New Books, New Year-January 2024 Releases

Hey everyone, Happy New Year! I’m so glad that we have made it into this new year. From the bottom of my heart, I hope that it brings you all the amazing things.

Before we get into this list, I do want to apologize for how absent I’ve been. The last few months have been really tough and I’ve been wading through the mental sludge & processing them. I’ll share more in another post when I feel a little more ready to. I wanted to apologize to you all because so many of you have been rocking with me since the beginning & even those who are newer, you all have still been around and I appreciate you all so very much. It is my intent to do better and be more present along with find balance this year.

Now back to this post! I am super excited about the new book releases that this year will bring and January has some amazing books coming out! This is a really long list and I likely missed some books, so my deepest apologies! As usual, double check the publisher websites & Author pages for any changes because they happen last minute (*sucks teeth*) and I started compiling a list of 2024 releases in 2022 (if you can believe it) so things can definitely have changed. So let’s get into this list!

• Sejal Sinha Dives For Diamonds On Neptune by Maya Prasad *ER Series* 1/2
• Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amelie Wen Zhao *Sequel* 1/2
• Stay With My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan 1/2
• The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum (#1) by Lisa Yee & Dan Santat *MG* 1/2
• Just Happy To Be Here by Naomi Kanakia 1/2
• Manifest In Action by Roxie Nafousi *adult* 1/2
• Who Got Game? Basketball by Derrick Barnes, ill. By Jez Tuya *MG* 1/2
• When I Wrap My Hair By Shauntay Grant, Ill. by Jenin Mohammed *PB* 1/2
• Coretta: The Autobiography Of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King & Ekua Holmes *PB* 1/2
• History Comics: Hip-Hop The Beat Of America by Jarrett Williams *MG* 1/2
• The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan *adult* 1/2
• A Kids Book About Equality by Billie Jean King *PB* 1/2
• A Kids Book About Love by Ziggy Marley *PB* 1/2
• A Ramadan to Remember by Marzieh A. Ali, ill. By Ali Nasser *PB* 1/2
• On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life’s Great Labors by Brandi Sellerz-Jackson *adult* 1/2
• Age Of Vice by Deepti Kapoor *adult* 1/2
• The Reckoning by Wade Hudson *MG* 1/2
• Ghost Roast by Shawnee & Shawnelle Gibbs 1/2
• Kawaii Café Bubble Tea by Stacey Kwong & Beyah del Mundo *MG* 1/9
• In The Upper Country by Kai Thomas *adult* 1/9
• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff *adult* 1/9
• When You Have To Wait by Melanie Conkin & Leah Hong *PB* 1/9
• Somewhere In The Deep by Tanvi Berwah *sequel* 1/9
• Arya Khanna’s Bollywood Moment by Arushi Avachat 1/9
• Lulu Sinagtala And The City Of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva *MG* 1/9
• Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare *adult* 1/9
• You’ll Do: A History Of Marrying For Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug *Adult Non-Fiction* 1/9
• The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Kahn *adult* 1/9
• Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang & Leuyen Pham 1/9
• No Reservations by Sheryl Lister *adult* 1/9
• The Fetishist by Katherine Min *adult* 1/9
• Homegrown by Deann Wiley *PB* 1/9
• Pokemon Adventures: Omega Rudy And Alpha Sapphire by Hidenori Kusaka, ill. By Satoshi Yamamoto 1/9
• China’s World View: Demystifying China To Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li *adult non-fiction* 1/9
• Shut Up, This Is Serious By Carolina Ixta 1/9
• Holiday Country by Inei Atrek *NA* 1/9
• Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto by Kohei Saito, trans. By Brian Bergstrom *adult* 1/9
• You Dreamed Of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, trans. By Natasha Wimmer *adult* 1/9
• My Friends by Hisham Matar *adult* 1/9
• Last Seen In Lapaz by Kwei Quartey *adult* 1/9
• Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns *adult* 1/9
• The Gardins Of Edin by Rosey Lee *adult* 1/9
• A Drop Of Venom by Sajni Patel 1/16
• So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole 1/16
• Beasts Of War by Ayana Gray *Sequel* 1/16
• Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina Kumar *adult* 1/16
• Most Ardently: A Pride And Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa 1/16
• Valley Verified by Kyla Zhao *adult* 1/16
• Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney 1/16
• American Wings by Sherri L. Smith & Elizabeth Wein 1/16
• My Big, Fat Desi Wedding edited by Prerna Pickett 1/16
• Time To Make Art by Jeff Mack *PB* 1/16
• The Night Of The Storm by Nishita Parekh *adult* 1/16
• The Black Yearbook by Adraint Khadafhi Bereal *adult* 1/16
• City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita *adult* 1/16
• Parenting At The Intersections: Raising Neurodivergent Children Of Color by Jaya Ramesh & Priya Saaral *adult non-fiction* 1/16
• Maybe It’s A Sign by E.L. Shen *MG* 1/23
• You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich 1/23
• King Of The Mountain by Susie Lee Jin *ER* 1/23
• Emma And The Love Spell by Meredith Ireland *MG* 1/23
• The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James *adult* 1/23
• Madness: Race And Insanity In A Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton *adult* 1/23
• Between Two Brothers by Crystal Allen *MG* 1/23
• When An Elephant Hears NO by Dazzle Ng, ill. By Estrela Lourenco *PB* 1/23
• The Colliding Worlds Of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh 1/23
• Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar *adult* 1/23
• Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant *adult* 1/23
• Tryin’ To Sleep In The Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant *adult* 1/23
• Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers by Zora Neale Hurston 1/23
• Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham *adult* 1/23
• Eyes That Weave the World’s Wonders By Joanna Ho & Liz Kleinrock, Ill. by Dung Ho *PB* 1/23
• The Summer Queen by Rochelle Hassan *sequel* 1/23
• Into The Sunken City by Dinesh Thiru 1/23
• Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History Of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson *adult* 1/23
• Faebound by Saara El-Arifi 1/23
• The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma *adult* 1/23
• Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjel-Brenyah *adult* 1/23
• Amil And The After by Veera Hiranandani 1/23
• My Favorite Scar by Nicolas Ferraro 1/23
• Kiki Finds Her Voice by Kierra Sheard-Kelly, ill. By Paul Kellam *MG* 1/23
• Her New York Minute by Darby Baham *adult* 1/23
• Wild Life by Opal Wei *adult* 1/23
• Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MD *adult non-fiction* 1/23
• I Did A New Thing: 30 Days To Living Free by Tabitha Brown *adult* 1/30
• The Takeover by Cara Tanamachi *adult* 1/30
• Wander In The Dark by Jumata Emill 1/30
• These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang 1/30
• A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen *adult* 1/30
• Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, And The Battle To Control Haiti by Jake Johnston *adult non-fiction* 1/30
• The American Queen by Vanessa Miller *adult* 1/30
• The Mayor Of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham *adult* 1/30
• Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin By Michelle Meadows, Ill. by Jamiel Law *PB* 1/30
• The Fish Of Small Wishes by Elana K. Arnold & Magdalena Mora *PB* 1/30
• There’s No Place Like Home by Janet Lawler & Tamisha Anthony *PB* 1/30
• Just Say Yes by Goldy Moldavsky 1/30
• All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata *adult* 1/30
• Hard By A Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili *adult* 1/30
• Greek Lessons by Han Kang, trans. By Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won *adult* 1/30
• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan *adult* 1/30
• In Search of Superpowers: A Fantasy Pin World Adventure By Briana Lawrence, Ill. by Joanna Cacao *MG* 1/30
• Star Wars The High Republic: Escape From Valo by Daniel Jose Older, Alyssa Wong, ill. By Petur Antonsson *MG* 1/30
• How We Named The Stars by Andres N. Ordorica *adult* 1/30
• Alterations by Ray Xu *MG* 1/30
• The Last Stand by Antwan Eady, Jarrett Pumphrey & Jerome Pumphrey *PB* 1/30
• Poemhood: Our Black Revival edited by Taylor Byas, Erica Martin & Amber McBride 1/30

