Akashic Books: 356 books

The Paz Prize for Poetry is presented by The National Poetry Series and The Center @ Miami Dade College. This annual award -- named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz -- honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish (and presented bilingually...

"The White House is a fast-paced thriller that doesn't disappoint." --Urban Reviews "White House by JaQuavis Coleman starts with a bang and will leave you wanting more." --Book Referees "Kidnapping, murder, and mayhem lead [Draya]--and the reader--through a harrowing and twisting plot...

"A gritty, fast-paced tale of revenge...Tight, terse prose harkens back to pulp fiction of the 1950s...The work is a breath of fresh air from lengthy, trying-too-hard-to-shock street lit and is an excellent choice for all metropolitan collections." --Library Journal (starred review, Pick...

Launched by the summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In this chilling portrait...

"For readers who enjoy edgy rambles through the rock and roll life, 131 Different Things will be a journey worth taking." --The Current’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club "An engaging novella about a few jaded Lower East Side bartenders and their drug and booze filled quest to find...

“Thoroughly entertaining . . . from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.” —Publishers Weekly A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes...

"Jones has learned-and this has been very rare in jazz criticism-to write about music as an artist."-Nat Hentoff ks Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie...

Ziggy Marley in Concert was awarded a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album! "A sweetly affectionate ode to togetherness and love." --Publishers Weekly "Lyrics inspired by an exchange with Marley's 3-year-old daughter are set to bright paintings of a multicultural cast...

New Orleans is a great city for regionally-themed books. Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.

10,000-copy first printing Revoyr has a very large profile in Southern California and around the country. Push for library sales. Submit for major literary awards. Revoyr is a house favorite at Akashic Books.

The original San Francisco Noir is one of the top-selling titles in the Akashic Books Noir Series, now in its third printing.

A true believer is faced with a choice between love for his family and the Cuban Revolution. "Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas's Ruins is a breathtaker. Obejas writes like an angel, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of the Cuba's most important writers." -Junot...

“Authors whose dark take on humanity would be familiar to the likes of Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson. Story after story offers haunting images.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and...

Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.