Fiction - African American & Black - Urban & Street Lit

Zariah woke up expecting an ordinary day, but instead, she faced a nightmare that would forever alter her life. A routine visit to her mother's home quickly spirals into tragedy when she discovers her mother unresponsive. Before Zariah can even grasp reality, chaos erupts,...

"A Family's Farewell" In the heart of New Jersey, a lavish Christmas dinner becomes the stage for grief, love, betrayal, and unspoken secrets. Genesis is struggling with the murder of his son Amir. His wife, Talisa, returns from a trip with their daughter, bringing...

When the plug's brother crosses him and forces his hand, Carlos "Los" Mills dives headfirst into a deadly street war unlike anything Portland, Oregon has ever seen.Raised on old rules, Carlos refuses to involve the women and the children of his enemies in the...

Nya Mixon and her boyfriend Grizzy are still on a deadly mission to recover the millions that were stolen from Grizzy's incarcerated father. When they decide to visit Nya's wounded father in his west side Chicago neighborhood, a scrawny young gunman attempts to carjack...

Deneisha Lewis has graduated from petty theft to the big leagues--life as a Stick-up Girl. When Deneisha Lewis was released from the Cobb County Adult Detention Center after doing a year for shoplifting, she knew that she had to do something other than boosting...

Author: Porscha SterlingPublisher: Dafina BooksPublished: 08/25/2026Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9781496741967About the AuthorPorscha Sterling is the nationally bestselling author, influencer and independent publisher who founded Royalty Publishing House, the #1 female-owned urban literary publishing house in the US. She's...

Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes not only to survive but to succeed, she wants out. And she's determined to make it out of Crooklyn. She's determined to make it out of...

Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review of...

From the mind of Donald Goines, one of the most influential, bestselling Black authors to date, comes a edition reissue of his timeless, page-turning, bullet-riddled tale... The bad news: He was born on the streets. The good news: No one can keep him down.The...

HERMAN "BIG WORM" PATTERSON, a heroin kingpin from Chicago's gang-ridden west side, has finally reached his end goal. He's saved up five million dollars and stashed it away at a northwest Indiana storage facility, in the town where he plans to settle down and...

MARKIO EARL has $5 million in cold hard cash that belongs to a Chicago heroin kingpin, and his refusal to return it has led to a deadly string of shootings that leaves local police and federal agents baffled. When all leads point to Markio,...

Six months after finding five million dollars in cash inside of an abandoned, strange locker, Markio Earl has transitioned from a cold-hearted dope boy to a best-selling urban fiction novelist. He and world-renowned criminal attorney, Nikkia Staples, have become an unstoppable power couple, and...

Voltaira Muck, the notoriously ruthless leader of Miami's Zae Pound gang, has made off with well over a hundred kilos of narcotics belonging to Markio Earl; kilos that Markio himself received on consignment from the even more ruthless Matamoras drug cartel. Needless to say,...

Markio Earl has started a new relationship with Morena Manfield, a beautiful young registered nurse from Baltimore, Maryland. She is everything he's ever wanted in a potential wife, so he pulls out all the stops to reel her in. But his plans of settling...

Every Hustler's reign ends in one of two ways...prison or death. Refusing to let the prediction become a reality, Julius "Jules" Carter creates new rules to an old game. Strategically, he forms one of the most notorious drug operations Harlem has ever seen. Jules...

By turns gritty and heartbreaking, this bold novel from legendary author Donald Goines, the OG Master of Urban Lit, tells the story of a young man awakened to vengeance in the aftermath of a brutal crime against his sister . . . George Jackson...

The heart wants what the heart wants. No matter how many times you tell yourself that you're better off without that person, a part of you will never be able to let go. Everyone has that one person that they always think about, no...

Diamonds are forever . . . or are they? The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty...

Ali is a drug dealer slash business man who tries to change the way the game is played by giving back to the community. But at the same time he has to keep a close eye on his childhood crime partner G-Money who has...

The Wolf is back!... Months after the gruesome death of his daughter, Wolf is back and vows to make anybody who had anything to do with his daughter's death pay. But he's not alone his fiancé, Ivy wants to help get revenge for the...