**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR • BARACK OBAMANew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century****“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR • BARACK OBAMANew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century****“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” —The New York Times Book Review"Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." —The Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community.**Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” —The New York Times Book Review"Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." —The Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community.**Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an...

Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and fly home to Africa. This gives Claudie...

The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing HalfYou might think that feuds are about hatred, but really they are love stories.When Roz Randall and Cleo Wright form a singing group as teenagers in 1963, they are instantly bound by talent and ambition. Like their friendship, their fame appears fated—until rivalry seeps in. As their trajectories splinter and their lives churn through ...

The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing HalfYou might think that feuds are about hatred, but really they are love stories.When Roz Randall and Cleo Wright form a singing group as teenagers in 1963, they are instantly bound by talent and ambition. Like their friendship, their fame appears fated—until rivalry seeps in. As their trajectories splinter and their lives churn through ...

Claudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She believes everyone has a talent except for her. She’s growing up in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City during the 1920s, surrounded by writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. When an eviction notice threatens her family, friends, and the beloved boardinghouse they share, Claudie has an idea that ju...

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIrene Redfield is a Black woman living...

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Li...

A **NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERA REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon**Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient""Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pa...