Black Book Gift Guide – adults
Here are 28 suggestions to help you choose the ideal book whether for your sister, dad, best friend or neighbour.
Author: Shade Lapite
Black Book Gift Guide – Children
Books make great gifts. I think it’s particularly important to buy Black books for the children in our lives because they deserve to see children who look like them playing the lead role in stories. I’ve compiled 22 book suggestions you can use as a starting point.
Remembering Sareeta Domingo
Sareeta was radiant, fiercely intelligent, and a creative juggernaut. She lifted Black creatives up in any way she could.
Video review: Reasons to love Sonali Dev’s Bollywood series
A Bollywood Affair and The Bollywood Bride are the first two books in Sonali Dev’s Bollywood series. They are two of my favourite romance novels, my go-to comfort reads, and brilliantly addictive. I could give a TED talk on why they should feature at the top of every Best Romance list.
Video Review: Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Bethany has been rejected by both boys she invited to homecoming, and Jacob has been dumped by two of the hottest girls in school. All this and the fall semester has barely begun!
Video Review: Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
After years of reckless spending the aristocratic Gresham family are facing bankruptcy. Rufus, a young, handsome future earl, is forced to choose between marrying for money or defying his mother and following his heart.
Video Review: Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
Anyanwu’s peaceful life is destroyed when Doro, an immortal spirit-being with great power, seeks her out and forces her into his ‘seed community’.
Video review: The Trees by Percival Everett
It is a satirical exploration of the practice of lynching that helped to uphold white supremacy in the US from slavery to the present day.
Video review: Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao
Half vampire and half fox-spirit, Lady Jing doesn’t fit into any of the supernatural groups that populate Immortal Shanghai. While babysitting a meek mortal she starts investigating what her cruel grandmother is up to.
Goddess Crown: Author Q&A
When assassins attack her home on her sixteenth birthday, Kalothia flees to the royal court – a beautiful but lethal nest of poison, plots and danger.
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