After Australia, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, et al.
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of … Read more
Category Archives: LGTBQ+
Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged … Read more
Spotlight – Tlotlo Tsamaase
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Read more
The Forever Sea, Joshua Phillip Johnson
The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical … Read more
The Forever Sea, Joshua Phillip Johnson
The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical … Read more
King and the Dragonflies, Kacen Callender
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature at the 71st Annual … Read more
Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The … Read more
Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
Little Badger’s debut novel, “Elatsoe”… is a young adult fantasy about a 17-year-old Lipan Apache girl who can awaken the … Read more
Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford
Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine–a mixed-blood Cherokee woman– and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s … Read more
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of … Read more
Depart, Depart!, Sim Kern
Depart, Depart! grapples with intersections of social justice and climate change, asking readers to consider how they’ll react when the … Read more
Stay and Fight, Madeline Ffitch
Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a … Read more
Lot: Stories, Bryan Washington
Few writers have done for their city what Washington has done for Houston, which is to say, to articulate how … Read more
Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh
A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Just magnificent. -Jenn Lyons, author of … Read more
Wilder Girls, Rory Power
From Hypable: Wilder Girls by Rory Power follows Hetty as she looks for her friend, braving a world outside of … Read more