The Warmest December
The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s best-selling second novel praised by Toni Morrison, USA Today, Washington Post, and others—published simultaneously with McFadden’s new novel Gathering of Waters.
Tuff Gnarl Limited Edition Preorder
A Good Haunting: Stories
Grandma, What’s That? Countdown to Christmas: A Nine Mile Babies Adventure
The Royal We
The Angel at the Gates
Quiet City Limited Edition Preorder
Featured: Black Interest
Discretion
Elizabeth Nunez’s reissued fourth novel is a haunting, mesmerizing exploration into the often destructive price of passion.
Tender Headed
Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally playful meditation on Black identity and masculinity
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Upcoming Events
Kira Tucker — NYU Creative Writing Reading Series (New York, NY)
11/6/26, 5:00pm
Kira Tucker presents Wildest: Poems.
Carol Mitchell — BVI Lit Fest (Tortola, BVI)
11/6/26, 9:00am
What does the future look like from an island? For generations, Caribbean storytellers have imagined worlds beyond the horizon, futures shaped by climate change, technology, migration, folklore, resilience, and possibility. Long before “speculative fiction” became a genre, Caribbean people were imagining what comes next. In What Tomorrow Say, three celebrated writers, including Karen Lord (Angel […]
News & Features
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Exclusive Chuck D Preorder
Now available for preorder: the latest “naphic grovel” by rap legend Chuck D
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Exclusive David Duchovny Preorder Package
The new paperback edition of David Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time, is now available for preorder.
- Listen to “Imaginary Composition” by Sonnenzimmer
- Listen to “Beginnings, Endings, and Other Musical Figures” by Joseph Fuller
- Listen to “Catastrophe Will Never Let You Down” by Adam Gwon, performed by Margo Seibert
- Listen to “Leave it Alone” by Jason Kaminski
Akashic Insider
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SCAM ALERT!!!
This year we’ve gotten hundreds (thousands?) of reports that scammers are impersonating (or inventing) Akashic Books staff . . .
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Exclusive Natasha Howard Preorder Package
Our exclusive preorder package for Natasha Howard’s new WNBA memoir is now available for preorder
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Exclusive Gina Gershon Preorder Package
Gina Gershon’s preorder package for her new memoir AlphaPussy is now available!
- Exclusive Robyn Hitchcock Preorder Package
- Now Available: Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?
- Akashic Remembers Elizabeth Nunez
- Quarantine Q&A: David Duchovny