Collection: Classics

  One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would...

  “When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels One of The Center for Fiction's 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature "Petry is the writer we have...

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998! “Nikki Giovanni...

A perennial New York Times bestseller and enduring classic of modern American culture. “Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much...

  Verna Aardema published her first set of stories, Tales from the Story Hat, in 1960. They were so successful that  she continued to adapt traditional tales...

Named one of the GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS of the last 100 years by The AtlanticThe 50th anniversary edition of the classic, freewheeling novel by one of...

Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the “50 Most Impactful Black Books...

Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction AnthologyShowcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and...

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed...

  From the award-winning author of A Raisin in the Sun, one of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, for the first time...

Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of...

  A gorgeous new edition of Book 1 of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their...

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin ClassicClaude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height...

A pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take...

A gorgeous new edition of Book 2 of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates...

A gorgeous new edition of Book 3 of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates...

A gorgeous new edition of Book 4 of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates...

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion...

The beloved novel about a New York City girlhood that heralded a renaissance in Black women’s literature, with a new foreword by Nicole Dennis-Benn, the...

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

Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America's greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other,...

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh...

Their Eyes Were Watching God, a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl...