Best Books for every Genre

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Nigerian | Mental Health | Family)
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar (Indian | Queer rep | Islamophobia)
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Palestinian | Queer)

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (African American | Race | Colorism)
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (African American | Science Fiction | Time Travel | Slavery)
• The Silence of Bones by June Hur (Korean | Joseon Period | Murder Mystery)

• Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Haitian | Young Adult | Pride and Prejudice retelling)
• Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (Indian | Feminist)
• Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho (Chinese-Malaysian | Meddling Family)

• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (Indigenous | Dystopian | Reproductive Rights)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Nigerian | Magic | Adventure)
• The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin (African American | Science Fiction)

• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (African American | Thriller | Gentrification) 
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (African American | Thriller | Puritan | Feminism)
• And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall (African American | Woman PI | Mystery)

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villaviencio 
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• In the Dream House, A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Novel-in-Verse | Memoir | Civil Rights)
• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar (Poetry | Pakistani/Muslim | Feminism)
• Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (Novel-in-Verse | Black and Indigenous rep | Young Adult)

• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
• Kink, Stories, edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell (Queer rep)
• Two Times Removed, curated and edited by Jada Chutkhan (Indo-Caribbean)

• Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri (realistic fiction)
• Teen Titan: Raven by Kami Garcia (fantasy | superheros)
• March Trilogy by John Lewis (historical | memoir)

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigerian | Nonbinary | Fantasy)
• Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango (Puerto Rican| Mental Health)
• A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Thai | Fantasy Adventure)

• The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez (African American)
• Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi (Pakistani/Muslim)
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi (African American)

All of these titles are highly recommended and worthy of your growing TBR. What's your favorite genre?

Best,

Tuma