These three books could not e more different. We start with sweet and innocent teenagers and end with a mass murder, maintaining a little messiness in between.

Honey and Spice By Bolu Babalola

This story is about everything from racism to love to politics. Is is a British book and over 300 pages. This book screams 2 Can Play That Game, and Dear White People, and All skin folk aint kin folk.

Is that good?

Black Cake By Charmaine Wilkerson Published 2022

This is a beautiful story of a set of siblings learning the story of their mother while dealing with her death.

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Published 2019

A realistic fiction that follows Queenie, a 25 yar-old Jamaican-Brit, through life and love.

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Published 2019

Moving backward and forward through time this novel speaks to how the history of yesterday plays all of the notes lived today.

Vinyl Moon By Mahogany L. Browne Published 2022

A teenage girl hides the scars of a past relationship and finds a home and healing in the words of strong Black writers.

The Vanishing Half By Brit Bennett Published 2020

This book speaks about the two very different lives that two "passing" sisters chose to explore after leaving their small town.

Grown by Tiffany Jackson Published in 2020

This is a story that explores the violent and ugly underbelly of what it could take to become famous if one is not very careful.

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