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Must- Read Books by BIPOC Authors to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Here's a list of new books by BIPOC authors to read this Summer! From fantasy to contemporary to romance, there's a book for every reader on this list! Celebrate summer by participating in ARC, our Adult Reading Challenge! Complete activities to earn badges along the way. Step 1: Sign up on Beanstack (pickeringlibrary.beanstack.org) and look for the challenge called, "Adult Reading Challenge" or visit any Library location for a paper Adult Reading Challenge BINGO card. Step 2: Read books and complete the activities for a chance to win prizes! Participants will be entered into a prize draw at the end of the summer.

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  • When Helen's book is set to be turned into a TV series she jumps at the opportunity to move to LA and work in the writing room. But she’s shocked to see Grant, someone she hasn’t seen in thirteen years in her writing room, for her book,…
    BookNew York : Avon Books, 2024. — FIC Kuang
  • This one is a second-chance romance between a Hollywood director and his production assistant.
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — FIC Ariel
  • The Kiss Countdown follows Amerie and Vincent— an event planner and astronaut who start fake dating for their own reasons that are beneficial to them. Amerie is struggling to get her business back together among other things and Vincent…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — FIC Easto
  • This is a swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of social media—where what you see might not be all you get.
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. — FIC Obuob
  • Four friends are opening a bookstore together, but before the store opens they all face a few setbacks in their lives that have them leaning on each other and the plans they made. A great book about the power of friendships.
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2024.
  • A “wise, funny, irresistible” debut novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the author of the internationally bestselling story collection Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad. In Nigerian families,…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperVia, 2024. — FIC Kuku
  • A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth. A debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, 2024. — FIC Robin
  • From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, 2024. — FIC Cole
  • From the bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice comes a follow-up novel that reunites readers with Adunni and Tia, who learns of a secret that her mother had hidden for decades.
    Book[New York] : Dutton, 2024. — FIC Dare
  • Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, 2024.