Ghost boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes is a really good book I highly recommend, its about a black 12 year old boy in Chicago being shot by a white cop and what happens after, its easy for me personally to read due to the perspective changes (alive to dead) and it doesn't use advanced vocabulary so its easy for people to read
Love this! Does anyone in the comments happen to have recs for fantasy romance written by black authors? One of my current favorite types of thing to read!
It's not a question for hate, nothing like that, but, why mention the author's skin colour or ethnicity? I mean, I don't see the point, I'm more interested in the context of the book than in whether the author is black, white or Mongolian. I'm from Spain, and here we don't care about the skin color from authors, it is irrelevant for us, i don't know if it's different in United States, I want to know please π
Men We Reaped is my fav in that context. It is written very wisely and has a sort of relatability and maturity while being a book about a completely diffrent part of world. It has the potential to make someone cry and leave them satring at the wall.
Ghost boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes is a really good book I highly recommend, its about a black 12 year old boy in Chicago being shot by a white cop and what happens after, its easy for me personally to read due to the perspective changes (alive to dead) and it doesn't use advanced vocabulary so its easy for people to read
Add bell hooks
I really enjoyed white smoke tooβ€
i'd 100% add their vicious games by joelle wellington! one of the best thrillers i've ever read π«Ά
I love the blush you apply…β€ It makes you look so cute and elegant π
Brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Legendborn is one of the absolute BEST books ive ever read, would 100% recommend!!
Love this! Does anyone in the comments happen to have recs for fantasy romance written by black authors? One of my current favorite types of thing to read!
I also recommend Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
I read before I let go it was so good!
Ugh I looooove Octavia Butler πππ
Does the author defeat death and grant whomever believes everlasting life in endless love like Jesus?
could've done this without the obama book ΨͺΩΩ
I was just reading about how black authors are really underrepresented in speculative fiction, so I'm excited to check out Legendborn!
I also just finished The Hate U Give. A little late to the game on that one, I know. But it π was π SO π good!
I also have some Maya Angelou poems on my TBR this month that I'm really excited for.
Magnificent choices β€β€
I would like to add another: The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
These transitions are smoooth!!
have you read All Boys Aren't Blue? Its a memoir of a Black queer man growing up in America, it was also previously a banned book
The books: π
The transitions: π€©
You make reading so fun frfrπ
I didn't enjoy "The sun is also a star", but I really like "everything, everything"
Legendborn looks so badass π It honestly always got me intrigued
children of blood and bone is also a really good book
with february coming up iβve been looking for some books by black authors! thanks for the recs!
I love all of Nicola Yoonβs books!
I didn't like Parable of the Sower. I liked Wild Seed, Fledgling, Mind of My Mind, and Kindred way more.
It's not a question for hate, nothing like that, but, why mention the author's skin colour or ethnicity? I mean, I don't see the point, I'm more interested in the context of the book than in whether the author is black, white or Mongolian. I'm from Spain, and here we don't care about the skin color from authors, it is irrelevant for us, i don't know if it's different in United States, I want to know please π
Say I have a question have you read the book βThe color purple?β
Parable of the sower – and Butlet in general- is one of the best books ever
Have read Gaines and Butler and plan to read the McBride and the Yoon this coming spring! π
Men We Reaped is my fav in that context.
It is written very wisely and has a sort of relatability and maturity while being a book about a completely diffrent part of world. It has the potential to make someone cry and leave them satring at the wall.
Thanks for the recs. I love legendborn so bad!