Fiction - African American & Black - Historical

Author: Vince OmniPublisher: Discover New Art LLCPublished: 01/15/2026Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9798990183889About the AuthorOmni, Vince: - VINCE OMNI is author of 1989, winner of the CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize. Other awards include a PEN/Dau Short Story Prize,...

Set in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy question of what justice demands.The free-standing successor and next novel by the...

A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men "the best-written novel on Southern race...

Nearly four years have passed since the events of Rootwork (the first book in The Conjure Series), and the youngest Conway sister, Pee Wee, is now thirteen years old and on the cusp of magical greatness. Ever since the tragedy of 1889, she's worked...

In the midst of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, a young woman guided by a mysterious specter grapples with the past and future of her influential Black family. Petronia Slater's life has been plotted out for her since birth, just like every other child...

Author: Tiffany L. WarrenPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 05/12/2026Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.30w x 0.99dISBN: 9780063322172Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2026 pg. 66Booklist 05/01/2026About the AuthorWarren, Tiffany L.: - Tiffany L. Warren is a novelist and screenwriter who has published over thirty...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of...

In this sexy modern-day fairytale from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician share a soul mate connection told through the history, art, and the magic of Harlem. A New York Times Best...

In this sexy modern-day fairytale from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician share a soul mate connection told through the history, art, and the magic of Harlem. A New York Times Best...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of...

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal Librarian. Eunice Carter, assistant district...

An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers'...

An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers'...

In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a "remarkable and stirring novel" (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) based on the inspiring true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter...

Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's captivating series that sweeps readers back to 1930's Alabama and into the lives of two neighboring couples whose deceitful friendships and imperfect marriages are just the beginning...

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia--"a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds" (People, Best New Books) The rebel . . . the socialite ....

"A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from award-winning author John Edgar Wideman--his first collection in more than a decade. "Race and its...

"With its unflinching excavation of our dark past, American Nightmare is a page turner with a message."--Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Kin In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the South, only to...

"American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality."--Entertainment Weekly"There has never been anything like it."--Marlon James, GQ"So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it's extremely tough to put down."--NPR NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF...

A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedom One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100...