Family Life Books by BIPOC Authors
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other. The Longe siblings are...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran,...
- by Christina Li
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Gothic Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This novel by Christina Li is about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese...
- Family Life, Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises,...
- Family Life
- Publication Year: 2025
Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this rich and emotional adventure. After ten years as a national park...
- by Jemimah Wei
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang...
- Family Life, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2025
A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. What do you really know about the people you’ve made...
- by Jaquira Díaz
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class...
- by Tochi Eze
- Family Life, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family. In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don’t...
- by Tash Aw
- Family Life, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from Charmaine Wilkerson. When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman...
- Black Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions....
- by John Vercher
- Family Life, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels...
- by Yoko Ogawa
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them....
- by Tomas Moniz
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a...
- by Morgan Talty
- Family Life, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one...
- by Jo Hamya
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his...
- by Iris Mwanza
- Family Life, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything… When young queer dancer Wilbess “Bessy” Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes...
- by Kaveh Akbar
- Family Life, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to...
- by Tita Ramírez
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A debut novel about a Cuban American family sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter. Travel from Miami to...