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• We Rip the World Apart

  A Novel

  Carr, Charlene

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  From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.

• Isaac's Song

  Black, Daniel,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  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.

• The Life of Herod the Great

  a Novel

  Hurston, Zora Neale,

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  Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel revealing the historical Herod the Great—not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure.

• In Open Contempt

  Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

  Weathersby, Irvin, Jr.,

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  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.

• Listen to Your Sister

  A Novel

  Viel, Neena

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  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.

• Good Dirt

  A Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine

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  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.

• Death of the Author

  a Novel

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and ferociously funny—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

• This Motherless Land

  a Novel

  May, Nikki,

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  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.

• Colored Television

  Senna, Danzy,

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  A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.

• One of Us Knows

  Cole, Alyssa,

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  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.

• Sky Full of Elephants

  Campbell, Cebo,

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  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”…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Come and Get It

  a Novel

  Reid, Kiley,

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  A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

• Immortal Dark

  Girma, Tigest

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  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.

• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Could Be Us

  Ryan, Kennedy,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last One

  a Novel

  Hall, Rachel Howzell,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Academy for Liars

  Henderson, Alexis,

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  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.

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation