Bestsellers

A celebration of Black WomanhoodFor centuries, Black women have been written out of the dominant narrative, their stories untold, their art appropriated. Many of them found ways to resist. Some...

'A beautiful ode to migration, love and all that we do for family.' —Florence Ọlajide 'It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself...

Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into a pillar of the community, and she just hasn't had time for romance....

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the...

A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to AmericaI want life.For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped...

A tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her...

It's hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won't leave you alone...Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer...

A feminist literary classic by one of Africa's greatest writersFirst published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal...

A trailblazing collection of writing on contemporary Africa from across Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life — ranging from musings on politics and culture to deeply personal introspections Binyavanga Wainaina was a...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESOne of four books in Vintage Classics' HARLEM RENAISSANCE series — flapped cut-down b paperbacks of some of the most influential books of the 1920s and...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be...

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first timeIn...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023  In a scorching story of music, passion and self-discovery, love will set Yamaye free... It's time to dance, to love, to be free...'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO,...

One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one boy's loves, friendships and political awakening as a mine...

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything.An unlikely trio — Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and...

A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle ButlerFrom the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler,...

Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo Award-winning author and cultural critic Sarah Ladipo Manyika takes us on a remarkable journey across contemporary cultural and political landscapes as she talks to some of...

Almond Brown has no friends in real life . . . but 3.5 million followers online. A heart-felt, whip-smart deep dive into what it would really be like to be...

Love's got everything to do with it.Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, a musical icon celebrating her 60th year in the industry. In this dramatic autobiography, she...

New York Times bestselling author Danielle Paige puts a dark YA spin on Cinderella's fairy godmother in this brand new origin story Bibbidi-bobbidi-blood. Everyone knows that a fairy godmother helped...

Searingly beautiful poems about compassion, resistance and desire by an iconic Black American activist and writerIn trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of...

Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It charts how the...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980sSequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour to...

An original and radical reframing of anti-Black racism in popular culture, history and artLewis Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism, has spent decades nurturing intellectual reflection as...

Reality-TV love may look tempting, but real love could change everything in the debut novel from the Bachelorette star and author of Miss Me with That.Maya Johnson lives her life...

From the first ever poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center comes a bold coming-of-age story told in verse about a young woman who loses a best friend, but finds herself in the...

From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter's quest to save her motherAyosa is a wandering spirit joyous,...

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie who will stop at nothing to find the truth is...

An immersive historical debut which tells the story of a mixed-race woman who plays a freak on the stage in Victorian London and finds herself caught in a reckoning with...

A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a...

Two people do the same job and are both firefighters. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are so...

The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the police Fred Daniels, a black...

The author of the Booker-shortlisted Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroadsIn a university town, a circle of young men and women...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of Chaos and Flame...

In this heart-fluttering romance a shy bookworm falls for her mysterious and charming neighbour, not realising there's history already there . . .Shy, bookish, Lily Greene finds escapism in her...

For fans of Yaa Gyasi, Toni Morrison, and Richard Flanagan — gripping historical novel of a Black soldier's experience in the Second World War — a rare, moving, untold tale...

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic! One girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a...

Aaliyah Preston and Tyler Moore were best friends growing up. Tyler played and wrote music, and Aaliyah brought that music to life through dance. They were convinced their lives would...

From rising star author Mariama J. Lockington comes a powerful young adult debut novel in verse about police brutality, mental health, and finding your safe space in an unforgiving world....

An Odyssey to Europe A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country...

Translated by Sam Taylor From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century Senegal The...

Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods. From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes another...

More than friends. Less than official. Definitely complicated. #Merky Books' first unputdownable romcom. When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put...

The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide...

From the author of the Oprah Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is an emotionally powerful novel that "succeeds mightily...truly a wonderful story" (Boston Globe). Aria is no stranger...

Translated by Johnny Lorenz 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us...

‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a "chip on his shoulder"’ Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager...

Is the truest family the one we’re born into, or the one we make for ourselves? Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has – her marriage, a stable...

This “stirring…emotionally raw” (Publishers Weekly) young adult debut novel about three teens entangled by secret love, open hatred, and the invisible societal constraints wrapped around people both Black and white...

From award-winning author Benjamin Dean comes a deliciously dark and addictive YA thriller following the lives of Gen Z’s rich and famous through the lens of an undercover teen journalist....