Thursday, March 02, 2017

Diverse Books Out February 2017

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Hello and welcome to the February round up of diverse releases! Let me know if any of these have bad rep or if there are any books that I missed. We want this list to be as complete and accurate as possible while also making sure it doesn’t feature any books with bad rep. We will also be pointing out the books we know for sure are #ownvoices.

 

1. A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstorm

Release Date: February 7th

Goodreads | Buy

Interracial romance + deals with mental health.

 

2. Wintersong by S.Jae Jones

Release Date: Feb 7th

Goodreads | Buy

Korean-American author

 

3. Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

Release Date: Feb 7th

Goodreads | Buy

Filipino-American author + not-white main characters as cannon

 

4. At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson

Release Date: Feb 7th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices gay MC

 

5. American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Release Date: Feb 14th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices. Immigration story. Haitian MC.

 

6. We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

Release Date: Feb 14th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices. A non-het MC. An important character who is Latinx & Bi.

 

7. Ones and Zeroes by Dan Wells

Release Date: Feb 14th

Goodreads | Buy

Diverse Cast (also POCs on cover!!)

 

8. Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

Release Date: Feb 14th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices African-American MC

 

9. Ronit & Jamil by Pamela L. Laskin

Release Date: Feb 21st

Goodreads | Buy

Interracial romance b/w an Israeli girl and Palestinian boy

 

10. Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

Release Date: Feb 21st

Goodreads | Buy

African-American MC + has a cannon ace character

 

11. The Education of Margot Sanchez by Liliam Riveria

Release Date: Feb 21st

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices. Puerto Rican-American MC.

 

12. A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

Release Date: Feb 21st

Goodreads | Buy

Bi main character

 

13. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Release Date: Feb 28th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices. African-American MC

 

14. The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

Release Date: Feb 28th

Goodreads | Buy

#ownvoices. MC is biracial (part Chinese).

 

15. Rebels like Us by Liz Reinhardt

Release Date: Feb 28th

Goodreads | Buy

African-American MC

 

16. 10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac

Release Date: Feb 28th

Goodreads | Buy

non-het MC with anxiety.

 

Books with problematic rep

Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas (link is to a review for book 1 that goes into some detail about how a disability is done in the book.)

Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen (I did review this one too but the review I’ve linked to is not mine)

Go forth and buy ALL THE BOOKS!! Also, see you soon with other fun things!

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6 Responses to “Diverse Books Out February 2017”

  1. Valerie

    YES I WILL BUY ALL THESE BOOKS. YES. AND in general I am MORE EXCITED TO READ THESE AS WELL. I don’t even know where to start, I just want to flail flail and flail about all of these even though I haven’t read them YET

  2. Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight

    I have read a few of these- but want to read ALL of them! The Hate U Give was incredible, and Wintersong was really good, too! I NEED to read so many of these- I think all of them are on my TBR but some of them are extra-high priority. I have a lot of reading to do! 😀 Great list, love!