Hey y’all! My sincerest apologies for this being a little late but none the less, the post is here! It felt like I blinked & it was suddenly February which feels weird! We’re already a month & some days into 2024! It’s also Black History Month so HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH (though I celebrate being Black & the diaspora’s extensive history all year long)!

Me running in late but making sure y’all know I’m/this post’s here

February is bringing us a bunch of new books and I’m excited about so many of them! As usual, be sure to check out the publisher and author pages (websites/socials/etc) to make sure that no dates have changed because things do in fact happen and release dates can be moved! So with that being said, here is the list that I’ve compiled:

  • Yomi And The Power Of The Yumboes by Davina Tijani *MG Sequel* 2/1
  • All This Twisted Glory by Tahereh Mafi *sequel* 2/6
  • Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin *adult* 2/6
  • Little Goddess Girls by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams *MG* 2/6
  • Bless The Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda 2/6
  • The Accidental Crush by Mia Heintzalman *adult* 2/6
  • Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo 2/6
  • Out Of Body by Nia Davenport 2/6
  • ASAP by Axie Oh *companion* 2/6
  • Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar *MG* 2/6
  • Daniel, Deconstructed By James Ramos 2/6
  • Relit edited by Sandra Proudman 2/6
  • Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 2/6
  • Hello, Friends! By Dulce Sloan *adult* 2/6
  • Hair Oil Magic by Anu Chouhan *PB* 2/6
  • No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 2/6
  • Winston Chu Vs The Wingmeisters by Stacey Lee *MG Sequel* 2/6
  • Final Appeal by Remiguez Mroz *adult* 2/6
  • Eclipse: Our Sky’s Most Dazzling Phenomenon by Kelsey Oseid *PB* 2/6
  • Kadooboo! A Silly South Indian Folktale by Shruthi Rao; ill. By Darshika Varma *PB* 2/6
  • The Girl, The Ring & The Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez 2/6
  • A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams *adult* 2/6
  • The Blue Pickup By Natasha Tripplett, Ill. by Monica Mikai *PB* 2/6
  • How the Boogeyman Became a Poet By Tony Keith Jr. 2/6
  • Drawing Deena by Hena Khan *MG* 2/6
  • Miles Of Style by Lisa D. Brathwaite, ill. Lynn Gaines *PB* 2/6
  • Tales Of The Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan *adult* 2/6
  • Mihi Ever After: Off The Rails by Tae Keller *MG Sequel* 2/6
  • Cranky by Phuc Tran, ill. Pete Oswald *PB* 2/6
  • Dinner On Monster Island by Tania De Rozario *adult* 2/6
  • Girls With Bad Reputations by Xio Axelrod *adult* 2/6
  • The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Iris Perez *adult* 2/6
  • Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield 2/6
  • How To Live Free In A Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson *adult* 2/6
  • Redwood Court by DeLana R. A. Dameron *adult* 2/6
  • The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet *adult* 2/6
  • Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 2/6
  • Who Was Her Own Work Of Art?: Frida Kahlo by Terry Blas, ill. Ashanti Fortson *MG* 2/6
  • Pangu’s Shadow by Karen Bao 2/6
  • Art Club by Rashad Doucet *MG* 2/6
  • The Bodyguard Proposal by Soohk Kaur *adult re-release* 2/12
  • This is How You Fall in Love By Anika Hussain 2/13
  • The Pheonix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang *adult* 2/13
  • The Cure For Burnout: How To Find Balance And Reclaim Your Life by Emily Ballesteros *adult* 2/13
  • A Wild And Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira *adult* 2/13
  • Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi *adult* 2/13
  • The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala 2/13
  • Meegan by Rebekah Weatherspoon *adult companion* 2/13
  • The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo *adult* 2/13
  • Seeds Of Change by Nina Laden, ill. Sawyer Cloud *PB* 2/13
  • The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna *Sequel* 2/13
  • Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson 2/13
  • Search And Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko 2/13
  • Sex, Lies And Sensibility by Nikki Payne *adult companion* 2/13
  • My Side Of The River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez *adult* 2/13
  • Thick With Trouble by Amber McBride *adult* 2/13
  • Her Exception by B. Love *adult audiobook* 2/13
  • Wake Up America: Black Women On The Future Of Democracy edited by Keisha N. Blain *adult* 2/13
  • Waverider: Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi *series* 2/13
  • The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, trans. By Jesse Kirkwood *adult* 2/13
  • The Sitcom Star by Jackie Lau *adult* 2/13
  • The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad *adult* 2/13
  • Status Royale by Ru Xu 2/13
  • A Suffragist’s Guide To The Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai 2/13
  • The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha 2/13
  • V Is For Voting by Kate Farrell, ill. Caitlin Kuhwald *PB* 2/13
  • Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre 2/13
  • Bunt!: Striking Out On Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 2/13
  • Paper Cage: A Novel by Tom Baragwanath *adult* 2/13
  • Village In The Dark by Iris Yamashita *adult* 2/13
  • Neferura by Malayna Evans *adult* 2/13
  • The Age Of Magic by Ben Okri *adult* 2/13
  • What Have We Here? Portraits Of A Life by Billy Dee Williams *adult* 2/13
  • The Nursery by Szilvia Molnar *adult* 2/13
  • Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 2/16
  • Why We Remember by Charan Ranganath, PhD *adult* 2/20
  • The Great Wave: The Era Of Radical Disruption And The Rise Of The Outsider by Michiko Kakutani *adult* 2/20
  • It’s Holi! By Sanyukta Mathur, ill. Courtney Pippin-Mathur *PB* 2/20
  • Mommy’s New Friend by Shelley Tougas, ill. Sara Palacios *PB* 2/20
  • Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented The High Five by Phil Bildner, ill. Daniel J. O’Brien *PB* 2/20
  • Frenemy Fix-Up by Yahrah St. John *adult* 2/20
  • River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta *adult* 2/20
  • Conditions Of A Heart by Bethany Mangle 2/20
  • Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow *adult* 2/20
  • My Throat An Open Grave by Tori Bovalino 2/20
  • How To Win Friends And Influence Fungi by Dr. Chris Balakrishnan & Matt Wasowski *adult* 2/20
  • A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian *adult* 2/20
  • Nana In The Country by Lauren Castillo *PB* 2/20
  • Ours by Phillip B. Williams *adult* 2/20
  • The Diablo’s Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 2/20
  • Sun Of Blood And Ruin by Mariely Lares *adult* 2/20
  • Yumbo Gumbo by Keila V. Dawson *PB* 2/20
  • Cuddly Crochet Plushies by Glory Shofowora *adult* 2/20
  • The Heart Mage by Kenya Wright *Adult sequel audiobook* 2/20
  • Night For Day by Roselle Lim *adult* 2/20
  • A Tempest Of Tea by Hafsah Faizal 2/20
  • Island Witch by Amanada Jayatissa *adult* 2/20
  • Takeover by Nana Malone *adult* 2/20
  • Snowglobe by Soyoung Park 2/27
  • The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest *Adult Companion* 2/27
  • Lore Of The Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana *adult* 2/27
  • Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury 2/27
  • The Partition Project by Saadia Faruqi *MG* 2/27
  • Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana 2/27
  • Return To Eden by Paco Roca; trans. By Andrea Rosenberg *adult* 2/27
  • Brooklyn by Tracy Brown *adult* 2/27
  • The Life Of The Qur’an by Mohamad Jebara *adult* 2/27
  • Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School By Tiffany Jewell 2/27
  • Kindling By Traci Chee 2/27
  • My Name Is Shingo: The Perfect Edition by Kazuo Umezz 2/27
  • Finally Heard by Kelly Yang *MG* 2/27
  • Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa *adult* 2/27
  • Memory Garden by Zohreh & Susie Ghahremani *PB* 2/27
  • The American Daughter by Maurice Carlos Ruffin *adult* 2/27
  • Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange *adult* 2/27
  • My Documents by Alejandro Zambra, trans. By Megan McDowell *adult* 2/27
  • I Run To Make My Heart Beat by Rachel Khan, art by Aude Massot *MG* 2/27
  • No Better Time by Sheila Williams *adult* 2/27
  • One Giant Leap by Thao Lam *PB* 2/27
  • Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan *adult* 2/27
  • An Autobiography Of Skin by Lakeisha Carr *adult* 2/27
Depends on how you look at it, really, lol.

