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Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History The forgotten story of a pioneering group of fi...

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 - Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence - Longlisted for the Man Booker Priz...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON ...

Great Cities, Book #2 Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistanc...

On Basketball and Ascension LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD -...

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck A speculative novel about a young woman - invisible by birth and relegated to second-cl...

The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. ...

An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black ...

Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power. Briseis has a gift: wit...

The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship NPR SPRING PICK An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary write...

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian ...

A Love Story #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it - you know...it - from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and und...

My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and ...

Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three For the first time, Dawn Staley shares powerful and inspiring st...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Named a Best Book of the Year byNPR * BuzzFeed * Bustle * Shelf Awareness * Publishers Lunch Ijeoma ...

From award-winning author of What Storm, What Thunder, Myriam J. A. Chancy, comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families - forever joi...

An American Tragedy In this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winni...

Portraits of a Life A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades - a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Bri...

A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Awar...

Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R. R. Martin! An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical real...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with ta...

This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story...