BIPOC Fiction
By Boneshaker Books
By Boneshaker Books
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
$14.95 $13.75Baldwin's characters come alive with each page of this book. This is a deep and harrowing look into the racist systems of our society told through the stories of young black stories and family ties. Read the original that led to an Academy Award-winning Jenkins film. --Rebecca
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
$16.99 $15.63Set in a world where geological catastrophes are the norm, adds a class of people who can telekinetically control earth ("orogenes"), and asks what kind of society would form. The book follows Essun, a hidden orogene, as she looks for her missing children in the wake of a continental split. Although the setting is fantastic, the questions that the book asks about oppression and survival are very real. --Moli
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
$17.99 $16.55This is maybe the book that I have cried the most while reading. In Liu's namesake short story within the collection, he brings to life the tensions of a young mixed race child pushing away his culture and Chinese mother. Sprinked with magic realism and twinges of science fiction, this will tug at your heartstrings. P.S. All my friends who I've recommended it to have also cried to this. --Rebecca
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
Kai Cheng Thom
$20.00Magical realism memoir of a Canadian trans girl gang whose turning point involves the murder of a cop. I cannot recommend this book enough!! I feel like conversations often stall on whether violence is justified, but Kai Cheng Thom goes beyond the question to examine the cost of living under violence and reacting with violence -- and she makes the read so much fun. --Moli
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
$9.99 $9.19A gorgeous mixtape of a YA novel by local author Juanada Petrus (Free Black Dirt), effortlessly combining Black queer coming-of-age, a cancer story, prison abolition, and Whitney Houston. If nothing else, this book will probably make you want to read your astrological natal chart! --Moli