The Buzziest Books of February | 2022
03 Feb 2022
The Buzziest Books of February | 2022
The month of February is a great time for readers with a host of exciting new releases from bestselling African American authors. There are so many page-turning novels that will captivate you from cover to cover this month. If you want to know what new books everyone will be talking about, here are our choices for the most anticipated books of February. Happy reading!
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
by Kristen R. Lee
Release Date: February 1, 2022
A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embrace this activist-centered contemporary novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of attending an elite university with a disturbing racist history, which may not be as distant as it seems.
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Cherish Farrah
by Bethany C. Morrow
Release Date: February 8, 2022
From bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow comes a new adult social horror novel in the vein of Get Out meets My Sister, the Serial Killer, about Farrah, a young, calculating Black girl who manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend’s white, wealthy, adoptive family but soon suspects she may not be the only one with ulterior motives…
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Redwood and Wildfire
by Andrea Hairston
Release Date: February 1, 2022
At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan’s power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure.
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Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Release Date: February 1, 2022
n this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names, can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.
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Carolina Built
by Kianna Alexander
Release Date: February 22, 2022
A vivid and moving novel based on the incredible life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary—a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina. Moving and inspiring, Josephine Leary’s untold story speaks to the part of us that dares to dream bigger, tear down whatever stands in our way, and build something better for the loved ones we leave behind.
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Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy Book 2)
by Marlon James
Release Date: February 15, 2022
“This second volume in a projected trilogy set in a boldly imagined, opulently apportioned ancient Africa shows that the Booker Prize–winning novelist is building something deeper and more profoundly innovative within the swords-and-sorcery genre… witty, richly textured, and musically captivating…” —Kirkus Reviews
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