2023 BIPOC Book Releases to Add to Your Reading List
Ordering new books written by BIPOC authors tells the publishing industry that books written and illustrated by POC matter and the readership for them isn’t a trend.
Looking for BIPOC authors to order and add to your bookshelves written in 2023? Here are books written by Black, Indigenous, and POC authors and illustrators so you can support BIPOC authors!
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. ‘Āina hānau—or the land of one’s birth—signifies identity through...
- by Jay Shetty
- Love and Romance, Marriage, Nonfiction, Self-Help
- Publication Year: 2023
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
A must-read that belongs in every home and classroom, A Day With No Words invites readers into the life of an Autism Family who communicates just as the child does,...
- by Natalie Caña
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
Santiago “Saint” Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola León, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she’ll never forgive, will everything he’s built...
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and...
- Family Life, Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
From Olympic ice dancing medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani, this beautifully illustrated picture book highlights the achievements of many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have made invaluable contributions to...
- by K.X. Song
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Two star-crossed teenagers fall in love during the Hong Kong protests in this searing contemporary novel about coming-of-age in a time of change. In An Echo in the City by...
- Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2023
An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history. Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a...
- American Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fiction, Folklore Fiction, Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of...
- by Mia Tsai
- Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2023
In this inspired contemporary fantasy, a Chinese immortal and a French elf try to balance new romance, familial loyalty, and workplace demands. In her debut novel, Taiwanese American author Mia...
- Ethnic Studies, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“Like no book I have ever read.” ―Ari Shapiro, NPR’s All Things Considered Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying...
- Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them...
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family’s expectations as she grapples with a complicated...
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter....
- Black Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge...
- Nonfiction, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2023
From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles—and living your life, your way. Every family has a story. For...
- Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
It’s the end of the world as they know it—or so they think… When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be...
- Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a...
- by Curtis Chin
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The...
- by Sher Lee
- LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to...
- by Ali Abdaal
- Nonfiction, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2023
The secret to productivity isn’t discipline. It’s joy. We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But...
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom,...
- Epic Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklore Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2023
A brilliant new voice brings us a brilliant new epic fantasy novel: Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythology—full of magic and emotion and...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels’ life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing the accident that kills her...
- by Thao Lam
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2023
How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday! A child runs through...
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From Talia Hibbert, the bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the...
- by Geena Rocero
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Set in Hilo, Hawai’i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women—a tale of mothers and daughters, dance...
- Adoption, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own...
- by Sheena Patel
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement...
- by Lisa See
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a...
- by C. Pam Zhang
- Asian American Fiction, Dystopian, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and,...
- 8-12 Years, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2023
Curses aren’t real. At least, that’s what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother’s folktales about sacred flowers and family guardians. Anna’s friends back home...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she...
- Biographies, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs. Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father...
- by Tania James
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
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...
- Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
Always a matchmaker, never a match… Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Celebrate the Lunar New Year and learn about all of its traditions with this Big Golden Book! Every year, millions of Asian families come together to celebrate the first new...
- by Elisa Stad
- 4-6 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Jade is a girl who lives in two worlds and, coming from a multicultural family, she’s on a quest to understand her identity and where she truly belongs. She is...
- by Nghi Vo
- Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2023
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric...
- by Ilyon Woo
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting...
- by Berna Anat
- Nonfiction, Personal Finance
- Publication Year: 2023
So no one taught you about money, either? Let’s figure this me$$ out together. In this illustrated, deeply unserious guide to money, Berna Anat—aka the Financial Hype Woman—freaks out her...
- by Marlon James
- Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy.
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When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila...
- by Jen Soriano
- Biology, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together...
- by Vivian Tu
- Nonfiction, Personal Finance
- Publication Year: 2023
When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was making more money than she had ever seen in her life. But...
- by Gina Chung
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“Immersively beautiful…. A kaleidoscope of originality.” —Weike Wang, acclaimed author of Joan is Okay Ro is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend...
- by Hua Hsu
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken,...
- Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In Teaching the Invisible Race, anti-bias and anti-racist educator and researcher Tony DelaRosa (he, siya) delivers an insightful and hands-on treatment of how to embody a pro-Asian American lens in...
- by Tasha Jun
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling...
- Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation―fourteen years ago at summer camp―ended their friendship. Until...
- by Sheelue Yang
- Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
In this Hmong folktale, two brothers venture into a remote jungle, hunting food for their hungry family. But the jungle is full of dangerous wild animals. The older brother vows...
- by Samit Basu
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at...
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Teen LGBTQ+ Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teenage girl competing in a televised baking competition, with contestants including her ex-girlfriend and...
- 8-12 Years, Children's, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2023
Getting three baby dragons back home was just the beginning. Now Jaxon is on a mission to help all magical creatures from Dragons in a Bag! But things in the...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to...
- by C.L. Clark
- Action & Adventure Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
In the second installment of C.L. Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca’s throne and to face the consequences...
- Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
He’s in love. She’s faking it. Footballing legend Nik Christou leads a charmed life. Rich, successful, and internationally adored, no woman (or man) has ever rejected him—until a tattooed goddess...
- Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars. In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck....
- Black Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss. I don’t...
- Black Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the...
- History, Nonfiction, Race and Ethnic Relations
- Publication Year: 2023
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all. Using history as a foundation, The...
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In...
- by E.J. Koh
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father’s blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law,...
- by Yomi Adegoke
- Family Life, Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral social media post. Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure...
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he’s the obscure author she’s been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance by...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
When their worlds collide the result is catastrophic. To Khadija, Leene embodies the tame, dutiful Syrian ideal she’s long rebelled against. And to Leene, Khadija is the strong-willed, closed-off American...
- Publication Year: 2023
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Solving problems is what eight-year-old Terysa loves to do. So, when both she and her sister Kelia both have big math competitions coming up, can Terysa find a solution that...
- by E.L. Shen
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of The Sisterhood...
- History, Native American History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is...
- Action & Adventure Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds....
- by Yung Pueblo
- Inspiration and Personal Growth, Nonfiction, Poetry, Self-Help
- Publication Year: 2023
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes...
- by Prachi Gupta
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain—and lose—by taking...
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation’s...
- by Vauhini Vara
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self...
- 8-12 Years
- Publication Year: 2023
Welcome to Neverland–where an unforgettable adventure is about to begin . . . Tiger Lily and her community, the Indigenous people of Neverland, possess a unique ability: they can choose...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Eight-year-old problem-solver Terysa is determined to win the school science fair. There is only one snag: she has so many good ideas, she doesn’t know which one to choose. Terysa...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Spirited Away meets Where the Wild Things Are by way of yokai mythology in this enchanting picture book by debut author J. P. Takahashi and illustrator Minako Tomigahara. The night...
- by Brandon Som
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2023
With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who...
- by Isabel Cañas
- Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Horror Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense, Vampire
- Publication Year: 2023
Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico,...
- Biographies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he...
- by Mai Nardone
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
We came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We...
- by Sabina Khan
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The romance of Becky Albertalli meets the nuanced family dynamics of Darius the Great is Not Okay in this YA novel from acclaimed author Sabina Khan. Mehar hasn’t been back...
- by R.F. Kuang
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most...