A teen investigative podcaster looks deeper into a murder spree that occurred 5 years ago in a small Louisiana town
I Don't Wish You Well
A multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott
With Love from Harlem
Based on the real life of female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye
Fire, Sword, & Sea
Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this stand-alone historical fantasy
The Starseekers
Stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees.
When Trees Testify
The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, tracing the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day
A Black & Queer History of the United States
Inspired by true, long-buried stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back
Burn Down Master's House
The author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project gives voice to long silent African Americans from the past
A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African ...
A single mom gets a second chance at love with her high school sweetheart.
Janae Sanders' Second Time Around
A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery
Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past
In the tradition of Jordan Peele and Tiffany Jackson’s The Weight of Blood, a YA thriller about a Black teen whose fight for survival forces a small southern vacation town to face its dark history of racial violence.
Sundown Girls
In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself.
On Sundays She Picked Flowers
February
An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor
On Morrison
Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.
Cleopatra
A novel about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy
Kin
A poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Where the Wildflowers Grow
One American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.
Keeper of Lost Children
A pulse-pounding supernatural horror story where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.
The Body
When life lassoes Josie and Shawn back together three years after their dreamy first date, their second chance at love is anything but easy.
This Ain't Our First Rodeo
The weather might be icy, but the tension is red-hot in this fake—dating hockey rom—com
Skate It Till You Make It
March
The award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.
Black Out Loud
For fans of Sinners and Immortal Dark, a teen girl must uncover her family’s deadly secrets in order to save her best friend and her island in this heart-pounding YA debut.
She Drinks the Light
DI Henley faces her darkest challenge yet...
The Shadow Carver
The National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.
Chain of Ideas
Exes discover they’ve both inherited the restaurant they love
The Bridge Back to You
April
A mysterious outsider torments two Haitian American sisters, forcing them to confront dark secrets from their family’s past, in this powerful psychological suspense novel from the acclaimed author of Jackal.
One of You
In this YA fantasy novel perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter, a girl who has always served others decides to take power for herself.
From the buzzy, viral sensation Only for the Week, comes the next book in Natasha Bishop’s The Forever Falling series, featuring an intimate bucket list road trip, sexy banter, and a sweet and spicy second chance romance.
The Art of Loving You
For readers of Vanessa Miller, Sheila Williams, Victoria Christopher Murray and Tracy Chevalier, the story of an unconventional woman who overcame adversity to create enduring tributes in stone to her race and times. The life of pioneering Black Neoc...
Edmonia
In this crackling portrayal of friendship in peril, a young woman's world is upended when a tragedy in her best friend's life tests the boundaries of their sisterhood—a sharp and compelling debut novel from a Ghanaian-American writer.
Somewhere Soft to Land
A warm, smart, hilarious, delicious, riveting debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other.
