Adios Muchachos
More Cuban noir from Akashic! (Following the success of Outcast by José Latour—nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Firecracker awards.)
Subject: Caribbean Interest
African: A Children’s Picture Book
A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.
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All or Nothing
What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics & Flesh
Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.
The Angels’ Share
A Jamaican father and his adult son travel across the island together in a touching and humorous novel that explores family reconciliation.
Anna In-Between
Trade paperback reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Around Harvard Square
Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school’s iconic humor magazine.
As Flies to Whatless Boys
Tragedy and humor meet in an adventure-packed, historical novel about a British incursion into the island of Trinidad in 1845.
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business
An inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the founder of the most successful Caribbean business ever established in the US.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in US history.
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Bivouac
The death of a Jamaican man’s father raises questions about the father’s political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.
Black Marks
A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
Black Sheep Digit
In conjunction with the publication of Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet—the latest release from our Black Sheep imprint for Young Adults and Young Readers—we’ve created the Black Sheep Digit, comprising excerpts from Pills and Starships and our first two Black Sheep releases, Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper and Game World by C. J. Farley.
Boundaries
A powerful immigrant story of family, love, assimilation, and a provocative look inside the contemporary book business.
Cane Warriors
Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.
Caribbean Debuts Digit
The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean
Eight talented Caribbean poets are featured in this second publication from Peekash Press.
Curse the Names
Robert Arellano, author of the Edgar-nominated crime novel Havana Lunar, returns with another spine-tingling noir from Akashic Books.
Discretion
Elizabeth Nunez’s reissued fourth novel is a haunting, mesmerizing exploration into the often destructive price of passion.
Dog War
The highly anticipated new novel and debut US publication from the legendary Jamaican author of The Lunatic and The Duppy.
The Duppy
Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.
How funny is this social satire? Akashic Books’s pledge to our readers: Laugh out loud at least once or your money back. Seriously.
Elizabeth Nunez Digit
In celebration of the release of Elizabeth Nunez’s new memoir, Not for Everyday Use, our Elizabeth Nunez Digit comprises excerpts from the memoir along with her two Akashic novels: Boundaries and Anna In-Between..
Even in Paradise
A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.
The Eye of Cybele
The Ancient Greek thriller from the author of Adios Muchachos, winner of an Edgar Award.
The Family Mansion
An illuminating and unflinching novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica.
Fast Eddie, King of the Bees
Fast Eddie is a convoluted Oedipal adventure blending low-brow scenarios with high-art diction, reminiscent of Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Edmund White.
Game World
Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.
Go de Rass to Sleep
A Jamaican patois translation of the New York Times, Amazon.com, and Wall Street Journal number one best seller and worldwide phenomenon.
God Carlos
A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early 16th-century Jamaica.
Gomer’s Song
Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.
The Gospel According to Cane
After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell’s marriage fails. Years later, could a mysterious, lurking young man be her long-lost son?
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.
Haiti Noir
Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics
The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.
The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread
A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the world.
Havana Libre
The scintillating stand-alone sequel to Arellano’s 2010 Edgar Award finalist, Havana Lunar.
Havana Lunar
A literary crime novel on the last island of socialism, during a period of intense desperation.
Havana Noir (Cuba)
In the stories of Havana Noir, authors uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria, in a city characterized by ironic and wrenching contradictions.
I Am a Promise
An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican eight-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.
I Love You Too
Bob Marley’s first and most famous son, Ziggy, extends his devotion to youth with his debut children’s book.
*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ziggy Marley!
The Infinite Loop / El Lazo Infinito
A wonderful book from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, that explores the interconnection between pain, love, and hope
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Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop
Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.
Jamaican Digit
Excerpts from The Baker’s Son by Lowell Hawthorne, Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer, and God Carlos by Anthony C. Winkler.
John Crow’s Devil
The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.
Kemosha of the Caribbean
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.
