Happy Black History Month!
In honor of Black History Month here is a variety of eBooks and audiobooks from Black authors.
Kobo Recommendations:
Pre-Orders:
- We Are Villains by Kacen Callender (March 2025)
- Kacen Callender has become a prolific author in a handful of years, and you love to see it, especially since he writes in different genres for different ages. He has middle grade in Hurricane Child, YA with Felix Ever After, adult romance in Stars in Your Eyes, and two different fantasy series. I’m very excited to say 2025 will publish his first dark academia adult mystery, so run to We Are Villains and walk the halls of Yates Academy with Milo as he tries to uncover what really happened the night Ari died…
- If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal (April 2025)
- This is Zakiya N. Jamal’s YA novel debut, and I was sold at sapphic enemies to lovers but what tipped it into prebuy territory for me was the added movie theater setting and underlining mystery plot! Also, the lighting on this cover is better than 90% of prestige TV.
- Just Our Luck by Denise Williams (March 2025)
- Denise Williams has put out a bunch of great adult romance novels since 2020, including The Fastest Way to Fall, How to Fail at Flirting, and a series of airport novellas that starts with The Love Connection. Her 2025 release has a gorgeous cover plus fake dating, a donut shop owner, and a winning lottery ticket. So, all the wins!
- Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours (February 2025)
- Channelle Desamours’s debut novel mixes genres the way I like — speculative YA mystery — with an exploration of a theme I’m always here for: is power a gift or curse? That’s what Sariyah Lee Bryant is wondering as a person who can hear what people need and a growing list of friends who are now missing person cases…
- All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis (April 2025)
- DeAndra Davis’s debut sounds like it’s going to be a feel-all-the-emotions contemporary YA novel, tackling ableism, social justice, and race. Aiden is the newest member on the football team, and not all his teammates want him there because of ableist beliefs that his autism will negatively impact their games. His star quarterback brother ends up arrested while defending Aiden, creating even more problems in Aiden’s life and leaving him desperate to prove the charges are trumped up.
So many good books to add to my TBR! What books are you most excited to dive into?
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