the melanin library - Best Books Recommendations | Hypelist
the melanin library
Kurbie - Updated 01/23/26
books by black authors
lgbt
Outdrawn
Deanna Grey • 2023
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academic rivals to lovers
This Ravenous Fate
Hayley Dennings • 2024
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a little sapphic x vampire mix
young adult
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
Joya Goffney • 2021
Ace of Spades
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé • 2021
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Talia Hibbert • 2023
Love Radio
Ebony LaDelle • 2022
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Shows the important connections between human emotions and how music effects them while showing how we as humans can express those feelings towards others with music. Also the plot is just so cute I love their dynamic so bad.
Charming as a Verb
Ben Philippe • 2020
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
Joya Goffney • 2022
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Honestly it shows how sometimes a home can be stifling for a child who feels like they''re not deemed as perfect. The plot takes us through her relationships, her beliefs and just her life as a teenage girl.
Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon • 2021
Love in Winter Wonderland
Abiola Bello • 2023
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christmas time romance
fantasy
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn • 2020
Bloodmarked
Tracy Deonn • 2022
So Let Them Burn
Kamilah Cole • 2024
Blood Debts
Terry J. Benton-Walker • 2023
The Blood Trials
N. E. Davenport • 2022
The Witchery
S. Isabelle • 2022
How To Succeed in Witchcraft
Aislinn Brophy • 2022
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler • 2022
romance
Sweethand
N. G. Peltier • 2021
What a Match
Mimi Grace • 2022
The Neighbor Favor
Kristina Forest • 2023
The Davenports
Krystal Marquis • 2024
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period drama
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams • 2021
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Kimberly Lemming • 2023
Cosmic Kiss: An Alien Burlesque Romance (Galactic Gems Series)
Clio Evans • 2023
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a why choose romance
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human
Kimberly Lemming • 2023
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
Kimberly Lemming • 2023
Sight Unseen
Kasha Thompson • 2023
The Partner Plot
Kristina Forest • 2024
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend
Jessica Cage • 2024
The Brown Sisters Series Collection 3 Books Set By Talia Hibbert (Get A Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Act Your Age Eve Brown)
Talia Hibbert • 2024
A Love Hate Thing
Whitney D. Grandison • 2020
Reel: A Hollywood Renaissance Novel
Kennedy Ryan • 2021
Take a Hike (Lovestruck)
Mimi Grace • 2023
horror
There''s No Way I''d Die First
Lisa Springer • 2024
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Jamison Shea • 2023
You''re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Kalynn Bayron • 2023
The Black Girl Survives in This One
Desiree S. Evans • 2024
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due • 2023
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a black boy is sent to a reformatory in the 1950s that is usually know for being a place where black kids don''t come out + being haunted
Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele • 2023
The Weight of Blood
Tiffany D. Jackson • 2022
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A white passing black girl is subjected to bullying when the town finds out she''s half black
Rootwork
Tracy Cross • 2022
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3 sisters in the 1800s are sent to live with their hoodoo practicing aunt
mystery
Monday''s Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson • 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite • 2018
contemporary
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo • 2018
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storytelling through poems
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams • 2022
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'A sexy, modern love story to start the summer off right and a smart, sexy testament to Black joy ... Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...
The Middle Daughter
Chika Unigwe • 2023
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a modern reimagining of the myth of Hades and Persephone within a Nigerian family
Before I Let Go
Kennedy Ryan • 2022
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Award-winning and bestselling "powerhouse" author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in this compelling, scorching novel about hope and healing, and what it truly means to love for a lifetime (USA Today).
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
Akwaeke Emezi • 2022
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the loss of a partner leads to a second chance at love with another
graphic novel
Wash Day Diaries
Jamila Rowser • 2022
thriller
Their Vicious Games
Joelle Wellington • 2023
nonfiction
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein • 2018
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers • 2019
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis • 2016
Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall • 2020
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
