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Marcus Books

As the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore celebrating its 60th year, Marcus Books’ mission is to provide opportunities for Black folks and their allies to celebrate and learn about Black people everywhere. It is a space that affirms and reflects back every beautiful shade of black. At Marcus Books we understand literature as essential to building cultural competency and intellectual awareness. We cherish Black makers of literature and art. Marcus Books stocks an essential catalogue of works including children's and young adult fiction and nonfiction, classics, bestsellers, cookbooks, ancient and contemporary history, poetry, biography and graphic novels.
 

All Bookshop orders ship directly to you. If you are interested in arranging in-person pickup please call us at (510) 652-2344 or visit us in Oakland, CA at 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Native Son
Out of Darkness
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers')
How to Be an Antiracist
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
The Black Power Movement and Civil Unrest
Black Lives Matter: From Hashtag to the Streets
A is for Activist
Chocolate Me!
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Between the World and Me
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race (Revised)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Let's Talk about Race
Antiracist Baby Board Book
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
All Are Welcome (an All Are Welcome Book)
In the Country: Stories
Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South Volume 38
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Corazón
Tesoro
Hermosa
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Revised, Updated)
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire
Flowers on the Moon
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol (Revised)
Assata: An Autobiography
Becoming
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Heavy: An American Memoir
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (Updated)
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas
Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices
No One Is Illegal (Updated Edition): Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Mexican Gothic
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine (Original)
With the Fire on High
Halsey Street
Krik? Krak!
Color Me in
Daughters of the Stone
Love War Stories
Dominicana
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Sulwe
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella (Reprint)
Be Bold! Be Brave!: 11 Latinas who made U.S. History (English and Spanish Edition)
Kitchen Dance
Furia
Mama's Girl
Show and Prove
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words (Reprint)
The New David Espinoza
Where We Go from Here
Never Look Back
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Thick: And Other Essays
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Sula
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Assata: An Autobiography
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
The Street
Homegoing
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Invisible Man
A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel
Queenie
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Americanah
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
A Black Women's History of the United States
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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