2024 BIPOC Book Releases to Add to Your Reading List
Preordering books helps BIPOC authors place on bestseller lists like the NYT bestseller list. It 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 in 2024? Here are books written by Black, Indigenous, and POC authors and illustrators so you can preorder and support BIPOC authors!
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- by Fady Joudah
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians. Fady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with,...
- Black Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Romance, Romance
- Publication Year: 2024
Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster...
- by Thea Guanzon
- Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
Two hearts circle each other in the eye of the storm in this highly-anticipated follow-up to The Hurricane Wars—prepare for more enemies-to-lovers romance, magical adventures, and political schemes in this...
- by E.P. Tuazon
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and...
- Hispanic American Literature, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women....
- Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2025
An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society...
- by Noé Álvarez
- Biographies, Immigrant Stories, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington,...
- 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...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly...
- Coming of Age
- Publication Year: 2024
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated...
- by Ijeoma Oluo
- Activism and Social Justice, Cultural Anthropology, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who...
- Black Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo—and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love matter. Her message: be smart (she has a medical degree after...
- by Julia Lee
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How...
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson. Veycosi, in training...
- by M.L. Wang
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted...
- by Danez Smith
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future,...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation. An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's, Children's Picture Book, Preschool
- Publication Year: 2024
A Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to their family’s traditions — begrudgingly! — in this picture book written by Walter Award-winner Andrea L. Rogers and featuring gorgeous collage illustrations...
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2024
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Sports
- Publication Year: 2024
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner...
- by Connie Chung
- Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
In a sharp, witty, and frank memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung pulls no punches in detailing her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into...
- by Nicole Cuffy
- Black Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she’s promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She’s instantly catapulted...
- 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...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.
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- Epic Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklore Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head…and the young woman caught in between comes...
- by Tessa Hulls
- Graphic Novels, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of...
- 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 Mai Korland
- Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
It’s the season for treason… The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective:...
- by MJ Harris
- Business and Entrepreneurship, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
It ain’t easy getting your shit together, but this book is the solution. And Tabitha Brown says, “you can trust him.” If any of this sounds like you, it’s best...
- by ‘Pemi Aguda
- City Life Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos,...
- by Jayci Lee
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance
- Publication Year: 2025
A K-drama actress gets her second chance at love with the man she left to save her family, if only she can work up the courage to risk her heart...
- by Gina Chung
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Equal parts fantastical—a pair of...
- by Yulin Kuang
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2024
Two writers with a complicated history end up working on the same TV show… Can they write themselves a new ending? A sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull...
- by Sejal Shah
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2024
From the author of This Is One Way to Dance, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic...
- Fiction, Horror Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Thriller, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
A classic slasher story with a twist from Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the...
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
After four years of hell, Katie Wu is finally safe. Too bad her heart hasn’t gotten the memo. When pop singer Katie Wu returns to Seoul after escaping an abusive...
- Folklore Adaptation, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
Set in 19th century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks...
- American Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- Memoir, Nonfiction, Political Commentary
- Publication Year: 2024
From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. On the...
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed...
- 8-12 Years, Children's Chapter Book, Middle School
- Publication Year: 2024
An exciting follow-up to Lei and the Fire Goddess features a mysterious, invisible island, dangerous spirits, and a newcomer who does not need Lei’s help…or does she? It turns out...
- by Kevin Kwan
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners. Rufus Leung...
- by Thao Votang
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age
- Publication Year: 2024
Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly’s unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present, perfect for...
- by Jackie Lau
- Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2024
Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents’ friends. You’d think he single-handedly...
- 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...
- Alternate History Science Fiction, Black Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths...
- by Lisa Ko
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? In the early 1980s, Giselle...
- 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 Ramit Sethi
- Nonfiction, Personal Finance
- Publication Year: 2024
This New York Times bestselling book by the author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich shows how to navigate finances while in a relationship. Personal finance juggernaut Ramit...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Dystopian, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown...
- Action & Adventure Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd...
- by Jayci Lee
- Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her...
- by Julie C. Dao
- Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
Dracula’s Lucy Westenra like you’ve never seen her before: In this retelling from critically acclaimed author Julie C. Dao, the perfect woman bites back. Lucy Westenra is beautiful, rich, loved...
- by Nicola Yoon
- Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can...
- Black Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom. In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams...
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won’t want to hang up on. “Yes, hi, Mari. It’s me. I’m over my...
- by Leanne Su
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Moss is a pilot aboard the Rusty Raccoon, a trash collection ship traveling through interstellar space. Moss is sleepwalking through existence, but when she stumbles across her supervisor Turnip attempting...
- by Carrie Sun
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture. When we meet Carrie Sun, she...
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors. Some...
- by Rachel Khong
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2024
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily...
- Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2024
Just a date . . . or a twist of fate? When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the...
- by Kennedy Ryan
- Black Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2024
Neevah Saint is ready for the spotlight. After months as an understudy, this is her night to shine. She never imagined he would be in the audience. Canon Holt. Famous...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as...
- by Weike Wang
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations, from award-winning author of Chemistry Weike Wang. Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who...
- Asian American Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers...
- by Nikki Payne
- Black Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2024
There’s never a good time to learn you are your father’s secret child—especially not at the reading of his will. With their father’s affairs laid bare and Nora’s sensible reputation...
- by Juli Min
- Asian American Fiction, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
From a wise observer “of the ever-complicated matters of the heart” (Kirstin Chen) comes an unforgettable debut novel about a changing family in a changing world. To the outside world,...
- Alternate History Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2022
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything. “I...
- 4-6 Years, 6-8 Years, Children's
- Publication Year: 2024
When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
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...
- by Natalie Caña
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2024
The third book in the riotously funny Vega Family Love Stories finds self-assured firefighter Leo Vega trying to reignite a flame that’s gone cold and finally bring his secret love...
- Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2024
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access. Political instability, poverty, climate...
- Black Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning...
- Biographies, Demographic Studies, Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher...
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. It’s the...
- American Literature, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Iranian-American multimillionaires Ali and Homa Milani have it all—a McMansion in the hills of Los Angeles, a microwaveable snack empire, and four spirited daughters. There’s Violet, the big-hearted aspiring model;...
- 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...
- Black Fiction, Family Life
- Publication Year: 2024
“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved...
- Horror Fiction, Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to...
- by Tiffany Yu
- Activism and Social Justice, Biographies, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2024
Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD,...
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2024
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia―and sought to transform their lives. How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life...
Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
What does self-care look like when struggling to make ends meet, living with a disability, or navigating intersectional marginalization? How can you prioritize well-being while divesting from systems built to...