Anthony Whyte: 14 books

The critically acclaimed Ghetto Girls series continues with Soo Hood. Lil’ Long sings like a canary and weasels his way out of lockdown. Dirty cops Hall and Kawolski push him around the way a snitch deserves. Lil’ Long uses it as motivation to exact revenge on the streets and rub off enemies at every...

Anthony Whyte’s Ghetto Girls series has garnered critical acclaim and legions of fans for its portrayals of adolescent street life. In the latest installment, Coco, an up-and-coming singer, finds her fortune taking a turn for the worst just as she’s on the brink of fame. Struggling with both her...

Streets Of New York Volume 1 takes readers into the turbulent lives of Promise, Squeeze, Show, and Pooh, four young men from the rough-and-tumble streets of Brook-nam. Big, brash, and bold, the four are modern-day gangstas who take the law into their own hands, helping to rid the ‘hood of derelicts...

The first installment in this exciting series followed Promise, Squeeze, and Show as they robbed, whored, and fought their way to adulthood on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Now, it’s a year later. Promise is trying to get out of the gangsta life, but the streets have a powerful call. Squeeze and Show...

The streets are pitch black, but a different shade of darkness has engulfed the north Bronx neighborhood known as Edenwald. Sleepless nights, suspicion, and violence are plaguing the hood, all a result of rampant use of cocaine, known as "hard white" among residents. Two Edenwald residents, Melquan and...

Lipstick Diaries offers what’s best about the most brilliant female authors in the business. Hip Hop Literature is here to stay and the range of these stories varies from hood to hood. Woman to woman, all the stories are drama-packed with real characters and life-styles. Narrated in different voices,...

The sexiest Hip Hop story ever dwells between the pages of Ghetto Girls. It is a fast moving joint with a raw and gritty edge. Dripping with brutal honesty Ghetto Girls takes it in ruggedstride to the streets. While hanging with friends, a beautiful girl is abducted by thugs. Her uncle, a top music producer,...

The best of the street chronicles today, Ghetto Girls Too is a wonderfully hypnotic adventure that delves into the convoluted minds of criminals and the dark world of police corruption. Yet, there is something thrilling and surprisingly tender about this ongoing young-adult saga filled with mad flava....

Hip-hop fiction fans eager for more can feast on the second volume of this well-loved series. Featuring short stories from Genieva Borne, Camo, Endy, Brooke Green, Kineisha Gayle (the queen of hip hop lit), Carolyn McGill, Vanessa Martir, Princess Madison, Keisha Seignious, and a blistering foreword...

A new case comes across the desk of detective Sheryl Street from the Dade County larceny squad in Miami. Pursuing the investigation, she discovers that it threatens to unfold dig up details of her life she thought were long buried in New York. As Hher duties as detective pit her against the family that...

In the fifth installment of the popular Ghetto Girls series, Coco suffers an injury that leaves her more helpless than she could have imagined. As she relies on her best friend Deedee for love and support, their relationship grows to another level. But Deedee finds out that her friend needs her even...

It’s August, 2003. All of the Northeast is sweltering, but no place is hotter than Brooklyn, especially the gritty neighborhood known as East Flatbush. Then, in the midst of the heat wave, the unthinkable happens: the power goes out. And stays out. And the longer it’s out, the edgier people get,...

In Thin Line, the police code of silence is tested when officer Rita Sanchez’s eight-year-old son, Shareef, witnesses the murder of his grandmother and other family members. The next day he is hauled off to the precinct and questioned inappropriately by the police after he’s involved in a riot at...

GHETTO GIRLS 6 is a compelling finale to the exciting Ghetto Girls Series. Two teen girls are drawn together and after sharing similar experiences, they become even closer. The mountain of tragedies that they have faced in their lives still threatens to push them over the cliff. Even when they feel they’ve...