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My recent book recs I can’t stop talking about
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items My most recent reads by underrepresented authors that I won’t shut up about. Books in the romance, fiction, and nonfiction genres that everyone needs to add to their TBR immediately! 📚
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Romance
Nonfiction
Fiction
Romance
My top romance books that I will never shut up about
Beautifully written coming back to love story that taps strongly into emotion. Also a continuation of the couple’s story from Honey & Spice also by Bolu Babalola.
Sweet Heat: A Novel by Bolu Babalola
College “frienemies” to lovers story with strong ties to R&B music. Also beautifully written
Honey and Spice: A Novel by Bolu Babalola
A love triangle if you want to call it that with one who’s nonchalant, one is who’s very much not, and one who has an abundance of love to give
Between Friends & Lovers: A Novel
This book is truly what got me into romance reading. It’s a beautifully written story about how life can tear a couple a part even when they still love each other, but new opportunities can still be made. It’s the 1st in her series (they’re all good,...
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
Nonfiction
A helpful novel to understand the harm done to Black bodies due to grind culture and capitalism and how to reclaim your mental health from it.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
A classic that divides into the definition of love — romantic, platonic, familial, self love, etc.
All About Love: New Visions
A great book that connects the natural world with our own internal (emotional & mental) world to help make sense of it and how it’s all intentionally created by God
The Garden Within
Fiction
A historical fiction novel that jumps between timelines hitting on themes of history, drama, romance, family, self exploration/discovery.
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
A very intriguing novel that touches on friendship, relationships, romance, identity, and really life/love overall as it follows the story of two gamers
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A read that pulls you in immediately as it follows the story of 3 teenagers and how their lives are intertwined into their adulthood. It’s heart-wrenching, endearing, and slightly comedic
The Mothers
This book was my introduction into historical fiction and it couldn’t have been better! A friend of mine recommended it, and I instantly fell in love with the character and storytelling. It might actually be time for me to reread this book!
The House of Eve
Beautiful storytelling of adult women friendships and how to create and navigate them through life’s curveballs.
Love by the Book