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Welcome to In Reading Color, a space where we focus on literature by and about people of color.
In Color Readers! How have you been faring so far this winter? The East Coast and Midwest has been having some gnarly weather the past few days. I’ve been hearing from some people how they’ve even been having pipe issues and below freezing temperatures. I hope that wherever you’re reading from, your pipes are treating you right, and the temperature is respecting you!
I’m super excited to celebrate our first Black History Month together, and this month has so many great books coming out that have been authored by Black people! I’m. HYPE. Below are some of the many great books coming out this month that I think you should check out.
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Middle Grade
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed
Wishing Upon the Same Stars by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
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Young Adult
And We Rise by Erica Martin
No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado
Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh
The New Girl by Jesse Q Sutanto
This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
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Adult
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne Allen
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin
Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black
Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander
Ramón and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson
Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy
The Family She Never Met by Caridad Pineiro
Black Love Matters by Jessica P. Pryde
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
Make sure to get your own Read Harder Book Journal from Book Riot to track your reading for the year!
A Little Sumn Extra
- Here are the Canada Reads contenders. If you’re unfamiliar, Canada Reads is a televised battle of the books that started in 2002.
- The PEN America Literary Awards finalists have been announced
- The first annual Black Children’s Book Week will take place this year, February 27- March 5
- The United States Artists (USA) announced its 2022 Class of Fellows, which will receive $50,000 to use as they see fit to further their art
- A mayor in Mississippi has withheld library funds until LGBTQ+ books are removed
- And, in Washington state, LGBTQ+ books were quietly pulled from a middle school library
- Finally, the graphic novel Maus, which depicted Holocaust atrocities, was pulled by a school board in Tennessee
- Tika Viteri mentions how she’s been de-colonizing her science fiction
- Books to help you become a better digital citizen
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How cute is this bookmark from a Black-owned Etsy shop? $10
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Thanks for reading; it’s been cute! If you want to reach out and connect, email me at erica@riotnewmedia.com or tweet at me @erica_eze_. You can find me on the Hey YA podcast with the fab Tirzah Price, as well as in the In The Club newsletter.
Until next week!
-E