Harlem Book Fair

07/10/2025

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08/25/2024

We cannot adequately articulate how hyped we are about the Children’s Corner happening at this year’s Harlem Book Fair. will be joining us and reading her book CESARIA FEELS THE BEAT!

The kiddos are going to love this so make sure to bring them with you!

08/24/2024

The memoir panel “I Was Here” will include discussing From Bitter to Better, a novella loosely based on her life. Stop by this year’s to hear her story.

08/24/2024

will be joining us at this year’s . While he has several nonfiction books under his belt, we are excited to hear him discuss his debut novel Sylvia’s Love and Loss.

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith is a Fellow with Global Americans and the Caribbean Policy Consortium, and a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A widely-published expert on Caribbean security, drugs, and crime, he has published numerous articles and books, the latest being Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming February 2024), and Oil and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Petro Power Basin, to be released in June by Routledge.

08/24/2024

If you thought you weren’t going to be able to join us at this year’s because you couldn’t find a babysitter, not to worrry cuz we gotchu! We have a special area just for the kiddos!

Joining us in the children’s corner is . An American journalist, writer, author, speaker, commentator, and college professor, the kiddos will love a reading from her latest book.

Pack up the entire family and plan to spend a day with us!

08/24/2024

Ladies and gentlemen…….we are swooning. We have the incredibly beautiful and talented joining us on not one but two stages. She will be in conversation with and she will be part of a discuss celebrating the life and legacy of James Baldwin.

Now listen. We are not telling you how to spend your time on Sept 7th. But if you aren’t in attendance for this year’s you are missing out on excellence like this. Clear your calendars and come thru!

08/23/2024

Yall!!! We have a legend gracing the stage on Sept 7th at the ! The incomparable bestselling author will be in the building. She has written over seventy novels, twenty short stories and edited multiple anthologies. She is the reason many of our favorite authors exist. She paved the way and opened the door for contemporary Black authors. She has given us all the feels over the last 35+ years as we have cried and fallen in love engrossed in the fictional worlds she created.

We are honored that she is joining us to discuss her work and to give incite into the journey of adapting books into films. But more importantly we are given another opportunity to simply tell her THANK YOU!

08/22/2024

Let’s keep it coming with this banger line-up! Yall we have bringing the heat to the on Sept 7th. He will be taking the stage to discuss his book ON THE MOVE.

Nearly four decades after the MOVE bombing, survivor Mike Africa Jr.’s new book, gives a first-person account of life after the tragedy, the history of the MOVE Organization and Africa Jr.’s fight to free his parents from prison.

Who’s ready to dive into this discussion?

08/21/2024

08/20/2024

Bookies! We are so excited to announce that during this year’s we will be celebrating Caribbean culture!

Join us September 7th at from 10pm to 4pm as we show love and have discussions with authors like Dr .

08/19/2024

Happy Monday Bookies!!!! Let’s celebrate and his 2023 book I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. This dynamic memoir will be discussed September 7th at this year’s .

As seen on Humans of New York, Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the teachers, his debate coach, a homeless man, and a boy named Diego who changed his life. Booklist calls it “a moving story about finding your supporters and building your future.”

Born into a family crippled by addiction and homelessness, Jonathan “failed” kindergarten and was told he would never succeed academically. But instead, Jonathan found ways to defy the limited expectations placed upon him by building a village to save his own life, and realize his dream to get into medical school.

Throughout this heartwarming memoir, we meet the unique and diverse cast of characters who made up Jonathan’s village and helped him change the trajectory of his life.

08/18/2024

We asked our programming team for this year’s ( and ) their favorite book(s).

First up, ….

“I am a mood reader so it is always hard to pinpoint just one. My answer can change from moment to moment depending on my mood or how I am answering the question. I have favorites by genre, favorites of a particular year, favorites of a trope, favorites of a certain mood and favorites of the moment. It’s easier for me to say my favorite of 2023. I read 190 books last year but there is one book that stuck with me and I continue to circle back to moments in that book that were so beautifully written: THE THING ABOUT HOME by . It is the only book that I have recommended and EVERY SINGLE PERSON that has told me they read said that it was a five star read for them. Reading is so subjective so to get that sort of unanimous response tells me that my experience with this book is not unique. It is multi-genre so as a mood reader it satisfied so many different emotions that I tend to have reading. It was all of my favorites rolled into one effortlessly - romance, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, women’s fiction. Even the format of a dual timeline is one of my favorite ways to experience historical fiction. Rhonda McKnight is forever going to be one of my favorite authors. I didn’t read this book. I experienced it.”

Welp! This sounds like a book that we all need to experience. Check out THE THING ABOUT HOME by Rhonda McKnight.