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Books by Black Authors Recommendations
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items Happy Black Excellence Month! This is a list of books, some that were already on my TBR, some that I'm finding about for the first time after doing some research and will definitely be adding to my TBR. I'm hoping to do the same for you! Black author...
YA Fantasy with a strong FMC, Arthurian legend, Chosen One
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
A runaway princess, her magic-hating brother, and a girl with a powerful heritage team up to restore magic to their world.
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha Series #1)
Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical.
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
A young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.
This Cursed House by Del Sandeer
A fairy tale horror about a father who searches for his missing wife and child in a magical world. Also an Apple TV series
The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
Black mermaid fantasy series that #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon calls “epic and original,” in which one mermaid takes on the gods themselves.
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
A modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy it all.
House of Marionne by J. Elle
Jane hopes her life will turn around as she and her family house-sit in a luxurious home in the hills of Los Angeles. But when things go wrong, she turns to Hollywood and meets producer Hampton Ford. They start developing a biracial comedy, but thing...
Colored Television: A Novel by Danzy Senna
A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.
Nightcrawling: A Novel by Leila Mottley
Liz doesn’t have great memories of her hometown in Pennsylvania, but she reluctantly goes home to attend her best friend’s wedding. But when a young girl goes missing at the reception, Liz is the only one to recognize a pattern. Suddenly, she finds h...
Jackal: A Novel by Erin E. Adams
After escaping from a kidnapper in her teens, Louise Lloyd is just trying to live a normal life, spending time with her girlfriend and working hard at her job in a speakeasy. But when several girls in her neighborhood are found murdered, Louise’s pas...
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesha Afia
Andre Jackson is a typical teen that’s into hanging out with his friends and crushing on girls. But everything changes when he is wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn’t commit. After serving his time at juvie, he gets out to find his neighborhood...
Invisible Son by Kim Johnson
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren’t just high, they’re deadly, in this searing thriller that’s Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor.
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington
We follow the perspectives of Damaya, Syenite, and Essun — three women coming to terms with their connection to the Earth, their control of the plates, and how to best manipulate this energy for the protection of civilization and their own safety.
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Series #1) by N.K Jemisin (Hugo Award Winner)