That’s quite the list for the shortest month of the year but I’m here for this as well! Of these books, I’ve received ARCs for the following:

  • Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
  • Out Of Body by Nia Davenport
  • ASAP by Axie Oh *companion*
  • Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar *MG*
  • The Bodyguard Proposal by Soohk Kaur *adult re-release*
  • The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna *Sequel*
  • Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson
  • Sex, Lies And Sensibility by Nikki Payne *adult companion*
  • Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow *adult*
  • Night For Day by Roselle Lim *adult*
  • A Tempest Of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
  • Island Witch by Amanada Jayatissa *adult*
  • Snowglobe by Soyoung Park
  • The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest *Adult Companion*
  • Lore Of The Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana *adult*
  • Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana

Of these, I have read:

  • Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
  • Out Of Body by Nia Davenport
  • ASAP by Axie Oh *companion*
  • Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar *MG*
  • Currently Reading: The Bodyguard Proposal by Soohk Kaur *adult re-release*
And I’ve been enjoying my reads when life doesn’t get in the way of my reading!

Whew, this is quite the list! I can only imagine that I may have missed a book or few! If there are books by authors of color that should be added to this list, let me know either here or on social media where you can find me on Instagram @bookishgirlmagic (look out for lives, which is still sporadic but happens), Twitter (I refuse to call it a single letter) @bookishgrlmagic, Threads @bookishgirlmagic (I’m slowly increasing my posting on there) and Clubhouse @bookishgrlmagic where you can find me mostly in book centered clubs/rooms (mostly on Tuesdays and Fridays) to chat with me. Also let me know if there are any books that YOU are excited about! I wanna know! Oh and please subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already because it makes me feel like I’ve fallen into bookish love! And to those who are subscribed, you have my continued thanks, I really truly appreciate y’all! Sending y’all bookish love and wishing you happy reading always!

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I’m reader who has a fierce love for books written by authors of color & belief in the importance of supporting them! My mission is to amplify their voices and work so this generation and all the others after them will have literature that will reflect them.

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