Back To School-September 2023 Releases

AHHHHHHHHHH, September is here and it’s making me wonder where the summer went! It feels too soon to say that a new school year is starting (or has started in some states) and I (like so many other educators) am not completely okay. Alas, it’s still an exciting time because along with the new school year jitters there are SO MANY new books that are coming out this month! You maybe fearful for your bank accounts, library holds or both depending on which route you choose to go in acquiring your books!

Despite possible worry for one’s bank accounts and/or library holds, I’m super excited about the books coming out this month and maybe you are too! As usual, please double check the titles as their pub dates can be moved at any point in time! This is quite an extensive list, just to warn you!

• The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jeree *adult* 9/5
• Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez *adult companion* 9/5
• Into The Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline 9/5
• The Spirit Glass by Roshani Chokshi *MG* 9/5
• Up Home by Ruth J. Simmons *adult* 9/5
• The Light On Halsey Street by Vanessa Miller 9/5
• Everyone’s Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni 9/5
• There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer 9/5
• Mascot by Charles Waters & Traci Sorell 9/5
• Warrior Girl by Carmen Tafolla 9/5
• Suddenly A Murder by Lauren Munoz 9/5
• Spider-man’s Bad Connection by Preeti Chhibber *MG Sequel* 9/5
• Locs Not Dreads by Tonya Abari; ill. Chasity Hampton *PB* 9/5
• The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society by Melissa De La Cruz 9/5
• Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor by Claudia Romo Edelman *MG* 9/5
• Hispanic Star: Ellen Ochoa by Claudia Romo Edelman *MG* 9/5
• Skeletina And The Greedy Tooth Fairy by Susie Jaramillo *PB* 9/5
• Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi & Shazleen Khan *MG* 9/5
• Dona Quixote: Rise Of The Knight by Rey Terciero & Monica M. Magana *MG* 9/5
• The Long Game by Elena Armas *adult* 9/5
• Mama’s Sleeping Scarf by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Nwa Grace-James *PB* 9/5
• The Goblin Twins by Frances Cha; ill. Jaime Kim *PB* 9/5
• Hush Harbor by Anise Vance *adult* 9/5
• What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama *adult* 9/5
• Kicks In The Sky by C. G. Esperanza *PB* 9/5
• Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla by Alexandra Diaz *MG* 9/5
• The Art Of Desire by Selena Montgomery *adult* 9/5
• Veo, Veo, I See You by Lulu Delacre *PB* 9/5
• The Bravest Warrior In Nefaria by Adi Alsaid *MG* 9/5
• Finch House by Ciera Burch *MG* 9/5
• Aristotle And Dante Dive Into The Waters Of The World by Benjamin Alire Saenz *sequel* 9/5
• Swimming Toward A Dream by Reem Faruqi; ill. Asma Enayeh *PB* 9/5
• Not A New York Love Story by Julian Voloj; ill. Andreas Gefe 9/5
• Her Own Happiness by Eden Appiah-Kubi *adult* 9/5
• Penguin And Ollie by Salina Yoon *PB* 9/5
• Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales Of Light And Life by Zoraida Cordova, Tessa Gratton, Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Lydia Kang, George Mann, Daniel Jose Older, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule 9/5
• Confession by Martin Kohan *adult translated* 9/5
• Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li *adult* 9/5
• Living My Best Life, Hun by London Hughes *adult* 9/5
• Tell It Like It Is by Aaron Neville *adult* 9/5
• Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon by Edgar Calabia Samar 9/5
• A Section Of My Life by Shocka *adult* 9/7
• To Have And To Hold: Faking Love by Tatum James *adult* 9/8
• Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote *adult audiobook* 9/11
• Digging Stars by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma *adult* 9/12
• Witch Of Wild Things by Racquel Vasquez Gilliland *adult* 9/12
• Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz *adult* 9/12
• The Name Drop By Susan Lee 9/12
• Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson 9/12
• Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem by Roseanne A. Brown *MG Sequel* 9/12
• Goddess Crown By Shade Lapite 9/12
• Monstrous by Jessica Lewis 9/12
• Punish For Dreaming by Bettina L. Love *adult* 9/12
• Rez Ball by Byron Graves 9/12
• A House For Alice by Diana Evans *adult* 9/12
• Eagle Drums by Nasuraq Rainey Hopson *MG* 9/12
• The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans *MG* 9/12
• Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake 9/12
• Esperanza Caramelo, The Star Of Nochebuena by Karla Arenas Valenti, ill. Elisa Chavarri *PB* 9/12
• Pepita Meets Bebita by Ruth Behar & Gabriel Frye-Behar *PB* 9/12
• Cantora by Melisa Fernandez Nitsche *PB* 9/12
• Baking With Mi Abuelita by Julissa Mora *ER* 9/12
• Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango *MG* 9/12
• Race To The Truth: Colonization And The Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs *MG* 9/12
• Race To The Truth: Slavery And The African American Story by Patricia Williams Dockery *MG* 9/12
• Slowly Slowly by Toni Yuly *PB* 9/12
• In These Hallowed Halls edited by M.L. Rio, Olivie Blake & Susie Yang 9/12
• Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, And Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin *adult* 9/12
