Number one New York Times best seller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times * The Washington Post * NPR * People * Time Magazine * Vanity Fair * Glamour  “Bennett’s tone and style recalls Jam...

The Vanishing Half

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions. Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.  An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the N...

Red at the Bone

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick  Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle...

We Are Not Like Them

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TEEN VOGUE "A dark feminist tale spun with blood and gold. Must read!" –Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in f...

The Gilded Ones

New York Times best seller  Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy best seller Lilac Girls introduced listeners to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil...

Sunflower Sisters

Three-time Hugo Award-winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction auth...

How Long 'Til Black Future Month?

The New York Times best seller: a revelatory inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times best-selling author Jose Baez. When renowned defense attorney Jose Baez receiv...

Unnecessary Roughness

Recommended by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more! “The Kindest Lie...

The Kindest Lie

Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader ...

Harriet Tubman

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms.  Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as t...

Algorithms of Oppression

Winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Named a Best Book of 2020 by O Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Real Simple, The Guardian, and more Finalist for: The Story Prize, The L.A. Times Book Prize, The Aspen Words Literary Prize, The...

The Office of Historical Corrections

A Go On Girl! Book Club Pick  Six critically acclaimed, best-selling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the...

Blackout

“Fierce and unrelenting.... Do yourself a favor and get lost in this beautiful book!” (Tomi Adeyemi, number-one New York Times best-selling author of Children of Blood and Bone)  "Narrator Shayna Small delivers a versatile performance in this young a...

All the Stars and Teeth

This program is read by the author. In The Queen V, the beloved OB-GYN, celebrity doctor, and star of Bravo's Married to Medicine reveals the 12 principles behind a happy and healthy vagina...and other lady parts. After 20 years of private obstetrics...

The Queen V

A nostalgic tale of first love, first loss, and the budding womanhood of a Black girl in the '90s.  Tragedy flips Amore Brown’s world on its axis right before she heads off to college. Having to sit tight for the summer, she chooses Jersey City, New ...

Last Stop from Innocence

Sunday Times best seller. Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021. Longlisted for the National Book Award. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, ...

Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from th...

Sisters in Arms

A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science ...

The Vanished Birds

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years - using a Black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, s...

Killing the Black Body

“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes, and fears cease to exist.” (The New York Times) The start of an exciting new historical...

Dead Dead Girls

An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact  The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenop...

America for Americans

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding a...

America on Fire

The Plot against Hip Hop is a noir novel set in the world of hip-hop culture. The fatal stabbing of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard, and secu...

The Plot Against Hip Hop

This “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New York Times best-selling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and b...

Carolina Built

The most important novel you’ll listen to this year  Not every story is black and white.  Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is Black and Je...

Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom - on their own terms....

It Was All a Dream

A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth. With the coming of the Great Flood - the mother of all disasters - only one family was spared, drifting on an endless sea, waiting for the waters to subside. We know the s...

Naamah

These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women - and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and ...

Pretty Bitches

“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.” (Leigh Bardugo)  In his adult novel debut, Hugo, N...

Goliath

Hugo award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.    N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the fi...

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Professional bodyguard D Hunter takes a gig protecting rapper Asya Roc at an underground fight club in poverty-stricken Brownsville, Brooklyn. Unknown to D, the rapper has arranged to purchase illegal guns at the event. An acquaintance of D's from th...

The Lost Treasures of R&B

Achieve all of your financial goals with these 300 easy solutions to all your personal finance questions - from paying off your student loans to managing investments.  Are you looking for ways to decrease your spending...and start increasing your sav...

Money Hacks

Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world bette...

Feminist AF

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice  A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago. "The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebr...

Stateway's Garden

Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters. Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many differe...

Millennial Nuns

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer. Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to reb...

Last Summer on State Street

"No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the American Revolution - outraged by the tax on tea, American colonists chose to destroy the tea by dumping it into the water! Learn all about the famed colonialists who fought against the British Monarchy, and listen to this audiobook about this act of rebellion from our history! The Boston Tea party is brought to life!

What Was the Boston Tea Party?

This brilliant memoir-in-verse tells the moving story of how a nation learned to celebrate a hero. Through years of protests and petition, Kathlyn's story highlights the foot soldiers who fought to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national h...

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960s. The March is brought to life in this audiobook!

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