Collection: Classics

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...

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...

This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her short but...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic...

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking...

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and Black international politics. A vital document of Black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer...

Aretha Franklin Greatest Hits (Vinyl) - Beyond the timeless classic hits such as "Respect," "A Natural Woman," "Chain Of Fools," "Think," "Daydreaming" and "Freeway Of...

A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X —  A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on...

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American...

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica...

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...

A canvas tote bag celebrating Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel of two sisters' triumph in the face of significant adversity in 1930s southern Georgia....

A classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as "an original and hugely insightful writer" by The New York Times--with an...

In one of the best-loved volumes of her work, J. California Cooper tells exuberant tales full of wonder at the mystery of life and the...

Discover the 20th Anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's unforgettable National Book Award Finalist story collection--complete with a new story.   Arriving one year after the...

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,...

From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century—Zora Neale Hurston.A woman...

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose...

This lost classic takes a mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s New York and Detroit. Zooming between the bohemian demimonde of New...