Category: Black Interest

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Black Interest Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Lesbian Studies Literary Criticism

Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color by Gloria Anzaldua

Gloria Anzaldua | Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color | A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multip

Posted in Black Interest Fiction Romance

The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

Makeda Silvera | The Heart Does Not Bend | Family loyalty, betrayal and the redemptive power of love are at the heart of this poignant and unforgettable novel set in Canada and Jamaica.

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Black Marks by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte

Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Black Marks | ‘In this wonderfully intelligent novel, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte explores a young woman’s complicated struggle to come to terms with her fractured past.

Posted in Black Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

Rebecca Barrow | This Is What It Feels Like | This tender story of friendship, music, and ferocious love asks: what will you fight for, if not yourself? You Don’t Know Me But I Know You author Reb

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol

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

Goldie Vance by Hope Larson; Jackie Ball; Elle Power; Sarah Stern

Hope Larson; Jackie Ball; Elle Power; Sarah Stern | Goldie Vance | The adventures of precocious teen sleuth Goldie Vance continue!

Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity and drea

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest Memoir

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

LaShonda Katrice Barnett | Jam on the Vine | Recall your first reading of a favorite book: pulse quickening with resonance, your fascination with this new, yet familiar, world fueled by desire to

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Erotic Islands by Lyndon Kamaal Gill

Lyndon Kamaal Gill | Erotic Islands | In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histo

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the