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New Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month with a fresh selection of compelling reads! This list highlights recently released fiction and nonfiction by Black authors, exploring history, identity, resilience, and joy. These must-reads are perfect for deepening your understanding and appreciation of Black voices and experiences.

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  • From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.
    eBook, 2025Sourcebooks Inc, 2025
  • The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance, for fans of The Great…
    Book, 2025New York : Hanover Square Press, 2025.
  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025]
  • Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel revealing the historical Herod the Great—not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
  • In Open Contempt

    Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

    Weathersby, Irvin, Jr.,
    A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voice.
    Book, 2025[New York] : Viking, [2025]
  • For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.
    eBook, 2025St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025
  • The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.
    eBook, 2025Random House Publishing Group, 2025
  • Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy,…
    Book, 2025New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
  • A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and ferociously funny—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024]
  • Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family’s generational wrongs can be righted.
    Book, 2024New York ; Boston : Mariner Books, [2024]
  • A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
  • From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer--and the ghosts of her past.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial”…
    Book, 2024New York : Simon and Schuster, 2024.
  • A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2024]
  • The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister.
    eBook, 2024Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2024
  • Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and…
    Book, 2024New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024.
  • Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one…
    Book, 2024New York : Forever, 2024.
  • Explosive and enthralling romantasy debut from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Howzell Hall... Thrown into a desolate land of sickness and unnatural beasts, Kai wakes in the woods with no idea who she is or how she got there. All she knows…
    Book, 2024Shrewsbury, PA : Red Tower Books, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, 2024.
  • A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.
    Book, 2024New York : Ace, [2024]
  • Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled,…
    Book, 2024New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.