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Wench: A Novel
Wench: A Novel Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780061706547 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, ...
Take My Hand
Take My Hand Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337691 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A searing and compassionate new novel about a young Black nurse’s shocking discovery and the burning quest fo...
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup 9781476767345 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. An Important Contribution to the Birth of African American Literature The story that inspired the...
Happy Land
Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new n...
Balm: A Novel
Balm: A Novel Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780062318657 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins
Take My Hand
Take My Hand Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337714 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House
Black Barbie: The Story of Designer Kitty Black Perkins
Black Barbie: The Story of Designer Kitty Black Perkins Dinah Johnson 9780316579186 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette Hachette Book Group Celebrate the creator of the world’...
The Cutting Season: A Novel
The Cutting Season: A Novel Attica Locke 9780061802065 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire:“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a ...
A Taste for More
A Taste for More Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496743138 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a breathtaking saga spanning the final three decades of the Great Migration - from the Jim Crow south in r...
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins 9781538702741 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A passionate, magnetic memoir that explores writer and podcast host Nich...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel Suzetta Perkins 9781593094768 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baby drama and political scandal don’t mix in this sequel to Suzetta Perkins’s Behind the Veil...
Ex-Terminator: Life After Marriage
Ex-Terminator: Life After Marriage Suzetta Perkins 9781593091835 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens to those who are left behind in the turbulent breakup of failed love and roma...
Hey Black Child
Hey Black Child Useni Eugene Perkins 9780316360296 Nonfiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this cla...
Hey Black Child
Hey Black Child Useni Eugene Perkins 9780316360302 Fiction Anointed Inspirations Publishing Anointed Inspirations Publishing Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor reci...
Memories & Images: Selected Poems
Memories & Images: Selected Poems Useni Eugene Perkins 9780883782446 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Perkins reveals his personal development into his present philosophy as he recounts his ...
Aaron Slater, Illustrator
Aaron Slater, Illustrator Andrea Beaty 9781419753961 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams An uplifting story about the power of art, finding your voice, and telling your story even when you’re out ...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Betrayed: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Betrayed: A Novel (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593093624 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Nineteen years after she was raped, Mimi Bailey makes a desperate attempt to protect her se...
At the End of the Day: A Novel (Zane Presents)
At the End of the Day: A Novel (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593094096 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. At the End of the Day is the exhilarating, heart-pounding, and action-packed f...
Hollywood Skye (Zane Presents)
Hollywood Skye (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593095567 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When a young woman seeking fame and fortune falls into a con artist’s trap, she learns what Ho...
Silver Bullets (Zane Presents)
Silver Bullets (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593095581 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this sizzling, exciting novel, four women show that age is just a number by seeking out new...
For Your Consideration: Maya Rudolph
For Your Consideration: Maya Rudolph Nichole Perkins 9781683692232 Nonfiction Quirk Books Quirk Books For fans of the inimitable Maya Rudolph, this illustrated collection of humorous essays and fun ex...
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents)
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593094324 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Graham Peters’s wife of forty years suddenly dies, he finds himself unable to cope with h...
Deja Vu (Zane Presents)
Deja Vu (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593092597 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. As the former mistress of a notorious crime boss, Angelica Barnes struggles to lead a normal life—but...
Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent
Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent Lorisa Bates 9781645561255 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance This first edition of the action-packed urban series centers on a young Brooklyn hairstyl...
Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement
Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement Useni Eugene Perkins 9781933491134 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The Black Arts Movement spanned less than two decades, but left an unde...
In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People
In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People Natalie Renee Perkins and Hal Taussig 9781506485744 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Many of us have heard about the recently dis...
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence Useni Eugene Perkins 9780940975866 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. On a humid March night in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah made history. While thous...
Lilith, But Dark
Lilith, But Dark Nichole Perkins 9781945028144 Poetry Publishing Genius Press Publishing Genius Press Lilith, But Dark reveals a series of confessions and penances, exploring a southern black woman’s ...
Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago’s Black Struggle 1960-1975
Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago’s Black Struggle 1960-1975 Useni Eugene Perkins 9780883783061 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Rise of the Phoenix ""is a collection of personal ...
