The Schrödinger Girl
When a young woman appears to split into four different versions of herself, protagonist and behavioral psychologist Garrett Adams must decide what is vision, what is science, and what is delusion.
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131 Different Things
An intimate novella of love and loss wrought from the cultural underground, perfectly expressed in an inventive object that rediscovers the magical possibilities of the book.
Addis Ababa Noir (Ethiopia)
Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don’t.
Adios Muchachos
More Cuban noir from Akashic! (Following the success of Outcast by José Latour—nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Firecracker awards.)
The Age of Dreaming
The Age of Dreaming explores the history of Los Angeles, the heady beginnings of the movie industry, and the interplay of race and celebrity.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Stories and Essays
An enthralling collection of short fiction and nonfiction that draw upon McLoughlin’s three-decade career in the criminal justice system.
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Alice Fantastic
Estep’s best novel to date explores with deep wit and insight how a shocking family secret impacts the lives of an eccentric mother and her two daughters.
All or Nothing
What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.
All Waiting Is Long
The much-anticipated sequel to Barbara J. Taylor’s best-selling debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night.
American Visa
Bolivia’s #1 novel is finally translated into English. Translated by Adrian Althoff, with an afterword by Ilan Stavans.
Amsterdam Noir (Netherlands)
Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
Andean Express
Bolivia’s preeminent fiction writer eclipses the successful English translation of American Visa with a riveting murder mystery. Translated by Adrian Althoff.
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.
The Anger Meridian
Following her husband’s suspicious death, Merryn Huntley flees with her daughter to Mexico, where she discovers she can’t outrun self-deception.
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.
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
Beautiful Music
A funny, poignant, thoughtfully rendered novel about love, fear, death, race, music, and the intense passions of youth.
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Becoming Abigail
A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand.
Bedrock Faith
A deeply engaging debut novel about a morality clash in an insular Chicago neighborhood.
Belgrade Noir (Serbia)
Belgrade, with all of its historical complexity, joins Zagreb and Prague in representing the Eastern European dimension of the Akashic Noir Series.
Bellini and the Sphinx
The highly entertaining debut crime-fiction novel from Brazilian music icon and best-selling author Bellotto is finally published in English.
Berkeley Noir
Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir.
Berlin Noir (Germany)
Now, Berlin’s noir tradition—fueled by history, geography, and various literary traditions—adds up to a powerful volume of riveting short stories.
The Bernice L. McFadden Collection
Four Bernice L. McFadden classics collected into a single digital edition.
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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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Bicycle
The latest release from Hotel St. George Press, following The Session and The Musical Illusionist.
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 Lotus
Finding the Black Lotus murderer is Detective Wolf’s chance to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation. That’s when things get personal.
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Black Lotus 2: The Vow
After the death of a police officer, assassin Kahllah (aka the Black Lotus) is forced out of retirement in an attempt to clear her name while outrunning a mysterious enemy.
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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.
Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
From the best-selling author Joe Meno, a moving novel about the impossibility of fate and family
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The Book of Harlan
During World War II, two African American musicians are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The Book of Love and Hate
A literary international espionage novel, with some eroticism to boot, set between Israel and New York.
Boundaries
A powerful immigrant story of family, love, assimilation, and a provocative look inside the contemporary book business.
The Boy Detective Fails
Following the best seller Hairstyles of the Damned (more than 100,000 copies sold) with a spectacular coming-of-age-30 tale, Joe Meno proves once again why he’s the hottest indie author in America. Also check out Office Girl, Demons in the Spring, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire.
Boy Genius
Selected for the 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List & selected as a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award.
Broke Heart Blues
The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates.
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Broken Circle
For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It’s downright skeletal.
Bronx Biannual Issue No. 2: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature
The second issue of the groundbreaking new literary journal.
Bronx Biannual: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature
A literary journal’s debut featuring writing from: Donnell Alexander, Federico Anderson, Dana Crum, Michael A. Gonzales, KRS-One, Michael C. Ladd, Ferentz Lafargue, Reginald Lewis, Adam Mansbach, Caille Millner, muMs, and Greg Tate.
The Brothers’ Lot
A hilarious and satirical debut novel exploring religious hypocrisy in an Irish secondary school.
