Alanna and Triciah of Loc'd & Lit smiling by a sunlit window, each holding an open book — Alanna in brown holding "Black-Owned," Triciah in a red-and-white top holding an illustrated novel.

Two girls, one love of books.

Blackety Black. Bronx Born. Caribbean Raised.

We fell in love with books that finally looked like us: stories with our neighborhoods, our music, and our people on the page. That love is what built Book'd by Loc'd & Lit, rooted in Antigua and Nevis, raised on hip-hop and R&B, and loc'd since day one. Every title on our shelves is one we've read ourselves and can't stop recommending, so we made it easy to shop them below.

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Bronx Born

Lifelong Bronx girls building the borough its own literary home, one pop-up and giveaway at a time.

Caribbean Raised

Antigua and Nevis run through everything we do: the warmth, the culture, the flavor in how we build community.

'80s Babies, '90s Raised

Hip-hop, R&B, and the nostalgia of growing up when mixtapes and Sunday dinners meant everything.

Loc'd Since Day One

Two friends on our loc journey together: it's in our name, and it's who we are.

Come for the Books Stay for the VIBE

FEATURED BOOKS

Mazywood by Tananarive Due

$32.00

Birth of a Culture by Grandmaster Flash and Robert "Scoop" Jackson

$29.99

Survivor by Octavia E. Butler

$19.99

The September Drop: B(L)ACK LIKE WE NEVER LEFT!

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Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices by Ehime Ora

Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices by Ehime Ora

$17.99

Black-Owned by Char Adams

Black-Owned by Char Adams

$32.00

Chronicles of Ori by Harmonia Rosales

Chronicles of Ori by Harmonia Rosales

$37.99

I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

$30.00

The Water Bearers by Sasha Bonét

The Water Bearers by Sasha Bonét

$30.00

A fanned stack of book covers including "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" by Kellie Carter Jackson, "My Block Looks Like" by Janelle Harper, and "If You Knew Suzy" by Katherine Rosman.

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