Home Girl
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
Quiet City Limited Edition Preorder
The Angel at the Gates
The Royal We
Grandma, What’s That? Countdown to Christmas: A Nine Mile Babies Adventure
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond
Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO
Featured: Black Interest
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
This nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of eight African poets.
Party: A Mystery
A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will be SIGNED by Ricardo Cortés.
Upcoming Events
Virgin Islands Noir — Bajo el Sol Gallery (St. John, VI)
10/17/26, 5:00pm
Richard Georges presents Virgin Islands Noir with contributors Raven Phillips and Hadiya Sewer.
Steve Schirripa — ReRead Books & More (Cheshire, CT)
10/17/26, 3:00pm
Steve Schirripa presents WillieBoy Eats the World.
News & Features
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Exclusive Quiet City Preorder
Now available for preorder: Quiet City Limited Edition Preorder
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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.
- Ani DiFranco Preorder Package and Other Special Offers
- 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
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
- Exclusive Robyn Hitchcock Preorder Package
- Exclusive Gina Gershon Preorder Package
- Now Available: Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?
- Akashic Remembers Elizabeth Nunez