Buster: A Dog
Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog’s life—from the dog’s perspective—on the streets of Washington, DC
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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.
Caught Up
Author of the mega–best seller B-More Careful (350,000 sales) is back with an irresistible hard-boiled crime story.
Cervantes Street
A mesmerizing fictional account of the life of Miguel de Cervantes and the controversial anonymous “sequel” to Don Quixote.
Changers Book Four: Forever
The masterful and dramatic final installment in the highly acclaimed Changers YA series pulls no punches.
Changers Book One: Drew
The cheerleader, the nerd, the jock, the freak. What if you had to be all four?
Changers Book Three: Kim
In Book Three of this acclaimed YA series, Oryon Small transforms into Kim, an Asian American girl who must learn to separate body image from self-worth.
Changers Book Two: Oryon
In Book Two of the Changers Series, our protagonist undergoes a second transformation—returning to a male body.
City Mouse
City Mouse is an irresistible debut that examines what it means to find your place, revealing unspoken truths about motherhood, friendship, and the thorny pursuit to have it all.
Cityside
Once one of New York’s most respected investigative reporters, Pulitzer Prize nominee Heffernan takes readers behind the scenes at a major New York newspaper.
The Cocaine Chronicles
The best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring all-new stories from Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody, Nina Revoyr, and many more.
The Committee
Professor Tom Stall’s career and life are threatened when a nefarious government-affiliated group of men begin investigating the private acts of innocent people in late 1950s Florida.
Complete Noir Series Set for $900
For a limited time, purchase a complete set of Akashic’s Noir Series for $900, and get a signed copy of USA Noir with your order!
Cornelius Sky
A doorman at a posh apartment building gets lost in the mean New York City streets, battling his demons as he searches for life’s higher meaning.
Cosmogramma
A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.
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Creatures of Passage
With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.
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Curse the Names
Robert Arellano, author of the Edgar-nominated crime novel Havana Lunar, returns with another spine-tingling noir from Akashic Books.
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, and more.
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Dance of the Jakaranda
Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya’s railroad.
A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.
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The Darkest Hearts
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George’s D Hunter mystery series.
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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery
A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity.
Demons in the Spring
New paperback edition; twenty artists illustrate twenty stories from the best-selling author of Hairstyles of the Damned.
Denver Noir
Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils.
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The Descartes Highlands
The American debut novel by the winner of the National Book Award of the Philippines.
Devil’s Midnight
Kapralov depicts the desperate struggles of his characters—Yuri’s stubborn military resistance, Nata’s fanatical commitment to guard the mysterious powers of a sacred meteorite, and Alexey’s struggles simply to survive—with a perfect balance of intensity and nonchalance.
The Devil’s Song
There’s a killer on the loose in Mission County, Pennsylvania . . . whose next victim might be the prosecuting attorney.
The Dewey Decimal System
Debut novelist Larson presents the first book in a literary-noir series featuring an obsessive-compulsive protagonist in a ravaged New York City.
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.
Don Dimaio of La Plata
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the modern novel, Akashic Books publishes a Don Quixote for the era of graft: racketeering politicians, stolen elections, and total-bullshit recalls!
Drug Chronicles (5-Book Set)
For a limited time, receive paperback copies of all books currently in our Drug Chronicles series (The Nicotine Chronicles, The Marijuana Chronicles, The Heroin Chronicles, The Speed Chronicles, and The Cocaine Chronicles) for $40, plus shipping!
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.
East Village Tetralogy
The first book of plays from the author of the cult-classic The Fuck-Up (over 100,000 copies in print).
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.
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Echoing Jonathan Swift, Preston L. Allen breaks new ground with a novel that is part allegory, part fantasy.
The Eye of Cybele
The Ancient Greek thriller from the author of Adios Muchachos, winner of an Edgar Award.
The Failure
California Book Award–winner Greer presents a hilarious and immaculately written story set in LA, exploring the inevitability of failure.
The Fall of Heartless Horse
The fourth installment and first female author in Dennis Cooper’s groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series.
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.
Fighting in the Shade
A riveting novel of ideas exploring the perils of hazing and feverish masculinity on a high school football team.
