Fiction - Diverse Reads

A Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Bo...

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry ...

Jill Scott's first-ever poetry collection delivers the same earthy, personal, and tell-it-like-it-is voice that fans have grown to know and love. W...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of th...

In March 2020, Lucas Crawford was quarantined at the Banff Centre for the Arts, coughing like a good fat asthmatic at high altitude, in the middle ...

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in PoetryIndecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip R...

Praise for Saeed Jones:"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."—FlavorWire"This book leaves your body trans...

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered ...

Self-made poet and social media sensation Pierre Jeanty has triumphed once again with his most recent collection, Apologies That Never Came. From...

In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contov...

"To The Women I Once Loved" is a reflection of a poet's heart, his deepest inner feelings towards past relationships and how they contributed to th...

r.h. Sin's This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, ...

The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United State...

An Empowering Book of Poems and EssaysFans of Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Her by Pierre Alex Jeanty, Whiskey Words and a Shovel by r.h. Sin, and T...

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring...

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered ...

As a young, Black, queer person in a small town in the South where everyone knows everyone, Orders of Service is a coming-of-age exploration of the...

Notes From Black ReadsPoets have words. That is their craft. Rudy Francisco finds his own, by that we mean, “invented” words to tell us how he r...

One can watch many baseball games before seeing a triple play. With this book E. Ethelbert Miller completes his baseball trilogy. How I Found Love ...

Self-made poet and social media sensation Pierre Alex Jeanty provides the final piece to his stunning 3-book collection, HER. The much-anticipated ...