#20BooksByBlackFolx Challenge 2023 - hosted by melanatedreader

#16 #20BooksbyBlackFolx
This challenge is a reading challenge hosted by @Melanatedreader on all platforms… this one is inclusive to all Black writers! This includes Women, Men, and Non-Binary persons! Please use the hashtag in all posts online! 
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A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

A Song Below Water

A Song Below Water #1

Bethany C. Morrow

9 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced
Verity and the Forbidden Suitor by J.J. McAvoy

Verity and the Forbidden Suitor

The DuBells Series #2

J.J. McAvoy

385 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical romance emotional medium-paced
We Are Bone and Earth by Esi Edugyan

We Are Bone and Earth

A Point in Time #4

Esi Edugyan

35 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical short stories adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Memorial by Bryan Washington

Memorial

Bryan Washington

8 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women by Harold Green III

Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women

Harold Green III

144 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction poetry race emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural & Multiracial Identities by Ismée Williams, Rebecca Balcárcel

Boundless: 20 Voices Celebrating Multicultural & Multiracial Identities

Ismée Williams, Rebecca Balcárcel

360 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Talia Hibbert

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Oreo by Fran Ross

Oreo

Fran Ross

8 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction classics race challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne

Pride and Protest

Nikki Payne

401 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance emotional funny medium-paced
In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas

9 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced