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No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship Sheryl Lister 9781400245796 Fiction Harper Muse HarperCollins True friendship never ends. Joy, Diane, Rochelle, and Yvette made a vow as children to be best frie...
What is Toni Robinson Reading Now?
What is Toni Robinson Reading Now? Poetry & Spoken Word Book Expect Toni Robinson tells us about two of the books her clubs are reading now: No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship by Sheryl Lister htt...
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The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century
The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century Farai Chideya 9780688175801 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Two years ago, Newsweek named Farai Chideya to its "Century Club" of a hundred p...
Travelers: A Novel
Travelers: A Novel Helon Habila 9780393239591 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by one of our most ac...
My Journey with Maya
My Journey with Maya Tavis Smiley with David Ritz 9780316341776 Nonfiction Little, Brown Paperbacks Hachette Book Group A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Ta...
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship Audrey Vernick 9780802728227 Fiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co When Vinnie, a crazy-happy dog, gets lost while visiting a nature p...
Danielle Bayard Jackson
Danielle Bayard Jackson NONE Danielle Bayard Jackson, a former teacher turned friendship coach, is known for her insights on female friendship, featured in major outlets like NBC News and The New Yor...
Boys Come First
Boys Come First Aaron Foley 9781953368256 Fiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows...
January Jackson and Friends
January Jackson and Friends Zonie Felder 9781462083558 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Beautiful women can-and will-stoop to ugly acts in the name of love, lust, and power. In the face of unspea...
Capone 3: A Black Mafia Romance
Capone 3: A Black Mafia Romance Jahquel J. 9798347035199 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing My family was taken away from me. I was too young to know what went on, but now that I know, it’s t...
Missing White Woman
Missing White Woman Kellye Garrett 9780316256971 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group A “propulsive page-turner” (Alyssa Cole) and “thriller not to be missed” (Michael Connelly) from the award...
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States Tony Platt 9781250085115 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of th...
Sold!
Sold! J. L. Campbell 9781976568213 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Christmas looks dismal this year for Feechi Anoduro, until she meets Carsten Raimes at an auction. The wealthy businessm...
RahMeek and Bella V: The Finale (RahMeek and Bella: A Philly Love Story)
RahMeek and Bella V: The Finale (RahMeek and Bella: A Philly Love Story) Mercy B. 9781545055502 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Deciding that her love for RahMeek outweighed any reservati...
The Color Of Christ: The Son Of God And The Saga Of Race In America
The Color Of Christ: The Son Of God And The Saga Of Race In America Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey 9780807835722 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press How is...
The Color of Our Future : Our Multiracial Future
The Color of Our Future : Our Multiracial Future Farai Chideya 9780688165307 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Since the Civil Rights movement, most Americans have thought of race as a black and...
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010) Kam Williams images/why%20did%20I%20get%20married%202.jpg Film Review Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) Click to Order via Amazon Rated PG-13 for m...
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been Amanda Robinson Book Review In the midst of arguably a time of the greatest push for the advocacy of LGBT acceptance, Jackie Hi...
We Deserve to Heal: Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women
We Deserve to Heal: Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women Patrice Gopo 9781985903494 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky “We tell these...
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship Ibtihaj Muhammad 9780759555709 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The sequel to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller ...
The Match: Two Outsiders Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History
The Match: Two Outsiders Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History Bruce Schoenfeld 9780060526535 Nonfiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins The incredible story of what happened when two outsiders—...
Friends
Friends Black Barbie 9798714875571 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Seeing that Taj and Ayseana had been raised close together as sisters, things amongst the two of them rapidly...
This Is What It Feels Like
This Is What It Feels Like Rebecca Barrow 9780062494238 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This tender story of friendship, music, and ferocious love asks: what will you fight for, if not yourself? F...
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend Sharon Robinson 9780545804516 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Praise for The Hero Two Doors ...
Chewing Gum Dreams
Chewing Gum Dreams Michaela Coel 9781783190140 Fiction Oberon Books Bloomsbury Publishing Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods, emergency...
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship Nikki Giovanni 9780805082647 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emanc...
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison A.J. Verdelle 9780063031661 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precari...
Wahala
Wahala Nikki May 9780063084247 Fiction Custom House HarperCollins "Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth." — Washington Post"Great fun and extremely...
Leaving Cecil Street: A Novel
Leaving Cecil Street: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780060722890 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins In one West Philadelphia neighborhood, families come together in celebration of unity and to...
