Exploring Diverse Authors

For the first time in more than a decade, Kenyatta's Last Hist is now back in print, along with the previous titles in the series, with a whole new...

Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with prof...

In Little Green, Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective Easy Rawlins returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of that haven for L...

From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of one ...

Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown's mom asks Easy to ma...

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX s Empire: The Cutting Seasonis a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a...

She's the ultimate madam with a heart of gold. But can she fulfill her own dreams--and stay at the top? In the business of high-end, no-limits de...

From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is "o...

Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective t...

Donald Goines, the originator of urban lit, never lets up with this raw portrayal of one man’s fight to rid the streets of drugs and crooked cops...

Notes From Black ReadsTexas Ranger Darren Mathews is in search of a missing child. The standard fare of a premise is deceptive as the book is fa...

“The voice of the ghetto itself.” —The Village Voice The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta’s que...

The godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines knows life on the streets is a one-way ticket to life behind bars, where suffering is the one and only ...

The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor, and race, bestselling author Iceberg Slim...

Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. One early ...

Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today's urban writers with his gritty, realistic look...

Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army's ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of E...

Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them o...