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Out this month · August 2026

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Take What You Can by Naima Coster
Out August 4
Take What You Can
Naima Coster

Coster's third novel follows Val and Milly, who became friends as the only Black students on a study-abroad trip to France. A decade later, raising daughters a block apart in Brooklyn, they test how far friendship stretches across class and circumstance.

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Majestic Hills by Dawn Turner
Out August 4
Majestic Hills
Dawn Turner

A Black couple trades their downtown Chicago condo for a quiet suburban subdivision, only for the neighborhood's secrets to erupt into a shocking crime. A thriller from the author of the memoir Three Girls from Bronzeville.

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Triage by Claudia Rankine
Out August 4
Triage
Claudia Rankine

Rankine's first book after the American trilogy, and her most personal. Two women who call each other sister work through the wounds in their shared history, in a mix of narrative and criticism printed with full-color visuals.

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Dèy: A Novel by Edwidge Danticat
Out August 25
Dèy: A Novel
Edwidge Danticat

Danticat's first novel in ten years. A Haitian American woman is caught in a random act of violence one sunny day in Florida, and the aftermath unsettles what she thought she knew about her family and herself.

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