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New Releases by Black Authors

October 2026

  • It's Only Dancingby Jasmine Guillory
    Not ratedpublished October 6, 2026

    New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory makes her highly-anticipated young adult debut with a Dirty Dancing -inspired contemporary romcom! It's the summer before her senior year of high school and Katherine (Kitty to her family) wants to be spending it interning for an...

  • Petrichorby Ayo Oyeku
    Not ratedpublished October 12, 2026

    Osogbo, 1975. Before the rains break, a lorry carries twelve-year-old Jola Balogun away from his mother and towards St Michael’s, the missionary school meant to be his family’s way out of poverty. A scholarship boy. The first in his family to climb so high. He arrives believing i...

  • Don't Fall (Hunt the Red Hood, #1)by B.B. Reid
    Not ratedpublished October 13, 2026

    From USA Today Bestselling author B.B. Reid comes a fractured retelling of Red Riding Hood. "Guard your heart, foolish girl. The wolves will come to steal it." In a quiet French town steeped in old folklore, Nyx has always believed in logic―not legends. So discovering she's desce...

  • Halvesby Maryam Abdulkarim
    Not ratedpublished October 16, 2026

    Every secret has two sides. Only one survives. All Kehinde Bello wants is to survive orientation camp and secure a good place of primary assignment in Abuja. But when her twin sister begins to act strangely and a dead body turns up, her hopes for an ordinary life begin to unravel...

  • Everything's Not Lostby Frederick Joseph
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    A heart-wrenching yet vividly hopeful novel about a Black girl's struggle to find the quiet beauty in life and friendship amid the chaos of grief and mental illness by New York Times, USA Today , and Indie bestselling author Frederick Joseph. "Frederick is such a grounded and bea...

  • Off Balance (The Heights, #2)by Paula Chase
    Not ratedpublished October 20, 2026

    Gossip is juicier, secrets are bigger, and tensions are higher than ever in this riveting sequel to Balancing Act . Hot Lipz, everyone’s favorite–or least favorite–Chatter account is back at it, stirring up gossip among the rival schools in Da Icy City. Selena knows that it’s onl...

  • Fever Bridgeby Akpoebi Nora Ojeke
    Not ratedpublished October 21, 2026

    One bus. One bridge. No way out. When a public bus stalls in the choking heat of Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge, what begins as an ordinary traffic jam descends into a nightmare. A strange sickness grips the passengers—screaming, coughing, convulsing—until bodies start to drop. Th...

  • Where We Start (The Becoming, #1)by Anita Best
    Not ratedpublished October 24, 2026

  • Terms To Say Yes (Tangled In Crestwood, #1)by Stenasia Grady
    Not ratedpublished October 27, 2026

    Braelyn West has a problem. Her café, Westhouse Coffee, is slipping through her fingers, one unpaid bill at a time. And as much as she hates to admit it, she needs help. She’s worked too hard to lose the one thing she's worked so hard to build. Jeremiah Aves knows what he to beco...

  • The Fall Fix Up (Peach Blossom, #4)by Karmen Lee
    Not ratedpublished October 27, 2026