Television is great and movies are amazing, but there’s something about sitting down with a good book that provides an unmatched experience for millions of readers worldwide. The stories that these writers create can make imaginations run wild, and take people to a place far, far away, without having to leave their own homes. What is special about Black authors, is they write with an emotion that cannot be reached by many of their contemporaries of another race.
2023 will serve to be a big year for writers of color. Memoirs, works of fiction, graphic novels and the like, are all being published before the year ends. National figures such as Stacey Abrams, Colin Kaepernick, and Dr. Imani J. Walker will release books in the near future, while writers like NPR’s Aisha Harris are hoping to make a name for themselves in the sometimes-oversaturated field of literature.
Books have been around for thousands of years, so it’s always interesting to see a wealth of new and unique stories still being published today. From Zaria Wade to Nyani Nkrumah, here are 31 books we can’t wait for you to read in 2023
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Jamila Minnicks – Moonrise Over New Jessup (1/10)
“Moonrise Over New Jessup” is the debut novel from Jamila Minnicks. Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, the book tells the story of a Black woman who does whatever it takes to protect all that she loves in a fictional Alabama town at the beginning of the civil rights movement.
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