This list is not exhaustive by any means, but here are the books on my radar!
Congratulations to every BIPOC Adult Lit author celebrating their book’s birthday this week!
Check out the February 2nd releases below.
THIS CLOSE TO OKAY
by Leesa Cross-Smith
FOUR HUNDRED SOULS
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
THE REMOVED
by Brandon Hobson
BLOOD GROVE
by Walter Mosley
THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT
by Syed M. Masood
THE KINDEST LIE
by Nancy Johnson
LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY
by Randa Jarrar
HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE
by Cherie Jones
HALFWAY HOME
Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
by Reuben Jonathan Miller
100 BOYFRIENDS
by Brontez Purnell
DO BETTER
Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
by Rachel Ricketts
MAKE UP BREAK UP
by Lily Menon
LAND OF BIG NUMBERS
by Te-Ping Chen
MY YEAR ABROAD
by Chang-rae Lee
FLOATING IN A MOST PECULIAR WAY
by Louis Chude-Sokei
MILK BLOOD HEAT
by Dantiel W. Moniz
THE THREE MOTHERS
How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
SURVIVING THE WHITE GAZE
by Rebecca Carroll
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