• The Shape Of Time by Ryan Calejo *MG* 9/12
• La Noche Before Three Kings Day by Sheila Colón-Bagley *PB* 9/12
• Nails And Eyes by Kaori Fujino *Adult Translated* 9/12
• Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe *adult translated* 9/12
• Land Of Smoke by Sara Gallardo *adult translated* 9/12
• Totem by Laura Perez *adult* 9/12
• The Buddha at Bedtime Treasury By Dharmachari Nagaraja *PB* 9/12
• Rouge by Mona Awad *adult* 9/12
• Flipping Boxcars by Cedric Kyles *adult* 9/12
• ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read By Raúl the Third *PB Series* 9/12
• For The Loot by Han Yang & Pearce Adams *Sequel* 9/12
• Aloha: A Charitable Anthology edited by K.A. Linde *adult* 9/12
• Fox Woman Get Out! By India Lena Gonzalez *adult* 9/12
• The Devil Of The Provinces by Juan Cardenas *adult translated* 9/12
• Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon *adult* 9/12
• Heart Of Night And Fire by Nisha Tuli *adult* 9/15
• Tacos by Frank Asch *PB* 9/19
• Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. *adult* 9/19
• The Princess Of Thornwood Drive by Khalia Moreau *adult* 9/19
• All the Fighting Parts By Hannah V. Sawyerr 9/19
• The Golden Gate by Amy Chua *adult* 9/19
• A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney *sequel* 9/19
• Adia Kelbara And The Circle Of Shamans by Isi Hendrix *MG* 9/19
• Nightbreaker by Coco Ma 9/19
• Champion Of Fate by Kendare Blake 9/19
• Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom & Bridget George *PB* 9/19
• Harlem At Four by Michael Datcher, ill. Frank Morrison *PB* 9/19
• I Am Kavi by Thushanthi Ponweera *MG* 9/19
• Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview And Other Conversations *adult* 9/19
• Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias *adult* 9/19
• Enlighten Me by Minh Le & Chan Chou *MG* 9/19
• Of Dreams And Destiny by Sandhya Menon *Series* 9/19
• Murder And Mamon by Mia P. Manansala *adult series* 9/19
• I’m Going To Build A Snowman by Jashar Awan *PB* 9/19
• Loud And Proud by Lisa Cline-Ransome; ill. Kaylani Juanita *PB* 9/19
• 80’s Baby by Hannah Eliot; ill. Alyssa Nassner *PB* 9/19
• Kin by Carole Boston Weatherford; ill. Jeffery Boston Weatherford *PB* 9/19
• Meet Me Halfway by Anika Fajardo *MG* 9/19
• Candeleria by Melissa Lozada-Oliva *adult* 9/19
• Furysong by Rosaria Munda 9/19
• Memo And The Unexpected Gift by Funda Ozlem Seran, Ezgi Keles & Amy Marie Spangler *PB* 9/19
• When A Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Qureshi *MG* 9/19
• Wild Girls by Tiya Miles *adult* 9/19
• I’m From By Gary R. Gray, Jr., Ill. Oge Mora *PB* 9/19
• Viper’s Dream by Jake Lamar *adult* 9/19
• Jungle Juice by Hyeong Eun 9/19
• The Blood Of My Mother by Roccie Hill *adult* 9/19
• Between The Head And The Hands by James Chaarani *adult* 9/26
• The Grimmer by Naben Ruthnum 9/26
• The Longest Night In Egypt by David Anthony Durham *MG Sequel* 9/26
• Mindy Kim And The Mid-Autumn Festival by Lyla Lee; ill. Dung Ho *ER* 9/26
• The Critter Café by Dela Costa; ill. Ana Sebastian *ER* 9/26
• Enlightened by Sachi Edinweera 9/26
• Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter by Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Candace Buford 9/26
• Mermaids Never Drown: Tales To Dive For edited by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie C. Parker *adult* 9/26
• The Changing Man by Tomi Oyemakinde 9/26
• Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons 9/26
• The Memory Thieves by Dhonielle Clayton *MG Sequel* 9/26
• Rayleigh Mann in the Company of Monsters By Ciannon Smart *MG* 9/26
• Kiss And Spell by Celestine Martin *Adult Companion* 9/26
• If I Have to Be Haunted by Miranda Sun 9/26
• Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong *series* 9/26
• A Sky Of Paper Stars by Susie Yi *MG* 9/26
• Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor *Reprint* 9/26
• Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis 9/26
• Alex Wise Vs The End Of The World by Terry J. Benton-Walker *MG* 9/26
• Nubia: The Reckoning by Omar Epps & Clarence Haynes *Sequel* 9/26
• An Impossible Thing To Say by Arya Shahi 9/26
• Jasmine Toguchi: Great Gardener by Debbi Michiko Florence *MG Series* 9/26
• Skyscraper Babies by April Pulley Sayre, Jeff Sayre & Juliet Menendez *PB* 9/26
• See You On The Other Side by Rachel Montez Minor, ill. Mariyah Rahman *PB* 9/26
• Rizos by Claribel Ortega, ill. Rose Bousamra, Translated by Jasminne Mendez *MG* 9/26
• Three Holidays And A Wedding by Usma Jalaluddin & Marissa Staphy *adult* 9/26
• Wrapped With A Beau by Lillie Vale *adult* 9/26
• Unrealistic Expectations by Andie J. Christopher *adult* 9/26
• Of All Tribes by Joseph Bruchac *MG* 9/26
• And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott *adult* 9/26
• Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman; ill. Christian Robinson *PB* 9/26
• The Light Within You by Namita Moolani Mehra; ill. Kamala Nair *PB* 9/26
• Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington *adult* 9/26
• The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories by Jun’Inchiro Tanizaki *adult translated* 9/26
• Restless by Joseph Kai 9/26
• Say My Name By Joanna Ho, Ill. Khoa Le *PB* 9/26
• Dork Diaries: Tales From A Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure by Rachel Renee Russell *MG* 9/26
• The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis *adult* 9/26

