Coming in October: Four LyricPop Picture Books That Will Make Your Kids Sing
Now available for Preorder.
Category: News
Now Available—LyricPop: A New Picture Book Series!
Akashic Books is pleased to announce LyricPop, A New Picture Book Series Presenting Your Favorite Song Lyrics, Launching today.
A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Is One of Vanity Fair‘s Best of 2019!
Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar, released in October 2019, was selected as an Editors’ Pick for Vanity Fair‘s Best Books of 2019 by Copy Production Director Anderson Tepper. His recommendation reads: “Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar is the most recent in an impressive new wave of novels by Jamaican writers—from Marlon James‘s Booker […]
HOLIDAY SALE: 50% off all titles!
Get 50% off all our books through the end of Cyber Monday using code BF2019 at checkout!
Santa Cruz Noir Honored in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019!
Two stories from Santa Cruz Noir have been honored in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019!
Bernardine Evaristo Wins the 2019 Booker Prize!
Congratulations to Akashic author Bernardine Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other has won the 2019 Booker Prize!
Bernardine Evaristo Longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize!
Congratulations to Bernardine Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other has been longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize!
SANTA CRUZ NOIR Story Nominated for Shamus Award!
Congratulations to Elizabeth McKenzie from SANTA CRUZ NOIR on her Shamus Award nomination!
Featured: Black Interest
-
The Game Don’t Change
-
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be
-
The Necessary Hunger
-
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
-
Sale
Amiri Baraka 3-for-1 Sale!
-
Black Orchid Blues
-
Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics
-
We Matter: Athletes and Activism
-
Discretion
-
Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn
-
What Is Hip-Hop?
-
Bernice L. McFadden Digit