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Summer is slipping away, and it’s not that long until the long warm days fizzle away. But as we welcome August there’s plenty to look forward to, including dope-ass reads hitting shelves this month.
Here are the 9 books you should add to your list this month.
A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution.
Publication Date: August 2, 2022.
2. Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
Let’s not even talk about the diverse list of characters in this book. Let’s talk about the engrossing storyline. In the spellbinding sequel to Blood Like Magic, Voya fights to save her witch community from a terrible future, and the results are everything. If you’re looking to get lost in a story then this book won’t disappoint.
Publication Date: August 9, 2022.
3. How You Grow Wings Rimma Onoseta
An emotionally riveting novel for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sánchez about two sisters in Nigeria and their journey to break free of an oppressive home.
Publication Date: August 9, 2022.
4. Eating While Black Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat.
Publication Date: August 16, 2022.
5. A Taste Of Magic by J. Elle
This is a delightful story of a girl who bakes up a plan to save her inner-city magic school. Twelve-year-old Kyana has just discovered she’s a witch! This means classes every Saturday at Park Row Magic Academy, a learning center hidden in the back of the local beauty shop, and Kyana can’t wait to learn spells to help out at home.
Publication Date: August 30, 2022.
6. Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul.
Publication Date: August 30, 2022.
7. Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundbreaking picture book debut introducing young readers to ten revolutionary Black women — both historical and contemporary — who changed the world for the better, inspiring readers today to know their strength, to be brave, and to STAND UP!
Publication Date: August 2, 2022.
8. My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air.
Publication Date: August 23, 2022.
9. Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history.
Publication Date: August 2, 2022.
Those are the books coming out in August that you should add to your list. Remember if you’re reading what everyone else is reading then you’ll probably think the way everyone else is thinking.
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