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Kingston Noir (Jamaica)
Following in the Caribbean footsteps of Haiti Noir and Trinidad Noir, now come dark stories from Jamaica’s capital city.
The Lesser Tragedy of Death
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection from the best-selling author of Dreaming in Cuban.
Limbo
An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway.
Little John Crow
After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to be part of a community when you are a vulture.
*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ziggy Marley!
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The Lunatic
The first-ever US publication of the Caribbean comic classic that is also a major motion picture.
Makeda
The debut title from Akashic’s Open Lens imprint: a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind, from the nationally best-selling author Randall Robinson.
May Digit
Excerpts from our three May releases: Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen, The Family Mansion by Anthony C. Winkler, and the second installment in the Open Lens imprint, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave.
A Million Aunties
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.
Montague Kobbé Digit
The Montague Kobbé Digit comprises excerpts from The Night of the Rambler and On the Way Back, two stunning literary achievements set in Anguilla by one of the freshest new voices in world literature.
Mouths Don’t Speak
A Haitian immigrant in the US tries to stay emotionally afloat after the 2010 Haitian earthquake rips her family apart.
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab
A young man travels to Trinidad to reconnect with a transgender parent, uncovering the complex realities of love and family.
Mr. Loverman
A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world.
Music Is in Everything
A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen.
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My Dog Romeo
Ziggy Marley’s ode to his four-legged friend Romeo becomes a picture book that is sure to touch the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.
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New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
Discover some of the best in speculative short fiction from the Caribbean’s up-and-coming voices.
The Night of the Rambler
A gorgeously written and highly entertaining debut novel about a small island’s struggle for independence from Britain.
Not for Everyday Use
A riveting memoir in which Nunez comes to grips with her mother’s passing and her parents’ ambition for their children.
Now Lila Knows
There is nothing like racial injustice in America to teach an outsider the differences between perception and reality.
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On the Way Back
Kobbé’s hilarious social novel centers on a comically failed business venture on the island of Anguilla, brilliantly echoing A Confederacy of Dunces and Herman Wouk’s Don’t Stop the Carnival.
Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
A fascinating first-person origin story of Rastafari ideology, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican history
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Prospero’s Daughter
The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s captivating novel Prospero’s Daughter, a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Providential
Best-selling writer Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.
Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics
An American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anti-colonial thrust and a view toward charting a brighter future.
The Roving Tree
A powerful debut novel illuminating how adoptees struggle to recapture their personal histories and cultural legacy, part of Akashic’s Open Lens imprint.
San Juan Noir (Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rico’s capital city enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of San Juan’s best-known authors.
San Juan Noir (Spanish-language edition)
La capital de Puerto Rico entra la arena de la serie noir, editado meticulosamente por una de las autoras más conocidas de San Juan.
A Simple Distance
A provocative debut that masterfully fuses issues of culture, race, sexuality, and family.
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
Brand-new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen island countries around the world.
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.
Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality
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A Tall History of Sugar
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Thicker Than Water: New Writing from the Caribbean
The latest release from Caribbean publisher Peekash Press celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature
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The Tower of the Antilles
Obejas’s stories of contemporary Cuba explore how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.
Trinidad Noir
The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series.
Trinidad Noir: The Classics
Two of Trinidad’s top literary writers masterfully curate this retrospective of the nation’s best writing over the past century.
Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
A cookbook inspired by the food of Ziggy’s upbringing in the household of Bob and Rita Marley.
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Forthcoming Titles
My Own Dear People
Forthcoming: 4/1/25
A young Jamaican man struggles to overcome toxic masculinity—his culture’s and his own—in this Caribbean coming-of-age novel.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before April 1, 2025.
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Paradise Once
Forthcoming: 6/3/25
A historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean whose culture was virtually destroyed within two generations of their “discovery” by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before June 3, 2025.
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Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Forthcoming: 7/1/25
Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique behaviors while celebrating the bonds between generations and the wonders of the natural world.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before July 1, 2025.
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