(Hardback)
By: Roddy Bottum
ISBN: 9781636142692
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre-tech boom San Francisco
(Paperback)
By: Kwame Dawes
ISBN: 9781636142555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2025
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani's unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry.
(Hardback)
By: Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781636142326
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2025
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Rivers Solomon
ISBN: 9781617755880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2017
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.
(Hardback, 40th Anniversary ed.)
By: Ron Kovic
ISBN: 9781617754685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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This edition marks the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Kovic's American antiwar classic.
(Hardback)
By: C R Stecyk
ISBN: 9781617756993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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The bigger, newly designed edition of an iconic skateboarding book, including additional never-before-seen Glen E. Friedman photos and a new C.R. Stecyk III postscript.
(Paperback)
By: Greg Prato
ISBN: 9781636140681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2023
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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An oral history of the legendary band Primus, with a star-studded cast of interviewees (Tom Waits, Trey Anastasio, etc.)
(Hardback)
By: Ziggy Marley
ISBN: 9781617754838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2016
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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A cookbook inspired by the food of Ziggy's upbringing in the household of Bob and Rita Marley.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Mattson
ISBN: 9781617750281
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Hot on the heels of the infamous Noir series comes a drug based sister series
(Paperback)
By: Ian F. Svenonious
ISBN: 9781636140803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2023
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Rene Appel
ISBN: 9781617756146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th January 2019
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
(Paperback)
By: Hopeton Hay
ISBN: 9781636140896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Adrian McKinty
ISBN: 9781617752919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2014
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Lee Child, Eoin McNamee, and others explore the dark corners and alleyways of Belfast.
(Paperback, Annotated edition)
By: Jerry Thompson
ISBN: 9781617757976
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Andre Lewis Carter
ISBN: 9781617758775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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In the early 1970s, Csar 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.
(Hardback)
By: Andre Lewis Carter
ISBN: 9781636140759
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Kwan
ISBN: 9781636140506
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: LeRoi Jones
ISBN: 9781636140858
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People.
(Paperback)
By: Joe Meno
ISBN: 9781636140612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew Moskos
ISBN: 9781636141671
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Miles Marshall Lewis
ISBN: 9781933354040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Recording the rise and fall of blacks in all formulations of the black aesthetic, this journal offers an appreciation of high and low culture with a language aimed at the bourgeoisie and the boulevard. It includes fiction, some humour, and a combination of literary, artistic, theatrical, political, and cultural matters.
(Hardback)
By: Michelle Gadsden-Williams
ISBN: 9781617759116
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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A professional playbook offering guidance to women in the contemporary workplace.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins
ISBN: 9781617759109
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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The state of Ohio could only escape the Akashic Noir Series for so long...and now Andrew Welsh-Huggins leads the charge to reveal the city's underbelly.
(Paperback)
By: George Pelecanos
ISBN: 9781888451900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Akashic Books,U.S.
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Following the success of the award-winning best-seller "Brooklyn Noir", this is a series of Noir anthologies. Each is comprised of stories set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the book. Pimps, whores, gangsters and con-men run rampant in a side of Washington, DC most never see.
