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✨ TIME's Must-Read Books in 2025 by BIPOC Authors ✨

Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Zorg
Theft
The Wilderness
We Do Not Part
Death of the Author
Scorched Earth
Palaver
People Like Us
Primordial
The Edge of Water
Dead and Alive
Where Are You Really From
Flashlight
Black in Blues
Nothing More of This Land
An Oral History of Atlantis
The Emperor of Gladness
Audition
Katabasis
Mother Mary Comes to Me
The Book of Records
Good Dirt
Strangers in the Land
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home
The Dream Hotel
Moderation
All That We See or Seem
Mỹ Documents
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Lonely Crowds
O Sinners!
Cursed Daughters
The South
Great Black Hope
Pick a Color
Good Girl
A Guardian and a Thief
The Catch
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Bad Bad Girl
King of Ashes
Sweet Heat
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
Forest Euphoria
The Idea of an Entire Life
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2026 BIPOC Book Releases

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Historical Fiction Books

Trust
Cool Machine, Book 3
Fire Sword and Sea
The Nickel Boys
Theft
The Chosen and the Beautiful
White Mulberry
The Good Muslim, Book 2
Slaveroad
The Mountains Sing
This Kind of Trouble
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
A Golden Age, Book 1
We Are Green and Trembling
Loot
Casualties of Truth
The Lions’ Den
The Lion Women of Tehran
Happy Land
Island Queen
The Island of Sea Women
James
Silver and Smoke
The Good Lord Bird
The Underground Railroad
The Life of Herod the Great
Pachinko
Woman of Light
Harlem Rhapsody
Our Sister’s Keeper
The Great Mann
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2025 YA Releases by BIPOC Authors

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Fantasy Books

The Fifth Season, Book 1
Song of the Six Realms
The God and the Gumiho, Book 1
The Unbroken, Book 1
The Jasmine Throne, Book 1
Gold Diggers
Three Shattered Souls, Book 3
The Last One, Book 1
An Arcane Inheritance
He Who Drowned the World, Book 2
King Foretold, Book 2
A Monsoon Rising, Book 2
Son of the Morning
Jade Legacy, Book 3
The Isle in the Silver Sea
The Sunforge, Book 2
Mammoths at the Gates, Book 4
Sound the Gong, Book 2
The Last Bloodcarver, Book 1
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
If You Could See the Sun
The World We Make, Book 2
Nine Tailed, Book 1
A Mouthful of Dust, Book 6
Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Book 1
Bitter Medicine
The Oleander Sword, Book 2
The Dawnhounds, Book 1
The Killing Spell
The Bridges of High Hill, Book 5
Las Madres
The Hurricane Wars, Book 1
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Babel: An Arcane History
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
I Live to Serve the Witch
My Chicano Heart
Forged by Blood, Book 1
I, Medusa
Blackheart Man
To Ride a Rising Storm, Book 2
The Ones We’re Meant to Find
Now Comes the Mist
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The God and the Gwisin, Book 2
Silver and Smoke
Mongrels
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Memoirs

Forest Euphoria
Knife
Horse Barbie
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Things in Nature Merely Grow
The Magical Language of Others
Sucker Punch
If They Come for Us: Poems
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
A Man of Two Faces
Never Finished
Heart Berries: A Memoir
Heavy: An American Memoir
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
One Native Life
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
The Lucky Ones
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
107 Days
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
There’s Always This Year
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show
The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown
Why Not Me?
Local: A Memoir
Stay True: A Memoir
You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Connie
When Breath Becomes Air
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
American Negra
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
Speak, Okinawa
It Won’t Always Be Like This
Butterfly
Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth
See No Strangers: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
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Fiction Books

Klara and the Sun
The Last Bloodcarver, Book 1
Hades, Argentina
Gold Diggers
Sleeping with the Frenemy, Book 3
I Love You Don’t Die
King Foretold, Book 2
The Genesis of Misery
The Refugees
Song of the Six Realms
Lunar Love
Imago, Book 3
Rakesfall
For the Best
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
My Brilliant Life
Mỹ Documents
Love in the Big City
The Ghost Bride
The Roommate Risk
Lonely Crowds
Fire Exit
The Unbroken, Book 1
Cursed Daughters
An American Marriage
Woman of Light
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, Book 1
Future Home of the Living God
The Original Daughter
The Mighty Red
On Rotation
Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat
Loot
Light Burned, Book 3
Babylon, South Dakota
The Obake Code
The Dream Hotel
The Book of Night Women
Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf
Where There Was Fire
The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Angel of Indian Lake, Book 3
Things We Lost to the Water
Trust
The Matchmaker
Red String Theory
Audition
Five-Carat Soul
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Children's Picture Books

Little Rebels
For A Girl Becoming
We Are Water Protectors
The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story
Somewhere, There Is Someone
The Brothers: A Hmong Graphic Folktale
I Am Golden
Abuela (English Edition with Spanish Phrases)
Islandborn
Freedom Braids
Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day: Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year
My Night in the Planetarium
Remember
A Century for Caroline
Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse
Jordan’s Perfect Haircut
Chooch Helped
Yaya and the Sea
Counting on Community
Big
Faye and the Dangerous Journey: An Ojibwe Removal Survival Story
From the Tops of the Trees
I Am, Yo Soy
The Wedding Portrait
If You Miss Me
The Serpent’s Secret
Mother Tree, Daughter Seed: Lessons in Slow Growth
Bilal Cooks Daal
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home
Mama’s Love Language: Sometimes Love Tastes Like Hainan Chicken Rice
Emeka, Eat Egusi!
Watercress
Berry Song
Amazing: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Inspire Us All
Curry Means More
Dreaming of a Quinceañera
The Problem Solving Machine
Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans
Eid for Nylah
Our Moon Festival
Happy Birthday to Me
Oh, the Things We’re For!
Think Like a Computer
A Day With No Words
To The Moon
The Undefeated
Lunar New Year: A Celebration of Family and Fun
A is for Activist
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2024 YA Releases by BIPOC Authors

The Boyfriend Wish
The Last Bloodcarver, Book 1
Lunar New Year Love Story
Tender Beasts
All This Twisted Glory, Book 3
Liar’s Test
The Poisons We Drink
The Girl I Am, Was, And Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
A Crane Among Wolves
The Maid and the Crocodile
Dragonfruit
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Maybe It’s A Sign
Libertad
The Fox Maidens
Sound the Gong, Book 2
My Big, Fat Desi Wedding
We’re Never Getting Home
A Bánh Mì for Two
Shut Up, This is Serious
Song of the Six Realms
Wrath of the Talon, Book 2
Stay With My Heart
Legend of the White Snake
This Book Won’t Burn
Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
So Let Them Burn
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