Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim helped lay the foundation for this incredibly popular and edgy genre. Some are hard to track down in print anymore, but the Book of Boonce has picked up the baton.

Urban novels have a special place in many of our hearts. Some of us have been reading them since we were a teen. Today there is an author within the genre who has penned a unique story filled with plot twists and turns that will have you losing sleep trying to finish. Oakdale Boonce has given us an urban literature novel that we can place among the classics, it speaks our language and matches our swag. The Book of Boonce is hip-hop, it is edgy, it is raw, and it is real. We appreciated these stories because they reflected us in a way that other genres can’t.

Published two years ago, Book of Boonce continues to make its way across the country heading into 2027. Blending raw street realism with gripping drama, betrayal, and survival. Whether you call it urban lit, street lit, or an urban book, the Book of Boonce will end up being one of the most powerful urban storytelling in contemporary literature.