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  • John Ernest Early African American community activism Book cover of The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century Book cover of The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States Book cover of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 Book cover of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Book cover of The Underground Rail Road
  • Hollis Robbins Black poetry Book cover of Selected Poems Book cover of Native Guard Book cover of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song: A Library of America Anthology Book cover of Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry Book cover of Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
  • Jonathan Shandell Black culture and history in the Civil Rights era Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Book cover of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy Book cover of Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance
  • Daniel Olivas Books by BIPOC writers that will scare the living daylights out of you Book cover of Unwieldy Creatures Book cover of The Devil Takes You Home Book cover of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Book cover of The Queen of the Cicadas Book cover of Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
  • Winter Miller Memoirs by very sexy writers Book cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Book cover of I Know I Am, But What Are You? Book cover of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Book cover of Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir Book cover of Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
  • Shannon Gibney YA and MG about the Black experience Book cover of The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Book cover of The Hate U Give Book cover of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Book cover of Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler Book cover of Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
  • Patience Bloom Finding true love with the least likely person Book cover of Red, White & Royal Blue Book cover of The Idea of You Book cover of Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Book cover of The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Woman's Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth Book cover of Wish You Were Here
  • Jane Clarke Making you fall in love with nature poetry Book cover of Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry Book cover of Earth Shattering: Ecopoems Book cover of Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology Book cover of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Book cover of Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse
  • Rachana Vajjhala Dazzlingly written books from the past five years with both style and substance Book cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation Book cover of Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir Book cover of Cloud Cuckoo Land Book cover of The Plot
  • Jan Richardson Grief when you don’t want to read about grief Book cover of H is for Hawk Book cover of Moon Crossing Bridge Book cover of Nox Book cover of Book of Hours: Poems Book cover of Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
  • Jonathan Rose The history of books Book cover of The Diary of a Russian Censor: Aleksandr Nikitenko Book cover of What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring Book cover of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Book cover of The Making of Middlebrow Culture Book cover of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
  • Douglas Cole Your journey as a drifter Book cover of Situationist International Anthology Book cover of The Country between Us Book cover of The Flowers of Evil Book cover of Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems Book cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  • Ran Walker Microfiction for those with limited time to read Book cover of Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories Book cover of Without a Net Book cover of Briefs Book cover of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Book cover of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
  • Kimberly Garrett Brown Celebrate the global resoluteness of Black women Book cover of The Darkest Child Book cover of The Girl with the Louding Voice Book cover of Seven Days in June Book cover of The Yellow Wife Book cover of In Every Mirror She's Black
  • Paul Hoover Contemporary long poems Book cover of Model City Book cover of Alphabet Book cover of Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems Book cover of Atlantica and the Rustic Book cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  • Ali Rosen Romances with complicated heroines Book cover of You, Again Book cover of Delilah Green Doesn't Care Book cover of Georgie, All Along Book cover of Seven Days in June Book cover of An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
  • Darien Gee Women of color finding their stories Book cover of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism Book cover of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Book cover of Girls Write Now Unmuted: The 2021 Anthology Book cover of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Book cover of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
  • Hannah Howard Celebrating food Book cover of Crying in H Mart Book cover of Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Book cover of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Book cover of Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir
  • Noreen Nanja Dual-timeline romances Book cover of People We Meet on Vacation Book cover of Love and Other Words Book cover of Seven Days in June Book cover of Slow Dance Book cover of Every Summer After
  • David John Rosenheim Poetry to awaken your senses in the natural world Book cover of Ledger: Poems Book cover of Be With Book cover of Mercy Book cover of All of Us: The Collected Poems Book cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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