That is quite a bit (or lot) of books! It’s another January pub month for the books (get it?…LOL; come on, that was a good one =0P)!

I was blessed by the Bookish Divine powers that be with ARCs for several books coming out this month and they are:

• Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amelie Wen Zhao *Sequel*
• Stay With My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan
• The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum (#1) by Lisa Yee & Dan Santat *MG*
• A Drop Of Venom by Sajni Patel
• So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole
• Beasts Of War by Ayana Gray *Sequel*
• Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina Kumar *adult*
• Most Ardently: A Pride And Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
• Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney
• Maybe It’s A Sign by E.L. Shen *MG*
• You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich
• The Takeover by Cara Tanamachi *adult*
• Wander In The Dark by Jumata Emill
• These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang

Of these books, so far I have read:

• Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amelie Wen Zhao *Sequel* (I went to the launch & it was really great!)
• Stay With My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan
• The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum (#1) by Lisa Yee & Dan Santat *MG*
• Currently Reading: A Drop Of Venom by Sajni Patel

This is quite the list so let me know if there is anything you are excited about! Like I previously said, it is likely that I missed some releases for this month so please do let me know if there are any books by Authors Of Color that should be included in the comments here or on social media. You can find me on Instagram @bookishgirlmagic (look out for when I go live, which is still sporadic but does happen), Twitter (I’m not calling it a single letter) @bookishgrlmagic, Threads @bookishgirlmagic (I’m not on it like I am on twitter but I post on occasion) 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 it will be a truly happy new bookish year! And to those who are subscribed, continued thanks, I really truly appreciate y’all! Sending y’all bookish love and wishing you happy reading always!