Firewater
Life is teetering on the edge of the apocalypse in and around the tiny Washington State coastal community that occupies the center of Firewater, a posthumously released, brutally funny environmental suspense novel.
The Five Books of (Robert) Moses
A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history, presaging today’s political tyranny.
The Freedom Artist
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.
Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery
In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life
*Winner of a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for Western Mystery
*A finalist for the 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical
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The Game Don’t Change
The posthumous novel from legendary Queens rapper Mazaradi Fox, who was once a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit crew.
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!
Gathering of Waters
Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious, McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till.
Getting It Right
Half-sisters Kara and Alex—one the biracial product of foster care, the other of dysfunctional privilege—struggle for redemption and forgiveness.
Gina B. Nahai Two Book Set
For a limited time, purchase both The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. and Tehran Noir together for only $15!
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.
God Carlos
A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early 16th-century Jamaica.
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?
Grab Bag
Cult novelist Dennis Cooper launches the third title of Little House on the Bowery, the Akashic series he is editing and promoting.
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.
Hairstyles of the Damned
The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.
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.
Headless
The third installment in cult novelist Dennis Cooper’s groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series.
Heart of the Old Country
Basis for the major motion picture The Narrows, starring Kevin Zegers, Vincent D’Onofrio, Sophia Bush, and Eddie Cahill.
Hell’s Kitchen
Armstead Maupin meets Carl Hiaasen in a brilliant black comedy that traces the paths of disparate characters floating through New York, about to collide in a treacherous story that will make you think twice about ever answering a classified ad.
Here Lies a Father
Fifteen-year-old Ian Daly’s moral universe is turned upside down when, at his father’s funeral, he discovers that his father had two secret families.
The Heroin Chronicles
The latest entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series. Heroin has long been understood as the most “literary” of narcotics, and this collection will, for better and worse, have tremendous pop cultural appeal.
Hidden Place
Shiflett’s suspenseful and provocative literary debut, set in Chicago and Puerto Escondido, a small Mexican beach town 150 miles south of Acapulco.
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel)
Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America’s most controversial American icons.
HNIC
Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.
HNIC (limited edition signed package)
Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.
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.
Hong Kong Noir
Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.
Honolulu Noir
The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochure.
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Houston Noir
The fourth-largest city in the US is long overdue to enter the Noir Series arena, and does so blazingly.
How Did Humans Go Extinct?
Let’s learn about the most mystifying species to ever walk the Earth!
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How the Hula Girl Sings
Paperback reissue of the second novel from the author of the smash hits Hairstyles of the Damned, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.
The Hungered One
Akashic launches an African American–focused reprint series with this classic story collection.
I Disappeared Them
A serial killer’s desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller
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I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana
Introducing the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, given by the National Poetry Series, featuring an introduction by Rigoberto González, and presented in both Spanish and English.
The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories
Jones’s only collection of stories is back in print, with a new preface by daughter Kaylie Jones and a brand new study guide.
Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed / Ima y coli son el arbol que nunca fue semilla
The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author’s impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima, Mexico.
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The Immune System
Larson’s antihero storms back in the explosive final installment in the Dewey Decimal hard-boiled, crime-fiction trilogy.
Inconvenient Daughter
A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption.
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.
It’s Just a Plant: A Children’s Story About Marijuana, Updated Edition
A beautifully illustrated picture book that gives parents a way to discuss marijuana with children without encouraging them to use it.
Joe Meno Collection (Four Book Set)
For a limited time, purchase four of Joe Meno’s titles (Hairstyles of the Damned, Office Girl, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender as Hellfire) for only $25!
The Joe Meno Digit
Excerpts from all seven of Joe Meno’s titles: Marvel and a Wonder, Office Girl, Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, Demons in the Spring, Tender as Hellfire, and How the Hula Girl Sings.
John Crow’s Devil
The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.
Jonah Sees Ghosts
Jonah Sees Ghosts is a shocking, touching, and humorous first novel that blends magical realism with a figurative study of how alcohol abuse shapes the personalities within a family.
The Kaleidoscope Sisters
Fifteen-year-old Quinn faces an impossible decision in this quest of sisterhood and self-sacrifice.
