2024 Time's Must-Read Books by BIPOC Authors
Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more from Time’s Must-Read Books of 2024.
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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,...
- 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....
- 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,...
- 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 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,...
- 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 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 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 ‘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 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 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 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 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 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...
- 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...
- 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 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he...
- by Yasmin Zaher
- City Life Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman’s unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags,...
- by Monika Kim
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Horror Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won’s life tumbles into...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. It is said that the canal will be...
- 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...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2024
A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage. In 2002,...
- Native American Literature, Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2024
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on...
- Family Life, Fiction, Psychological Thrillers
- Publication Year: 2024
A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman—in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community. Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his...
- Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports
- Publication Year: 2024
A powerful reflection on basketball, life, and home. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron...
- by Tommy Orange
- American Literature, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Native American Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three...
- Fiction, Horror Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power. The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark...
- by Bora Chung
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires. Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and...
Knife
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...