Collection: Best-Sellers

"Expertly blends reality and fantasy to explore what's behind love and loss, what it takes to heal." - Randy Ribay, author of National Book Award...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life.   ". . . every story becomes a multiplication,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • An NPR 2024 “Books We Loved” Pick • An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 • A...

2024 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Concrete Rose meets Things We Couldn't Say in Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr.--the inspiration behind the forthcoming animated short film...

A New York Times bestseller--over one million copies sold!A National Book Award winnerA Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner   Bestselling and award winning author Sherman...

Major literary figure and "master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the "slaveroad,"...

Gather the midnight strands,tend the roots that gave you life,weave hopes into pathways--paths that lead you home.Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and...

This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates...

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Drives Me Crazy. Valentina "Vale" Castillo-Green's life revolves around...

A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable....

Winner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature! Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an...

Even-keeled assessment of the Black experienceTartt Fiction Award Co-winner! With aplomb and humor and steady eye, this collection looks at the Black experience in Oakland,...

Journey into a mystical dimension, where a chosen few protect the balance between the heroes of light and the deeminions of terror. Hailing from a...

  The 2023 Pura Belpré Award-winning young adult novel! Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to...

From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a teenager reckoning with her family’s--and her home town's--secrets. Yaminah Okar...

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project....

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating...

An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to...

Winner of the John Newbery MedalWinner of the Coretta Scott King Author AwardAn Indiebound BestsellerA New York Times Bestseller Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible...

  A modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy...

  The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Awards.Paris, 1806....

The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, the American legal system was dominated by racist officials who shut Black people out...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, Angie Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young...