Kamikaze Lust
Kamikaze Lust takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America.
Kaylie Jones Books (Four Book Set)
For a limited time, purchase Unmentionables, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, The Love Book, and Starve the Vulture together for only $25!
Kaylie Jones Books Digit
The free The Kaylie Jones Books Digit features excerpts from our three Kaylie Jones Books releases.
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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A Killing for Christ
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Hamill’s thrilling and provocative 1968 debut novel, with a brand-new introduction by the author.
Knucklehead
A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African American attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.
Las Cucarachas
Award-winning author Yongsoo Park presents a powerful coming-of-age story of a young boy on the edges of New York City.
The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis
A phenomenal debut novella to further establish the literary excellence of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series.
Like Son
A post-punk story of outsiders, family, inherited drama, and love set in downtown New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Like This Afternoon Forever
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels.
Limbo
An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway.
Little Beasts
In this evocative debut, the accidental murder of an eight-year-old forces a working-class community to face its demons.
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.
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Lost Canyon
In Revoyr’s most thrilling novel to date, four backpackers embark on a trip in the Sierra Nevada that quickly becomes a disaster.
The Love Book
An anti–romantic comedy about the misadventures of four women who meet on a singles’ bike trip.
Love Maps
Violence and loss shatter Sarah Marker’s domestic life, causing her to reexamine the roots of creativity and art in New York City.
Loving Donovan
A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history.
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
Part murder mystery and part family saga, this dramatic and often hilarious novel explores the history of Los Angeles’s Iranian Jewish community.
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.
Manhattan Loverboy
Manhattan Loverboy (MLB) is paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism.
The Marijuana Chronicles
Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, and others take short fiction to a higher level (though they don’t inhale).
Marvel and a Wonder
Grandfather and grandson must journey into the underworld of the American Midwest in search of both courage and redemption.
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The Mastermind
Based on a true, ripped-from-the-headlines story, a voyage into the noir heart of present-day Guatemala.
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.
ME: A Novel
The unsettling story of a young man who suffers an identity crisis after getting tangled up in a telephone scam.
The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse
Dennis Cooper unveils a mesmerizing debut story collection for his Little House on the Bowery fiction series.
The Mercury Fountain
An enchanting first novel exploring a fractured utopian community on the Texas/Mexico border at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Merry Month of May
Classic Jones reissued, with a new preface by National Book Award–winner Larry Heinemann.
Miami Noir: The Classics
The long-awaited sequel to 2006’s best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise.
A Million Aunties
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.
Milwaukee Noir
In Milwaukee Noir, a city of manufacturers and booze, as well as a growing immigrant community, makes perfect grist for the Noir Series mill.
The Moment Before Drowning
In 1959, a French Resistance hero investigates a murder in a small Breton town, while awaiting his own trial.
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.
The Musical Illusionist and Other Tales
The second installment from Hotel St. George Press, following the release of The Session by Aaron Petrovich.
Nairobi Noir (Kenya)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
The Names of Rivers
A tightly crafted search for redemption and forgiveness within the shadows of a family’s military past, by the author of Water in Darkness.
The Narcissism of Small Differences
A hilarious and poignant novel about growing up, buying in, selling out, and the death of irony.
While supplies last, books ordered through the website will have bookplates SIGNED by Michael Zadoorian!
Native Believer
The long-awaited debut novel from acclaimed author Eteraz; a darkly comic, provocative, and insightful vision of the contemporary American experience.
The Necessary Hunger
Akashic Books reissues Nina Revoyr’s inspired and groundbreaking 1997 debut novel about women’s basketball, class, racial identity, and friendship.
Necropolis
A gorgeously written and tightly plotted mystery novel that brings the city of Delhi alive, in ways both enchanting and provocative.
The Nervous System
Larson’s antihero Dewey Decimal is back in this bombastic and soulful sequel to The Dewey Decimal System.
We still have a very limited number of the limited edition, signed hardcover copies of The Nervous System available for purchase while supplies last! To place an order, select the “limited hardcover edition” option in the add-to-cart drop-down menu above!
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 Nicotine Chronicles
Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine’s scintillating alter egos.
