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Historical Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Step into the past with historical fiction these richly imagined stories that bring hidden histories and voices to the forefront, written by BIPOC authors.

Fire Sword and Sea

Fire Sword and Sea

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! From Vanessa Riley, acclaimed author of Queen of Exiles, comes a sweeping, immersive saga based on the life of the...

Cool Machine, Book 3

Cool Machine, Book 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of Harlem Trilogy. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin...

Our Sister’s Keeper

Our Sister’s Keeper

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It’s a wealthy all-Black Free Town―untouched by white oppression―where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband...

The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran

A mesmerizing tale of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, set against three transformative decades...

We Are Green and Trembling

We Are Green and Trembling

Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America. Deep in the wilds...

The Great Mann

The Great Mann

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....

Theft

Theft

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young...

This Kind of Trouble

This Kind of Trouble

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...

Harlem Rhapsody

Harlem Rhapsody

The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray. In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to...

Happy Land

Happy Land

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Nikki hasn’t seen her grandmother in years. So...

Silver and Smoke

Silver and Smoke

It’s the golden age of Hollywood. For two Vietnamese dreamers, success means conjuring a magical break in a spellbinding novel about the frightening price of fame by Van Hoang. More...

The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great—not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and...

Casualties of Truth

Casualties of Truth

A riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge, set between Washington, D.C., and Johannesburg, South Africa. Prudence...

White Mulberry

White Mulberry

Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and...

James

James

James is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that...

Slaveroad

Slaveroad

Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality...

The Lions’ Den

The Lions’ Den

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...

Loot

Loot

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that...

Woman of Light

Woman of Light

A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of...

Trust

Trust

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the...

Island Queen

Island Queen

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest...

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The 2020 NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this National Book Award-longlisted, magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing,...

The Chosen and the Beautiful

The Chosen and the Beautiful

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most...

The Mountains Sing

The Mountains Sing

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells...

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