Collection: Classics

  A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked...

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past,...

An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary...

Back in print after more than five years, this is the extraordinary first short story collection by the author of "Family." The extraordinary debut short...

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of Revolutionist Returnees...

  Includes a new foreward by Saidya Hartman Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A...

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet   In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship,...

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...

The foundational, classic anthology that revived interest in the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God--one of the greatest writers of our time--and made her work widely...

Winner of the American Book Award, a classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition"A lion in literature's forest. When...

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans,...

  Angela Davis' iconic 1985 essay on the role of art in social and racial liberation, illustrated by painter Tschabalala Self In her stirring and...

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes--heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister...

THE all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! A sturdy and beautiful book to give as...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials   The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully...

A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman’s Madness tells the story of Noenka,...

"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and...

A major work of American literature that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink...