Here are the December 2021 new release book titles from Black Authors. Use our Bookshop links to support the blog and indie bookstores. And grab our Book Blogger’s Planner to help track your reading and social media goals! Only $10 and ships free!!
The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman. Explore the globe with Waffles + Mochi and learn about the stories behind the food we eat in this accessible, child-friendly cookbook, based on the Netflix children’s show from Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix. If you had the chance to change your future, would you take it? Perfect for fans of Neal Shusterman and Jason Reynolds, this powerhouse, mind-bending YA debut follows two teens, a generation apart, whose fates collide across time–and outside of it. He’s cosplaying as her boyfriend but their feelings for each other are real in this romantic comedy from Seressia Glass. Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart … about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system. From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. Middle school is hard–but it’s way harder when a fairy godmother puts you under a truth-telling spell! Stardom crashed like an avalanche onto this female rap artist. Now getting justice, real power, and true respect will be the hardest fight of her life…