Whew, that’s quite the list! From this list, I received quite a few ARCs to read. Here are the ones I have:

• Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez *adult companion*
• Into The Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
• There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer
• Suddenly A Murder by Lauren Munoz
• Skeletina And The Greedy Tooth Fairy by Susie Jaramillo *PB*
• Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz *adult*
• The Name Drop By Susan Lee
• Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson
• Eagle Drums by Nasuraq Rainey Hopson *MG*
• The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans *MG*
• Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. *adult*
• A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney *sequel*
• Adia Kelbara And The Circle Of Shamans by Isi Hendrix *MG*
• Nightbreaker by Coco Ma
• The Longest Night In Egypt by David Anthony Durham *MG Sequel*
• Mermaids Never Drown: Tales To Dive For edited by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie C. Parker *adult*
• The Changing Man by Tomi Oyemakinde
• Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
• The Memory Thieves by Dhonielle Clayton *MG Sequel*
• Rayleigh Mann in the Company of Monsters By Ciannon Smart *MG*
• Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
• Alex Wise Vs The End Of The World by Terry J. Benton-Walker *MG*
• Unrealistic Expectations by Andie J. Christopher *adult*

Of these ARCs, so far I’ve read:

• Full Moon Over Freedom by Angelina M. Lopez *adult companion*
• Into The Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
• There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer
• Suddenly A Murder by Lauren Munoz
• Currently Reading: Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz *adult*

Alright y’all, I need to go be an adult and do some non-book related work but I had to share this list with you all! What titles are you excited about? Did I forget any titles by any Authors of Color? Let me know here in the comments or on social media on Instagram @bookishgirlmagic (you can look out for when I go live, which is sporadic but does happen), Twitter (I refuse to use that new “name” because what even is that?!) @bookishgrlmagic, Threads @bookishgirlmagic (I’m not on it like I am on twitter cause ya girl has social media fatigue) and Clubhouse @bookishgrlmagic where you can find me mostly in book centered clubs/rooms (mostly on Tuesdays and Fridays) to chat with me. Also subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already because it makes me feel like I’m ready for a new school year! And to those who are subscribed, thank you so much, I truly appreciate y’all! Sending y’all bookish love and wishing you happy reading!