Happy New Year, everyone!
What books are you excited to read this year? Below are some (this is just a snippet of books 2017 has to offer!) new African, African-American and Caribbean novels that look very promising.
Please click on the images to read the blurbs and/or to purchase the books.
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Read blurb/Purchase Difficult Women
Read blurb/Purchase Foreign Soil: And Other Stories
Read blurb/Purchase Radio Sunrise
Read blurb/Purchase Welcome to Lagos
Read blurb/Purchase Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Read blurb/Purchase Dance of the Jakaranda
Read blurb/Purchase Period Pain
Read blurb/ Purchase There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Read blurb/Purchase American Street
Read blurb/Purchase The Hate U Give
Read blurb/Purchase The January Children (African Poetry Book)
Read blurb/Purchase Stay with Me: A novel
Read blurb/Purchase Amiable with Big Teeth (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Read blurb/Purchase The Wide Circumference of Love: A Novel
Read blurb/Purchase What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
Read blurb/Purchase My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
Read blurb/Purchase Kintu
Read blurb/Purchase Season of Crimson Blossoms
Read blurb/Purchase Black Moses: A Novel
Read blurb/Purchase Adua
Read blurb/Purchase What We Lose: A Novel
Read blurb/Purchase Death by His Grace (A Darko Dawson Mystery)
Read blurb/Purchase Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Other books to look out for:
- Is Oprah coming out with a memoir? I thought I read something along those lines last year. I’d keep my eyes open for that! But she recently came out with a cookbook – Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life
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- There’s been a graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred – Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
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- Teju Cole has a travelogue-esque/collection of photos called Blind Spot
that will be released in June/July.
- Über cool poet Danez Smith will have a new collection out called Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
in September.
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that will be released in June/July.
What new releases are you excited about? Please do share!
