Fiction - Black Reads

Delve into the minds of several frisky women who are willing to risk it all in the pursuit of pleasure from bestselling author Curtis Bunn. With se...

In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange...

IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she...

Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Poetry From the introduction by Michael A. Arnzen: Welcome to one of the meatiest colle...

Hakim Bellamy's latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Marti...

Held captive by her employers — and by her own demons — on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely Am...

This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows three Black gay millennial...

Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature AssociationWinner, 2020 World Fantasy AwardsWinner,...

Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, ...

Notes From Your Bookseller The poems here mince no words but instead treat them like notes; staccato on a jazz riff. Or the music of a Phillip Gl...

Fill Up on Hope with Self Love Notes Self Love Notes is a collection of uplifting poetry, affirmations, and quotes celebrating unconditionally lo...

A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world. Winner of the Ferro-...

Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and T...

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as...

Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitati...