Dawnie Walton's electrifying debut THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV has been named as a best-of book of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly. They hail the novel as a "kaleidoscopic tale,” adding that the book “bursts with fourth-wall breaks and clear-eyed takes on race, sex, and creativity that Walton unfurls in urgent, endlessly readable style." The novel was also featured on WBUR's summer reading recommendations. 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER by Jamie Figueroa was featured on Goodreads’ list of “24 New Family Dramas to Keep You Turning the Pages.” Catapult published the novel on March 2, 2021.

The revised edition of LONG DIVISION by Kiese Laymon was named a best-of book for summer 2021 by Elle Magazine. They praise: “HEAVY memoirist Kiese Laymon returns, this time with a fiercely creative novel combining time travel with institutionalized racism. The resulting saga winds from the 1980s to the 1960s and beyond, weaving a fractured but fascinating path through Black America.” Scribner published the novel on June 1, 2021.

Elle Magazine featured THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. on its “Essential Pride Reading List.” They write: “Just based on the modern media and publishing, one might think that queerness didn’t exist before the late 20th century, and certainly not for Black people. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. In THE PROPHETS, Jones takes readers back to a time in history when being Black and queer was unspeakable, and those who dared to love and be loved were true activists.” Amazon Book Review also featured THE PROPHETS as one of its Editors’ Picks for Pride month. Senior editor Erin Kodicek praises: “[A] lyrical but devastating debut novel that shines a harsher light on a shameful legacy that is still deeply felt today. It’s also a profound reminder of love’s power to repudiate it.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.

CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota received glowing praise from Claire Messud in Harper’s Magazine. She writes: “Sahota creates an all but unbearable tension...[She] is a restrained stylist whose details bloom in the imagination.” Viking will publish the book on July 13, 2021.

EVERYTHING NOW by Rosecrans Baldwin is a Los Angeles Times bestseller for the week of July 4, 2021, appearing at number 6 in Hardcover Nonfiction. MCD published the book on June 15, 2021.

In celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, Powell’s included TIGHTROPE by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as one of its “50 Books for 50 Years,” a list of books that “not only show us who we have been as a country and a species and where we are going, but the power of the right words, at the right time, to act as a mirror and a beacon.” Powell’s praises TIGHTROPE for “ris[ing] above the pack with its compassionate portrayal of its subjects, careful research, intersectional analysis, and thoughtful policy solutions.” Knopf published the book on January 14, 2020.