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The Night of the Rambler
A gorgeously written and highly entertaining debut novel about a small island’s struggle for independence from Britain.
The Nina Revoyr Digit
The Nina Revoyr Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Lost Canyon, Wingshooters, The Age of Dreaming, and Southland.
Nina Revoyr Three Book Set
For a limited time, purchase three of Nina Revoyr’s titles (Wingshooters, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming) together for only $20!
No Space for Further Burials
A haunting, exquisitely written novel exploring the true devastation of the US war in Afghanistan.
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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Nowhere Is a Place
The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.
Office Girl
Best-selling novelist Joe Meno is back with a fantastic new novel about two young people and a visionary, doomed art movement.
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.
Out of Mesopotamia
Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding of the war novel.
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The Painted Gun
A washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders.
Palm Springs Noir
Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California’s Noir Series arena.
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Paris Noir: The Suburbs
Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.
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The Partition
A thrilling new story collection from acclaimed writer Don Lee exploring Asian American identity, spanning decades and continents.
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Party: A Mystery
A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
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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.
The Perfume Burned His Eyes
Emmy-winning actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, The White Lotus, etc.) brilliantly evokes 1970s New York in this Holden Caulfield–esque debut
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Pills and Starships
Millet’s first YA novel explores a world devastated by global warming, and two teenagers determined to survive against all odds.
Please Take Me Off the Guest List
Please Take Me Off the Guest List is the latest in a series of creative collaborations by New York City artists and friends Zachary Lipez, Nick Zinner, and Stacy Wakefield.
Polar Vortex
A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts.
Praise Song for the Butterflies
A young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa.
Prayer for the Living
Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.
The Price of Escape
Three days in the life of Samuel Berkow, a German Jew escaping Nazi Germany by boat to Guatemala in 1938.
Prospero’s Daughter
The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s captivating novel Prospero’s Daughter, a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Rain Breaks No Bones
Set in 1955, this final installment in Taylor’s best-selling Scranton Trilogy explores a family’s legacy of loss and a sometimes mystical vision of a better tomorrow
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Random
From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: a rollicking crime caper that will bend your mind like a spoon.
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The Reluctant King
The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets.
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The Reservoir
Now in paperback, a former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate; from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny
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The Reservoir (Paperback Edition)
Now in paperback, a former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate; from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny
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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.
Santa Fe Noir
Santa Fe joins Phoenix as a riveting Southwest US installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
The Sexy Part of the Bible
Romance and political intrigue cloud the many lives of a diabolical African supermodel harboring a shocking secret.
The Shark Curtain
In Scofield’s powerful debut, teenager Lily Asher takes her first steps toward a strange, loving journey to self-acceptance and belonging.
The Show that Smells
Derek McCormack’s most compelling work yet is his second selection in Dennis Cooper’s groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery fiction series.
A Simple Distance
A provocative debut that masterfully fuses issues of culture, race, sexuality, and family.
Since You Ask
Since You Ask is about the origins of sexual compulsion, and one young woman’s attempts to be free.
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night
A page-turning debut novel set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the height of coal mining, vaudeville, and evangelism.
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.
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
The novel that inspired the Merchant Ivory film is back in print! With a new author’s introduction and a previously unpublished chapter.
Some Go Hungry
A gripping portrait of a rural Indiana town still reeling from the unsolved 1980s murder of a gay teen.
Some of the Parts
The novel that’s changing the way we define “family.” The Osbournes, Sopranos, and Eminem are only “some of the parts” that make up the whole story of the new American family.
Song for Night
Chris Abani’s new novella furthers his reputation as the most acclaimed young African writer today.
South by South Bronx
Undistilled noir in the much-anticipated third novel from the American Book Award–winning Bronx native.
South Central Noir
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recognized neighborhoods.
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South Haven
Grief, violence, and history collide to offer a radical look at childhood and migration in suburban New England.
South of the Pumphouse
A debut novel from the art-rock pioneer and frontman of Primus, Les Claypool.
Speculative Los Angeles
The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes—each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.
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The Speed Chronicles
Following the international success of the Noir Series, this volume marks the launch of a new drug-based sister series.