Lonely Crowds (paperback)
Lonely Crowds (paperback) Stephanie Wambugu 9780316581349 Fiction Little, Brown Paperbacks Hachette Book Group Winner of the 38th Annual Publishing Triangle Awards’ Edmund White Award for Debut Fictio...
Lonely Crowds
Lonely Crowds Stephanie Wambugu 9780316581332 Fiction Little Brown Hachette Book Group Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 | Vulture’s Best Books of 2025 | New York Magazine’s Best Bo...
The Right Side of Reckless
The Right Side of Reckless Whitney D. Grandison 9781335402486 Fiction Inkyard Press Inkyard Press A bad boy who needs a second chance, a good girl who is off limits, forbidden friendship and flying sp...
Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution Youssef Daoudi 9781626724341 Nonfiction First Second Macmillan Publishers "Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then―q...
Curlfriends New in Town (a Graphic Novel)
Curlfriends New in Town (a Graphic Novel) Sharee Miller 9780316591478 Fiction Little, Brown Ink Hachette Book Group New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener about the Cu...
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...
Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships
Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships Danielle Bayard Jackson 9780306830617 Nonfiction Hachette Go Hachette Book Group Why are women’s f...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Adapted by Margeaux Weston 9780316478854 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Bo...
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison A.J. Verdelle 9780063031678 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recog...
That Flag
That Flag Tameka Fryer Brown 9780063093447 Fiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group An affecting picture book from Tameka Fryer Brown and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Nikkolas Smit...
More Than Love
More Than Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172235 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Going from friends to lovers doesn’t come easy…Corporate attorney Benjamin Jenkins is one of Cincinnati’s most...
Skeemin On Tha Low - 2
Skeemin On Tha Low - 2 Black Barbie 9781983707346 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Betrayal can truly become the epitome of any friendship and it can also become the failure of someone’s t...
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781478914754 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year frie...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith 9780465079704 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Ca...
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Patricia Bell-Scott 9780679446521 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Ra...
Walk A Straight Line
Walk A Straight Line Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781601627773 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Two friends. Two brothers. Two weddings. Too many secrets. Colleen MacGregor reded...
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship Tania Grossinger 9781620876831 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Thirteen-year-old Tania Grossinger lives in the famous Grossinger hotel in New York’s...
When Baldwin Loved Brenden
When Baldwin Loved Brenden Electa Rome Parks 9781601623768 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance A whole decade has passed since Baldwin, Brenden, Bria, and Christopher last saw each other. In c...
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education Danielle Allen 9780226014678 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press “Don’t talk to stranger...
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship Jon Meacham 9780375505003 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn ...
All I Need
All I Need Jacquie Bamberg Moore 9780971192409 Fiction Reading Time Publishing Reading Time Publishing Discover the Power of Friendship and Sisterly Love! In their mid-thirties, Randi, Umi and Mich...
Kismet : A story of Love, Friendship, Obsession and Fate
Kismet : A story of Love, Friendship, Obsession and Fate Dawn Knight 9780967866000 Fiction Brooklyn Books Brooklyn Books Embark on an adventurous journey with Danielle, Keera, Queenie, Saudia, Tai an...
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Robert Fleming Book Review There is so much commercial tripe out there on our bookshelves, but this book is very worthy: Miss Chloe: A Memoir Of A...
Another Brooklyn: A Novel
Another Brooklyn: A Novel Jacqueline Woodson 9780062359988 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers...
Red Hats: A Novel
Red Hats: A Novel Damon Wayans 9781439164617 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Meet Alma, a mother and wife, who’s brutally honest and bitter. Disappointment and heartbreak have left the once...
Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Thumper Book Review On a rainy night, Desiree Sheffield calls Carmen Taylor (on the eve of Carmen’s wedding to Burl,) to come get her after another violent fight with...
Guy Sims
Guy Sims NONE Guy A. Sims is an acclaimed author known for his early publications on Kwanzaa, his collection of American Tall Tales, and his novel, Living Just A Little. He's also the head writer for...
The Kaya Girl
The Kaya Girl Mamle Wolo 9780316703932 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This rags-to-riches story by an award-winning Ghanaian author has page-turning appeal with lumi...
Dele Weds Destiny
Dele Weds Destiny Tomi Obaro 9780593320297 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite for the first time in thirty years at a lavish ...
A Love of My Own: A Novel
A Love of My Own: A Novel E. Lynn Harris 9780385492706 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Friendship. Love. Family. Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another new tale that embraces h...
