Category: Black Interest

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Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men

Posted in Black Interest Mystery

The Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker

Nikki Baker | The Lavender House Murder | From Publishers Weekly

On vacation in Provincetown, Mass., Virginia Kelly, a lesbian African American and the narrator of this often titillating w

Posted in Black Interest Non-Fiction Poetry

Spill by Gumbs Alexis Pauline

Gumbs Alexis Pauline | Spill | In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes d

Posted in Black Interest Graphic Novel Mystery YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Goldie Vance by Hope Larson; Brittney L. Williams; Noah Hayes; Kat Leyh

Hope Larson; Brittney L. Williams; Noah Hayes; Kat Leyh | Goldie Vance | We’re back for another arc with master teen detective Goldie Vance! This time it’s a real ‘fast-paced’ mystery, as Goldie’s investigations take her to

Posted in Black Interest Non-Fiction

How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | How We Get Free | If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.’ –Combahee River Collective Statement

Winner of the 2018 Lambda

Posted in Black Interest Romance Speculative Fiction YA Fiction (Young Adult)

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

K. Ancrum | The Weight of the Stars | Ryann dreams of traveling across the stars, but a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. Al

Posted in Black Interest Poetry

Haiti Glass by Lenelle Moise

Moi?se, Lenelle, | Haiti Glass | ‘This is prose and verse that moves deftly between girlhood memories of growing up as a Haitian immigrant in the suburbs of Boston, to bearing witness

Posted in Black Interest Poetry

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne

Posted in Black Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Little & Lion (Little And Lion) by Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert | Little & Lion (Little And Lion) | ‘Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with th

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor

“[A] shrewd and lyrical