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.

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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 The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

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 The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

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.
• There’s been a graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred – Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.
• 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.

What new releases are you excited about? Please do share!