#BlackoutBestsellerList Recommendations
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Credit to Amistad Books for the image at the top of this post.
I realize that Twitter can sometimes be a social media site that attracts a certain kind of person. Not everyone is into the simultaneous trash fire/best place on Earth Twitter is, and so, many of you might not have yet seen or heard about the movement to Blackout the Bestseller Lists this week. The movement was started by Amistad Books, with the aim of highlighting Black authors on this week’s bookseller lists. It’s already Thursday, but don’t worry, you have plenty of time to buy books still, and I’ve made it super easy by putting together some of my favorites, along with some I have on my own TBR.
Non-Fiction
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
How to be an Anti-Racist and Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Fiction
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (YA)
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (YA)
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (YA)
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (Women’s Fiction)
Imperfectly Happy by Sharina Harris (Romance)
Let’s Talk About Love by Claira Kann (YA)
Get a Life Chloe Brown and Take a Hint Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (Romance)
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon (Romance)
The Fifth Season by NK Jemison (Fantasy)
The Hate U Give and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (YA)
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (or literally anything by Alyssa Cole) (Romance)
Intercepted by Alexa Martin (Romance)
Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson (Romance)
Pride by Ibi Zoboi (YA)
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (YA)
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (YA)
I did the work for you! Dive in! Buy books! And then actually read them!