A Student of History
A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continuously shaped by the past.
Suicide Casanova (Hardcover Edition)
The critically acclaimed psychological drama from the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up and Manhattan Loverboy.
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Suicide Casanova (Paperback Edition)
The critically acclaimed psychological drama from the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up and Manhattan Loverboy.
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The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory
A riveting coming-of-age story that follows a young woman who squats abandoned buildings with comrades in 1990s New York City.
Swanna in Love
Best-selling author Belle (High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten years
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Swing
An erotic drama about four sexy couples and one swingers’ club where their fantasies and nightmares collide.
Sydney Noir (Australia)
Australia can no longer be held back from the Akashic Noir Series; herein, Sydney reveals itself to be a world-class hub of noir.
Synthetic Bi Products
Sparrow L. Patterson’s debut novel follows a nineteen-year-old bisexual girl on her whirlwind journey of sexual escapades, drug-induced hallucinations, shoplifting sprees, and other criminal behavior.
The System of Dante’s Hell
A reissue of a 1965 novel, a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, spiraling out of Dante’s Inferno.
Tales
This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion, featuring writing that is provocative, witty, bitter, and aggressive.
Tales of the Out & the Gone
Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection—an Essence Magazine best-seller—will shock and awe.
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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Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay joins Miami in representing the (alleged) Sunshine State in the Noir Series arena.
Tehran at Twilight
Friendship, betrayal, and international intrigue populate this brilliant novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carré.
Tell the Rest
Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart
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Tender as Hellfire
Paperback reissue of the debut novel by the author of the best sellers The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings and Hairstyles of the Damned (more than 70,000 copies sold).
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 Third Mrs. Galway
Antislavery agitation is rocking Utica in 1835 when a young bride discovers an enslaved family hiding in her shed, setting in motion the exhumation of long-buried family secrets.
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The Third Squad
A dark, complex morality tale exploring the limits of justice in contemporary Mumbai.
A Time Gone By
A historical mystery by bestseller Heffernan in the tradition of Chandler and Hammett.
To Funk and Die in LA
Ex-bodyguard D Hunter is swept into the City of Angels on a dark mission to find his mysterious grandfather’s killer.
The Tower of the Antilles
Obejas’s stories of contemporary Cuba explore how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.
The Uncomfortable Dead (What’s Missing is Missing)
A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico’s greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary.
The Underdog Parade
During the summer of the drought, a boy must decide if his neighbor’s ark is lunacy or a lifeline.
An Unkindness of Ghosts
A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.
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Unmentionables
A powerful debut historical novel to launch a new imprint, Kaylie Jones Books, curated by acclaimed author Kaylie Jones.
Userlands: New Fiction from the Blogging Underground
An anthology of new fiction writers who are using the Internet to develop their work; part of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series.
Vancouver Noir (Canada)
Following the success of Montreal Noir and Toronto Noir, the Noir Series travels to the west coast of Canada.
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.
Water in Darkness
A taut, disturbing novel that examines the Vietnam War’s living legacy and plumbs the depths of human sadness.
We Are All Crew
A satirical adventure story featuring two young teens, in the style of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
When Johnny Came Marching Home
In Heffernan’s best novel to date, a young, one-armed Civil War veteran investigates the death of a troubled fellow soldier in 1860s Vermont and Virginia.
Wide Eyed
Part of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series, this collection of stories is told by a woman compelled to divulge her secrets, fantasies, and obsessions.
Wingshooters
Revoyr’s novel examines the effects of change on a small, isolated town, the strengths and limits of community, and the sometimes conflicting loyalties of family and justice.
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Now in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” and two new stories!
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The Year of Needy Girls
A young boy’s murder unleashes chaos in the life of a schoolteacher and a small New England town.
You Must Be This Happy to Enter
Denial, God, dystopia, academic, and reality TV collide in acclaimed author Crane’s third story collection from Punk Planet Books, the imprint that launched indie smash hit Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno.
Zero O’Clock
For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.
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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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Felony Juggler
Forthcoming: 5/6/25
From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: a street performer finds himself enmeshed in a crime and must outwit his fellow conspirators in his greatest juggling act yet.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before May 6, 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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