40 Books by BIPOC Authors

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18 participants (130 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Obviously preferably #OwnVoices, but 40 books written by authors that aren't white. Black / Blak, Indigenous, First Nations, and people of colour

Challenge Books

All books added
A Song for Quiet by Cassandra Khaw

A Song for Quiet

Persons Non Grata #2

Cassandra Khaw

112 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tales from the Café

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #2

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

192 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

13 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

Oathbound

The Legendborn Cycle #3

Tracy Deonn

650 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Cemetery Boys

Cemetery Boys #1

Aiden Thomas

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

Honey & Spice

Bolu Babalola

12 hours • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

478 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Let Me Be Yours by Lily X.

Let Me Be Yours

Seventh Star #1

Lily X.

419 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
Merciless Saviours by H.E. Edgmon

Merciless Saviours

The Ouroboros #2

H.E. Edgmon

340 pages • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced