

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Synopsis "It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the...
Apr 3, 20212 min read


The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Synopsis "Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave...
Mar 6, 20212 min read


Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Synopsis "Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about...
Nov 28, 20202 min read


The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin
Synopsis "This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long...
Nov 6, 20202 min read


The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Synopsis "Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's...
Oct 30, 20202 min read


Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
"After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A...
Oct 8, 20202 min read


Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals #2.5) by Alyssa Cole
"While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her...
Sep 17, 20202 min read


Lore & Lust (Book #1) by Karla Nikole
"Haruka Hirano is alive, but not quite living. Surviving but not thriving. As an elite purebred vampire in the twenty-first century, he...
Sep 12, 20202 min read


The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
"This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small...
Sep 9, 20202 min read


So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
"Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it...
Sep 4, 20202 min read