Nothing Stays the Same (Zane Presents)
Nothing Stays the Same (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593092863 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Combining suspense, high drama, and seduction, Nothing Stays the Same is about a man w...
Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth
Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth Useni Eugene Perkins 9780883782248 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A comprehensive exposition on Black youth, this st...
Black Fairy and Other Plays
Black Fairy and Other Plays Useni Eugene Perkins 9780883780770 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A series of short plays for young children that can be used as a teaching tool.
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
Family & Other Calamities: A Novel
Family & Other Calamities: A Novel Leslie Gray Streeter 9781662527616 Fiction Lake Union Publishing Amazon Publishing A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake become...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Team Green! (ADA Twist, Scientist The Why Files #6)
Team Green! (ADA Twist, Scientist The Why Files #6) Andrea Beaty 9781419770449 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams New York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty and neuroscientist Theanne Grif...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
The Appeal of Ebony Jones
The Appeal of Ebony Jones Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692123942 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing ...
One True Loves
One True Loves Elise Bryant 9780062982865 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From the author of Happily Ever Afters comes another irresistible YA romantic comedy full of self-discovery and...
When Stars Rain Down
When Stars Rain Down Angela Jackson-Brown 9780785240440 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern t...
Benita Renee Jenkins 2: Boxing Rings and Cages
Benita Renee Jenkins 2: Boxing Rings and Cages Lorisa Bates 9781645562665 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Benita’s sixth sense is a blessing and a curse. Her first assignment with a secret...
12 Honeymoons: A Novel
12 Honeymoons: A Novel K. L. Brady 9780983920281 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Publisher’s Weekly hails K.L. Brady’s work "comic and charming…" RT Book Reviews calls Brady’s work "Hilarious!"…an...
Only Black Girl in the Room
Only Black Girl in the Room Alex Travis 9781639106936 Fiction Alcove Press Alcove Press An ambitious reporter stuck doing diversity checks for her white colleagues gets her big break in this compellin...
Memphis
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that...
Homeward
Homeward Angela Jackson-Brown 9781400241101 Fiction Harper Muse HarperCollins Download the Homeward Book Club Kit The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and n...
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9781416533054 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-winning, nationally bestselling African-American author Tracy Price-Thompson, ...
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads)
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads) Tony Dungy 9781442454637 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy—even whe...
Rosewater
Rosewater LIV Little 9781638930228 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 - A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year - An Electric ...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair 9781615192533 Nonfiction The Experiment The Experiment The internationally bestsell...
A Preacher’s Passion (Hallelujah Love)
A Preacher’s Passion (Hallelujah Love) Lutishia Lovely 9780758229410 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Lutishia Lovely is back with another smoldering journey into the scandalous and occasion...
Welcome to My World: A Novel
Welcome to My World: A Novel Curtis Bunn 9781593096885 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Essence bestselling author Curtis Bunn comes a moving novel about a down and out corporate exec...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure Joanne C. Hillhouse 9780999237212 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Beautifully illustrated by Trinidadian artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortun&eac...
Four Women
Four Women Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692962916 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications What happens to four strangers when the present meets the past and the whole world is watching? Th...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners’ cells, pulling reader...
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs Denny S. Bryce 9781496730107 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. “Bryce excel...
The Gone Dead
The Gone Dead Chanelle Benz 9780062490698 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALIST An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction"...
Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith Eric Charles May 9781617751967 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books One of Roxane Gay’s Top 10 Books of 2014One of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels of 2014One of the Chicago Reader’s Favori...
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer Joseph Earl Thomas 9781538740989 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group One of the Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Named Best of June by The Wash...
Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest Madison Smartt Bell 9780375424885 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called ...
The Mad Sister
The Mad Sister Carol Denise Mitchell 9781462675630 Fiction America Star Books America Star Books Mercy Jean Diamond was the fat, un-liked daughter of a good doctor and deranged mother who hated her. A...
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse Hannah V. Sawyerr 9781419776830 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in ...
