70 Books by BIPOC Authors Coming Out in October to Add to Your List

My reading game was lagging a little last month and I can’t say that I knocked that many books off my list. In any case, this month I’m adding a whole bunch more, LOL.

Here are the books at the top of my list this month:

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Coates is one of those writers who digs deep and allows you to open your mind. In ‘The Message,’ he returns to essays that explore the art of writing but, in true Coates fashion, goes way beyond that. I can’t wait to dig into this one.

Love After Midnight A Novel by Sister Souljah

I won’t speak about how Souljah’s last book fell a little short for me, what I will say is that I strongly feel she will redeem herself with this latest one.

After suffering a horrifying, yet soul-stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch Winter Santiaga, of The Coldest Winter Ever, is alive and facing a dilemma that every living person how to respond to the Fear of God, awareness of heaven and hell, while pursuing and satisfying deep desires for sex, fun, love, money, revenge, and fame. In her new novel, Love After Midnight, Sister Souljah delivers a powerful hip-hop hood style, global romantic comedy.

Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions by Nalo Hopkinson

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In her first stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien lifeform; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.

This Motherless Land by Nikki May

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love.

Here are additional diverse books coming out this month that you should add to your list:

Brown Women Have Everything Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight by Sayantani Dasgupta
Heir Duology #1 Heir by Sabaa Tahir
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
My Life: Growing Up Native in America IllumiNative (editor)
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson
Da Baddest by Trina and Sesali Bowen
Love After Midnight A Novel by Sister Souljah
Love Can’t Feed You A Novel by Cherry Lou Sy
The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew
The Most Wonderful Time by Jayne Allen
This Cursed House by Del Sandeen
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds
Under All the Lights by Maya Ameyaw
Wild Chocolate Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul by Rowan Jacobsen
Humans in Shackles An Atlantic History of Slavery by Ana Lucia Araujo
Lightning in Her Hands by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Natural Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair by Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson
All Our Wars A Novel by Stephanie Vasquez
Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith
Unruly A Guide to Reclaiming Your True Self by Shelah Marie
For She Is Wrath by Emily Varga
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions by Nalo Hopkinson
Sleeping with the Frenemy A Novel by Natalie Caña
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
How to Build a Fashion Icon: Notes on Confidence from the World’s Only Image Architect by Law Roach
Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton
Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By: Easy, Memory-Making Family Dishes for Every Occasion: by Al Roker & Courtney Roker Laga
Here: Where the Black Designers Are by Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller
While I Have Your Attention by Dr. Lucille O’Neal
The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew
The Day God Saw Me as Black: The Journey to Liberated Faith by D. Danyelle Thomas
Run Man Run by Chester Himes
Morningside: A Survivor’s Story of the Greensboro Massacre by Aran Robert Shetterly
The Year of Letting Go: 365 Days Pursuing Emotional Freedom by r.h. Sin
Heart of a Thug: Omar & Keisha’s Tale by Keely
For There Is Always Light: A Journal by Amanda Gorman
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas: A Festive House-Swap Romance by Georgia K. Boone
Potato Chip Pimp: An Addictive Urban Tale by London Winters
Tangleroot by Kalela Williams
I Was Told There Would Be Romance by Marie Arnold
Holly Grove Island #3: The Soulmate Project by Reese Ryan
The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
How to Build a Fashion Icon: Notes on Confidence from the World’s Only Image Architect by Law Roach

Here are diverse children’s books coming out in October

Getting Us to Grandma’s by Nadia L. Hohn
Rise of the Wrecking Crew by Kalynn Bayron
Is There a Boy Like Me? by Kern Carter
Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah
Bella Ballerina by Sharon M. Draper, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn
Manga Bible: The Story of God in a Graphic Novel by Siku
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined by David F. Walker
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Artists Shaping the World: Picture Book Edition by Sharna Jackson
Kamala Raised Her Hand by Raakhee Mirchandani, Illustrated by Supriya Kelkar
Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s by Carole Boston Weatherford
Our Joyful Noise by Gabriele Davis
My Hair Is My Friend by Myrce’tez Gowan-Perkins
We Are Free, You and Me by Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab
My Hair Is Like Yours by St. Clair Detrick-Jules illustrated by Tabithat Brown
A Split Second by Janae Marks
Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
Onyx & Beyond by Amber McBride
The Best Friend Bracelet by Nicole D. Collier
Melanin Magic: A Young Mystic’s Guide to African Spirituality by Dossé-Via Trenou
Bird Nerd by Jennifer Ann Richter
The Rise of Issa Igwe by Shanna Miles
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett