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Radiant Legacies

Must-read fiction for Black History Month

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  • After siblings Coleman and June are torn apart by a silver-mining magnate at the Mexican border, they must navigate shipwrecks, guerrilla warfare, and a brutal landscape to find their way back to each other. Nathan Harris delivers a "painful,…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025 — Fiction HARRIS,N
  • After walking away from her hit podcast and a "good on paper" boyfriend, Kiki Banjo thinks her life is in flux—until her legendary first love returns from Hollywood to reclaim his place in her orbit. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the London…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — Romance BABALOLA,B
  • When a luxury Antarctic cruise ends in a shipwreck, a Black film scout finds herself stranded on a remote island with a group of wealthy, white survivors whose prejudices are as cold as the landscape. In this biting social satire blended with…
    Book, 2025New York : Grove Press, 2025 — Fiction BARRY,Q
  • A creatively blocked Black painter finds an unlikely muse in a white ex-Jesuit priest. As their relationship unfolds over a hazy Manhattan summer, they must navigate the friction between high art, religious faith, and the messy reality of physical…
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025 — Fiction TAYLOR,B
  • In the vibrant, salt-aired streets of Lagos, the Falodun women have become experts at surviving abandonment—until Eniiyi falls for a man who shares a mysterious connection to her family's dark past. Part psychological mystery and part literary…
    Book, 2025New York : Doubleday, 2025 — Fiction BRAITHWAITE,O
  • What’s more dangerous than a family power struggle? Fake-dating the man who broke your heart five years ago. This is a fun and tender celebration of Black queer joy, family complications, and the realization that sometimes the person who knows you…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2025 — Romance WINTERS,J
  • Junie is a poetry-loving dreamer who believes her friendship with the plantation owner's daughter will protect her—until a marriage pact threatens to tear her from her family forever. Guided by her sister’s restless spirit and a hidden box of…
    Book, 2025New York : Ballantine Books, [2025] — Fiction ECKSTINE,E
  • Part church-pew drama and part psychological thriller, "Dominion" introduces a world where the "First Lady" is medicated, the Reverend is a predator, and the star quarterback is a ticking time bomb. This scorcher of a debut is an unflinching look at…
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025 — Fiction CITCHENS,A
  • A captive princess and a rebel king forge a dangerous alliance. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros, this standalone epic blends brutal violence with a high-heat romance that refuses to take its foot off the gas.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — Science Fiction DAVENPORT,N