Abortion & Life
Baumgardner’s groundbreaking new book includes abortion testimonials by Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, and others.
Subject: Women’s Studies
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.
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 Waiting Is Long
The much-anticipated sequel to Barbara J. Taylor’s best-selling debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night.
Anna In-Between
Trade paperback reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Auto Mechanic’s Daughter
Harryman’s lyrical voyage launches Nigerian author Chris Abani’s visionary new poetry imprint, Black Goat, with an introduction by Maurya Simon.
The Bernice L. McFadden Collection
Four Bernice L. McFadden classics collected into a single digital edition.
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Bernice L. McFadden Digit
In honor of her 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year selection—and in anticipation of the just-released paperback edition of Nowhere Is a Place, our Bernice L. McFadden Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Gathering of Waters, The Warmest December, Glorious, and Nowhere Is a Place.
Black Marks
A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
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.
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.
Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
A professional playbook offering guidance to women in the contemporary workplace.
Colaterales/Collateral
The debut winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series.
Conduit
Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat series presents the debut collection from one of America’s most promising young poets.
Controlled Decay
A highly ambitious and visionary poetry debut from the first Mexican author in Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat series.
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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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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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.
Face: One Square Foot of Skin
Writer/director/producer Justine Bateman examines the aggressive ways that society reacts to the aging of women’s faces.
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The Fall of Heartless Horse
The fourth installment and first female author in Dennis Cooper’s groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series.
Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
A passionate and critical analysis of the life cycle of Fame, from film producer/director and former worldwide TV star Justine Bateman.
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Five-Dog Epiphany: How a Quintet of Badass Bichons Retrieved Our Joy
A new installment in best-selling author Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint, actress Marianne Leone’s (The Sopranos, etc.) memoir explores how a bereaved couple and a pack of rescue dogs rediscovered joy.
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Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays from Washington, DC, and Beyond, 1997–2017
A long-overdue female-centric perspective on underground rock music, featuring photos by Tricarico and essays by Joan Jett, Amy Farina, Allison Wolfe, Donita Sparks, and more!
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing.
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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.
The Lesser Tragedy of Death
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection from the best-selling author of Dreaming in Cuban.
Lessons in Taxidermy
A riveting tale of sickness and survival from the first female author on the Punk Planet Books imprint that brought you the indie hit Hairstyles of the Damned.
Like Son
A post-punk story of outsiders, family, inherited drama, and love set in downtown New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar
A groundbreaking biography of the world’s first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod.
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.
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 Mercury Fountain
An enchanting first novel exploring a fractured utopian community on the Texas/Mexico border at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Necessary Hunger
Akashic Books reissues Nina Revoyr’s inspired and groundbreaking 1997 debut novel about women’s basketball, class, racial identity, and friendship.
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.
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.
Nowhere Is a Place
The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.
Particulate Matter
In concise and distilled prose, Lemus presents a collection of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits of a challenging year that threatened all she loved most.
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.
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be
The powerful memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era.
Prospero’s Daughter
The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s captivating novel Prospero’s Daughter, a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
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.
The Sexy Part of the Bible
Romance and political intrigue cloud the many lives of a diabolical African supermodel harboring a shocking secret.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood
In unflinchingly honest prose, Sugar Rodgers shares her inspiring story of overcoming tremendous odds to become an all-star in the WNBA.
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Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
Unmentionables
A powerful debut historical novel to launch a new imprint, Kaylie Jones Books, curated by acclaimed author Kaylie Jones.
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.
We Do!: American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Cherished former Vermont governor Kunin teams up with Baumgardner to tell the inspiring story of American politicians’ growing acceptance of gay marriage.
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.
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.
Forthcoming Titles
Post-Volcanic Folk Tales
Forthcoming: 12/3/24
A winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by acclaimed poet Ishion Hutchinson, Post-Volcanic Folk Tales is “incendiary art.”
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Monument Eternal
Forthcoming: 2/4/25
The long-awaited reissue of Alice Coltrane’s original spiritual teachings and reflections, which provide powerful insight into her transcendent music, cherished by millions across the globe.
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And Then Came the Blues: My Journey from Survivor to NYPD Detective First Grade and Beyond
Forthcoming: 8/5/25
After being shot ten times by her fiancé and left for dead, Katrina Brownlee miraculously survived and became a decorated NYPD detective, a mentor, and founder of a nonprofit support group for at-risk women.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before August 5, 2025.
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