is growing from my fingers.

You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson: a really sweet wlw high school YA romance, bi MC with anxiety

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus: another wlw YA book, deals with a lot of important issues like illness, homophobic parents and Black culture in and outside of the US, incredibly poetic and beautifully written

An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon - sci fi/fantasy adult dystopia, autistic gnc Black MC, deals with societal inequality

The Color Purple - Alice Walker: a modern classic, follows the life of a Black woman in the south between the world wars

Running With Lions - Julian Winters: mlm YA interracial romance, about a group of boys in summer camp, deals with topics such as islamophobia and body image, a real feel good summer book :)

Giovanni‘s Room - James Baldwin: another modern classic, set in 1950‘s Paris