Breathing Room
Breathing Room Patricia Elam 9780671028435 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In her dazzling debut novel, award-winning author Patricia Elam takes us into the lives of two complet...
The Maker of Saints
The Maker of Saints Thulani Davis 9780140267358 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House ? A QPB and BOMC selection ? The author?s previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book ...
Perfect Timing
Perfect Timing Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Brenda Jackson’s second full-length fiction work Perfect Timing, is a novel about losing, finding, and maintaining friendship and love. Mrs. Jackson ...
Sunshine on the Crooked Road
Sunshine on the Crooked Road Eryka Parker Book Review Sunshine on the Crooked Road is a sensational novel that resonated with me. There’s even a mention of Martha’s Vineyard, where I happ...
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...
Booked Graphic Novel
Booked Graphic Novel Kwame Alexander 9780358161813 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander’s Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and frien...
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...
N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin 0000000107503776 Jemisin, in 2018, Became the Only Writer to Win 3 Best Novel Hugo Awards in Consecutive Years (note) Nora K. Jemisin, born in 1972, is a renowned speculative fiction aut...
The Last King
The Last King Thumper Book Review Now is a time of rejoicing. Nichelle Tramble has finally released her much anticipated second novel, The Last King: A Maceo Redfield novel. I have been...
Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison
Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Thumper Book Review It is safe to say, I began this book in complete and total ignorance. I had not read any of Madison Smartt Bell&rs...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Troy Johnson Article Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get ...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568012 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Beetlecreek
Beetlecreek William Demby 9798217007318 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From William Demby, a rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendsh...
The Wilderness
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy 9780063318779 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Named a most anticipated book by New York Times, Washingt...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568005 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Between Friends & Lovers
Between Friends & Lovers Shirlene Obuobi 9780063307315 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Kennedy Ryan meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of social media—w...
This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
Skin & Bones
Skin & Bones Renée Watson 9780316570886 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sister...
What She Missed
What She Missed Liara Tamani 9780063093287 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s house in the count...
All the Lonely People
All the Lonely People Mike Gayle 9781538720172 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this “warm, funny” novel (Good Housekeeping), Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird rediscovers the worl...
We Are Not Like Them
We Are Not Like Them Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 9781982181031 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond ...
Early Departures
Early Departures justin a. reynolds 9780062748409 Fiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins Like Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us, Early Departures by Jus...
So Done
So Done Paula Chase 9780062691781 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of...
Doormat
Doormat Kelly McWilliams 9780385731683 Fiction Delacorte Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House What would you do your best friend got pregnant? Fourteen-year-old Jaime is used to her best fr...
Fish Tales: A Novel
Fish Tales: A Novel Nettie Jones 9780374608804 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers “Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other,...
Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel
Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel Leesa Cross-Smith 9781938235382 Fiction Hub City Press Hub City Press O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the SummerLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize...
Them: A Novel
Them: A Novel Nathan McCall 9781416549161 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound debut novel — in the tra...
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant Michelle Cliff 9780872864375 Fiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a rev...
Black and Ugly
Black and Ugly Thumper Book Review Shocked?! You should be. I know I am. Before any of you say anything, I admit that I am somewhat surprised to be reading T. Styles latest novel, Black and U...
I Do Love You Still
I Do Love You Still Tony Lindsay Book Review Mary B. Morrison’s novel, I do Love You Still, is filled with drama and unexpected twists that will gap a reader’s mouth. The story uses roman...
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 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...
New Essays on Invisible Man
New Essays on Invisible Man Robert G. O’Meally 9780521313698 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man shares ...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
Donna Drew Sawyer
Donna Drew Sawyer NONE Donna Drew Sawyer, author of Provenance, has a rich background in arts administration, advertising, and public relations. A New Yorker with over three decades of experience in ...
justin a. reynolds
justin a. reynolds NONE Justin A. Reynolds is an acclaimed author renowned for his debut YA novel, “Opposite of Always,” and second novel “Early Departures.” His work includes a Marvel graphic novel ...
Sassy
Sassy Thumper Book Review Gloria Mallette is one of my favorite authors. I became a major fan after I read one her earlier novel, Shades of Jade. Over the years she remained o...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Loading Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get the help you need to b...
Bros
Bros Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536258929 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press “Weatherford and Brown are giving us Black Boy Joy at its best.” — Varian Johnson, author of The Parker Inhe...
Friends and Family
Friends and Family Natalie Baszile 9780593492161 Fiction Pamela Dorman Books Penguin Random House From the author of Queen Sugar, a piercing examination of friendship and loyalty as two best friends f...