All We Were Promised: A Novel
All We Were Promised: A Novel Ashton Lattimore 9780593600153 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, She Reads Philadelphia, 1837....
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Anissa Gray 9781984802439 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House "If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of ...
Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel
Sweetness in the Skin: A Novel Ishi Robinson 9780063349858 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmaine ...
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays James Baldwin 9780807016947 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison Th...
The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series)
The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series) Tendai Huchu 9780821421635 Fiction Ohio University Press Ohio University Press “Hairdresser was a perfect end of summer read; my book...
A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel
A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel Yvvette Edwards 9780062183736 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “[A] gorgeously lyrical debut novel….Engrossing and human to the core, Edwards’s novel wrings the heart in...
The Museum of Ordinary People
The Museum of Ordinary People Mike Gayle 9781538740842 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this “pure, unadulterated feel-good” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias l...
Betsey Brown: A Novel
Betsey Brown: A Novel Ntozake Shange 9780312134341 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader grow...
Who Put This Song On?
Who Put This Song On? Morgan Parker 9780525707516 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest. —Elizabeth Acevedo, National ...
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 9781538732199 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion of Bulter’s Parable of the Ta...
Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism
Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism Rhone Fraser 9781796014303 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions In the 1905 letter to William Monroe Trotter, Pauline Hopkins wrote that she lost the editorship ...
This Mournable Body: A Novel
This Mournable Body: A Novel Tsitsi Dangarembga 9781555978129 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable a...
Rain Rising
Rain Rising Courtne Comrie 9780063159730 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “A searing exploration of the intricacies of racism, privilege, and self-worth within the confines of the Black community. ...
The Mother: A Novel
The Mother: A Novel Yvvette Edwards 9780062440778 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely ...
Candace, the Universe, and Everything
Candace, the Universe, and Everything Sherri L. Smith 9781524737931 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of ...
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans John Bailey 9780871139214 Nonfiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. I...
Miss Aldridge Regrets
Miss Aldridge Regrets Louise Hare 9780593439272 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds… if you like murder mysteries, pick thi...
For My Dearest Bella + Sincerely Maria: The Prequel
For My Dearest Bella + Sincerely Maria: The Prequel Mercy B. 9781545057247 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC For My Dearest Bella… RahMeek’s limits are tested as he reads his wife’s heart-...
Ghetto Tales of Anguish
Ghetto Tales of Anguish J. Brinkley 9781977962829 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Dewain Perkins always thought about living a better life, aside from the underworld. But secrets, greed a...
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad Yusef A. Salaam 9781499047127 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions African Studies/Theatre/Religion/History Break-ins, vandalism, hostility between two of Elijah Muhammad’s ...
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth Patrick M. Oliver 9780977949908 Nonfiction Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series Say It Loud! Readers and Writer...
The Autobiography Of My Mother: A Novel
The Autobiography Of My Mother: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374531874 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable nove...
You Never Know: A Novel of Domestic Suspense
You Never Know: A Novel of Domestic Suspense Connie Briscoe 9780063246584 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “The thing I love about Connie Briscoe now is the same thing I’ve always loved about Connie Bris...
The Novel
The Novel Nawal El Saadawi 9781566567329 Fiction Interlink Books Interlink Pub Group Inc “The novel caused tremendous outrage.” So begins Nawal El Saadawi’s tenth novel. And indeed, when the famous Eg...
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel Cheryl A. Head 9781500523947 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Georgette Newton seems to have a predictable future. She will work on the family farm, mar...
Grace: A Novel
Grace: A Novel Elizabeth Nunez 9780345455345 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Justin Peters is a Harvard-educated professor of British and classic literature who reads Shakespeare to his ...
These Women
These Women Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062656384 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Mari...
A Sister’s Power
A Sister’s Power Cydney Rax 9781496715418 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. CYDNEY RAX became obsessed with becoming a writer after reading Terry McMillan’s Disappearing Acts. Her author drea...
Kin: A Novel
Kin: A Novel Tayari Jones 9780525659181 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● June 28, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT A magnificent new novel from the best...