Collection: Best-Sellers

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" (Choice) biography of...

For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award...

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we...

Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying...

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

  In The Stories from My Grandmother's Hands, children (ages three to eight) and caregivers will experience the beauty of the connection between generations. This beautifully...

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of...

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize...

  The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're...

Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who...

On November 28, 1973, the world's social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time the curtain came...

“Punching the Air is the profound sound of humanity in verse. About a boy who uses his creative mind to overcome the creativity of racism. About...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction: The modern classic that Oprah.com calls...

Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry | Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryA searing volume...

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary ClintonThe four most powerful African American women in politics share the story...

Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes...

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the...

In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as "both a treatise and a romp"Baby Ralph has ways to pass the...

  "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the...

  From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply...

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by The New York TimesTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends...

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America  Longlisted for the...