Kiki Swinson
Coming Sep 30, 2025

Devin’s Gift

by Alana Tyson
Coming Sep 30, 2025

Two Appearances After the Resurrection

by Shane McCrae
Coming Oct 06, 2025

Flora La Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions

by Veronica Chambers
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Curlfriends (a Graphic Novel)

by Sharee Miller
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Fela

by Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery
Coming Oct 07, 2025

The Sunshine Queens

by Sherri Shepherd
Coming Oct 07, 2025

The Leaving Room

by Amber McBride
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Fever

by Bernice L. McFadden
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Song for Two Homes

by Michael Datcher
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Black Arms to Hold You Up

by Ben Passmore
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Jordan’s Perfect Haircut

by Sharee Miller
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Scammer

by Tiffany D. Jackson
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Archive of Desire

by Robin Coste Lewis
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Jax Freeman and the Tournament of Spirits

by Kwame Mbalia
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Last Chance Live!

by Helena Haywoode Henry
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Groove

by Bernice L. McFadden
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Heartsick

by Kristina Forest
Coming Oct 07, 2025

Mirroring Lincoln

by D. Amari Jackson
Coming Oct 08, 2025

Three or More Is a Riot

by William Jelani Cobb
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Together We Are Sunshine

by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Rhythms of Faith

by Claude Atcho
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Coach

by Jason Reynolds
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Beyonce a Who Was? Illustrated Biography

by Tyiana Combs
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Ring Shout

by P. Djèlí Clark
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Twins, But Different

by Porsche Thomas
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Searching for Mr. Johnson’s Song

by Ariel Vanece
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Fortress of Ambrose

by J. Elle
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Hell’s Kitchen

by Alicia Keys
Coming Oct 14, 2025

King of the Neuro Verse

by Idris Goodwin
Coming Oct 14, 2025

Ever Since We Small

by Celeste Mohammed
Coming Oct 16, 2025

Walk Me to the Distance

by Percival Everett
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Our Vicious Descent

by Hayley Dennings
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Reel Love

by Addie Woolridge
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Amazing Peace

by Maya Angelou
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Suder

by Percival Everett
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century

by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Who Was Katherine Johnson?

by Sheila P. Moses
Coming Oct 21, 2025

Dead and Alive

by Zadie Smith
Coming Oct 28, 2025

God Ain’t Blind

by Mary Monroe
Coming Oct 28, 2025

Amber Alert

by Kiki Swinson
Coming Oct 28, 2025

Everything’s Good

by Toni Chapman
Coming Oct 28, 2025

Swamp Man

by Donald Goines
Coming Oct 28, 2025

Who Is Beyonce?

by Kirsti Jewel
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Old Sleigh

by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Let’s Get Into It

by Davon Moseley
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Top Chef #6

by Kelly Starling Lyons
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Black-Owned

by Char Adams
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Shade Is a Place

by MaKshya Tolbert
Coming Nov 04, 2025

The Look (Signed Deluxe Edition)

by Michelle Obama
Coming Nov 04, 2025

A Golden Legacy

by Samuel P. Golden
Coming Nov 04, 2025

The Look

by Michelle Obama
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Queen Mother

by Ashley D. Farmer
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Cursed Daughters

by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Bitter Honey

by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
Coming Nov 04, 2025

Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy)

by Isis Asare
Coming Nov 11, 2025

Making Art

by Diana Ejaita
Coming Nov 18, 2025

Cursebound

by Saara El-Arifi
Coming Nov 18, 2025

I, Medusa

by Ayana Gray
Coming Nov 18, 2025

Beetlecreek

by William Demby
Coming Dec 02, 2025

Ghost Boys

by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Coming Dec 02, 2025

Catacombs

by William Demby
Coming Dec 02, 2025

Rosa Parks

by Shasta Clinch
Coming Dec 02, 2025

Abolition and the African American Story

by Patricia Williams Dockery
Coming Dec 09, 2025

Between Good and Evil

by Rochelle Alers
Coming Dec 16, 2025

Where There Is Love

by Shauntay Grant
Coming Dec 16, 2025

Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum

by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Coming Dec 16, 2025

Amanda Gorman

by L’Oreal Thompson Payton
Coming Dec 16, 2025

Caste in the Stars

by Leylah Attar
Coming Dec 16, 2025

The Race Track

by Kimberlé Crenshaw, et al.
Coming Dec 20, 2025

Black Hauntologies

by Kimberly W. Benston
Coming Dec 31, 2025

Black Refigurations

by Kimberly W. Benston
Coming Dec 31, 2025

Black Configurations

by Kimberly W. Benston
Coming Dec 31, 2025

Jackson Alone

by Jose Ando
Coming Jan 06, 2026

Not Without Laughter

by Langston Hughes
Coming Jan 06, 2026

Happy Habits for Successful Women

by Valorie Burton
Coming Jan 06, 2026

Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks

by Langston Hughes
Coming Jan 13, 2026

Slavery After Slavery

by Mary Frances Berry
Coming Jan 13, 2026

Basket Ball

by Kadir Nelson
Coming Jan 13, 2026

When It’s Darkness on the Delta

by W. Ralph Eubanks
Coming Jan 13, 2026

My Brown Boy

by Lesle Honore
Coming Jan 13, 2026

Melodies of the Weary Blues

by Langston Hughes
Coming Jan 20, 2026

Destiny of the Diamond Princess

by Sherri Winston
Coming Jan 20, 2026

No Way, Wash Day

by Adrienne Thurman
Coming Jan 20, 2026

Number Ones Only

by Ryan Press
Coming Jan 27, 2026

Burn Down Master’s House

Book Cover Unavailable

Burn Down Master’s House by Clay Cane

On Morrison

by Namwali Serpell
Coming Jan 27, 2026

Humboldt Cut

Book Cover Unavailable

Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick

Ex Dilemma

by Elle Wright
Coming Jan 27, 2026

God’s Colorful Easter

by Esau McCaulley
Coming Feb 03, 2026

What Do You Need?

by Lauren Wesley Wilson
Coming Feb 03, 2026

Mighty Macy

by Kwame Alexander
Coming Feb 03, 2026

Seven Million Steps: The True Story of Dick Gregory’s Run for the Hungry

Book Cover Unavailable

Seven Million Steps by Derrick Barnes

Nani and the Lion

by Alicia D. Williams
Coming Feb 03, 2026

Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

Book Cover Unavailable

Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate

Minor Notes, Volume 2

by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy
Coming Feb 03, 2026

Through Mom’s Eyes

by Sheinelle Jones
Coming Feb 10, 2026

Time for a Change

by Questlove and S. A. Cosby
Coming Feb 17, 2026

Four Eids and a Funeral

by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Coming Feb 17, 2026

Cleopatra

by Saara El-Arifi
Coming Feb 24, 2026

Kid X

by Tracey Baptiste
Coming Feb 24, 2026

Trouble at the Hair Salon

by Tanya Wright
Coming Mar 03, 2026

The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class

by Tracey Baptiste
Coming Mar 10, 2026

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

Book Cover Unavailable

Chain of Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi

Laws of Solomon

Book Cover Unavailable

Laws of Solomon by Eriq La Salle

Martyr Loser King

by Saul Williams
Coming Apr 07, 2026

Life of the Party

by Harmony Holiday
Coming Apr 21, 2026

Karen’s Surprise: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #12)

Book Cover Unavailable

Karen’s Surprise by Shauna J. Grant

Nephew

by MK Asante
Coming May 05, 2026