Collection: Staff Picks

To make the right decisions for your future, you must maintain a connection to your past. In her debut book, podcaster, priestess, and all-around badass...

In this lyrical picture book from two breakout picture book creators, a young Black child waits for--and worries about--her father while he's away from home....

  Design Apprentice August chose to honor Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist. Rustin was an advocate against racial discrimination and for gay rights, as...

"A field guide to the ethereal and mystical parts of our cooking that give it soul. It sings with the energy of intuition and tradition,...

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm--Visions of...

  Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller  The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. ...

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan--a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots...

"New Blue Sun represents a continuation of adventure and discovery for me. Even inherent in the meaning of my name André 3000, there is a...

A clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty--and magic--of her culture to thwart the Big Bad Wolf. Mahogany is...

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior lives, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies"A...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Drama Free and Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a hands-on resource for understanding and working through dysfunctional family dynamics--and recognizing when to walk...

A classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as "an original and hugely insightful writer" by The New York Times--with an...

One of BookRiot's Ten Best Disability Books of 2023A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the...

Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor. To Violet Greene,...

  A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school's decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative...

  The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a...

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, body image, and ultimately about what gets shared from...

  A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA ...

From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing,...