Fiction - African American & Black - Urban & Street Lit

After doing 15 years in maximum security prisons, Star's murder conviction is overturned and he's set free. Determined to restore his neighborhood to the way it was before he left, Star teams up with his dead best friend's younger brother and makes his move....

Now that friends and foes have shown their true colors, star decides to paint the street's red. Those that pretended to have love and loyalty, but have turned out to be fake must pay with their lives. As for the opps, they'll meet their...

In St. Pete, Florida, also known as "St. Pistol," things aren't always as they appear. Friends one day can be enemies the next. A woman who professes her love and loyalty one minute can switch up in a heartbeat.BIG BOY is on a roll,...

Out of all the fearless goons in his ridiculously wealthy cocaine-trafficking family, Macho is the first to shoot and last to leave. He follows his own rules, which is...... there are none, especially when it comes to protecting his people, and getting money.Yessinia, Macho's...

Near death experiences, wild goose chases, and wicked smiles has Macho straight wildn' out. Someone's been poisoning the massive amounts of cocaine that he and his people have flooded the ILL-State with, and people are dying. Could this signal the end of their illicit...

Macho is still wildin'. He doesn't give a f*ck. He's got the heart of a gangster-fearless beyond reason. His beautiful Newyorican goddess is his ride or die, his equal, his corazón-and the Gangsta Boo is right there with them, every step of the way....

Cayla never pictured this life. She had vet-school dreams and a mama who believed in her-until grief, bad choices, and toxic love with Orion rerouted everything. Most women put on weight after having a baby, and no matter how she tried to portray herself...

Three of Urban Book's most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them. Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It's something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!Good girl Naomi...

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way...

A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work,...

From one of the great American writers of the twentieth century--a coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity, the racism he faces, and the double-edged role of religion in his life. - Presented here in stunning hardcover with an...

Brandon "Bankroll" Banks and his girlfriend Chrissy are the neighborhood's power couple. Until something suspicious occurs and leaves them separated. Time heals but it can also destroy. While Banks is fighting for his life will his love Chrissy stay by his side?...Or will she...

After escaping a perilous fate, Brandon "Bankroll" Banks dives into a new and dangerous playing field. Equipped with the rules and tools he was blessed with from his mentor, as well as the undying loyalty of his new woman, Banks becomes one of the...

Years after Chrissy was arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of Brandon "Bankroll" Banks, she fights for her freedom, while at the same time navigating through the new relationships in her life. Having been dealt one of the most treacherous hands, Chrissy has...

The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived! Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It's been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc's best friend, finds himself on a...

Deacon Dutch III has spent his life navigating two worlds that were never meant to collide. In the concrete canyons of Harlem and Brooklyn, the Dutch name is royalty-a legacy built on power, strategy, and the high-stakes grind of the streets. But inside the...

For most, home is a haven, a sanctuary. But for Fame, it's a battleground fueled by a burning bloodlust for the one who murdered his brother while Fame was incarcerated in federal prison. Released from his cage, the young hustler wastes no time reacquainting...

Some truths don't die.They wait.For years, Onyx carried grief like armor. The story of what happened to his family was told, retold, and accepted-but never fully examined. Now the cracks in that story are widening.And what's buried beneath them threatens everything.As old alliances resurface...

Onyx Stone is a billionaire with a controlled exterior, a violent past he keeps buried, and a legacy that demands obedience. An unhinged alpha male by reputation and by blood, he lives by rules that keep him powerful and alive in a world where...

Love will make you feel safe...right before it breaks you down.I thought I had it all figured out.Junky was my day one.My rider.My soulmate.Yeah, I know Junky is a wild nickname.But trust me, he is more than you would imagine.The one man I swore...