Akashic Books: 356 books

Akashic will be promote the book to the trades and to Caribbean media. The title will be catalogued as already available with an July 2018 pub date. Featuring brand-new writing by: Tracy Assing (Trinidad and Tobago), Heather Barker (Barbados), Angela Barry (Bermuda), Cecil Browne (St...

Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes. With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. The first two installments continue selling well for us -- we're now in our third printing of Book One, and we have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. We have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to Little Brown in the UK. TV producer Meryl Poster optioned the entire 4-book series for TV. The...

One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2015 "A punk primer for the youngest set....Yi's incredibly detailed clay figures are a kinetic and inspired art choice. Their crazy creativity matches the expressive spirit of punk....As [Morse] points out, the best way to learn about punk it...

10,000-copy first printing (publishing simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audio). Shannon Holmes's debut novel, B-More Careful, is a genre-defining urban lit book that has sold over 350,000 copies. Holmes is a titan of the urban lit genre. Since that book's publication, Holmes...

"Irresistible...playfully existential." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Bear's search for himself doesn't matter so much as the charm of Lavie's storytelling voice as he narrates it...Erlbruch gives the bear big, puzzled-looking eyes and a lovable grin. He lives in a forest made of...

A teenage girl and her brother fight for their family’s future in a world devastated by climate change: “Thrillingly scary . . . There is much here to enjoy” (The Washington Post). In a dystopian future brought about by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother, Sam,...

After a flu pandemic, a man with a terminal illness becomes one of the few survivors in a transformed world: “Fast-moving, violent, and vividly imagined.” —David Poyer, USA Today–bestselling author of Hunter Killer Diagnosed with Huntington’s disease as a child, Kade never expected...

Included in Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 feature "Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi's meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous...

"A hilarious book about the city vs. suburb divide." --New York Post, a Must-Read Book "City Mouse is a sharp and sophisticated novel of suburban life with a narrative voice that is equal parts witty, observant, and vulnerable. A wonderful debut! --Susan Isaacs, New York Times...

“A Huck Finn for our environmentally damaged age, lost on a river, and moving downstream with humane monsters and monstrous humans.” —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author Two fourteen-year-old runaways hell-bent on reaching California end up aboard the Tamzene, a mysterious...

The author of Foamers returns to a postapocalyptic world where a band of survivors must dodge humans transformed into monsters . . . After surviving a devastating pandemic and a disastrous attempt to halt it with a vaccine, Kade has found out the hard way that the world is more populated than...

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction! "Recalls both Hellman's The Children's Hour and Lehane's Mystic River in a story about murder and false accusations." --Bay Area Reporter "A tense story about a small town swept up in bigotry and paranoia after the...