I independently selected these books because I love them, and hope you will too. Love, Camesha has affiliate relationships, so I may get a commission if you purchase something through my links. Items are sold by the retailer, not Love, Camesha.

January

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

The Blacker the Berry

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Talents

Girl Gurl Grrrl

The Wedding Party

Such A Fun Age

February

Fumbled

They Can’t Kill Us All

Just Mercy

The Wedding Date

The Death of Vivek Oji

Party of Two

Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick

March

Ties That Tehter

When No One Is Watching

Transcendent Kingdom

Jazz

The City We Became

April

Rock My Soul

The Girl with the Louding Voice

His Only Wife

The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd

Deacon King Kong

May

Memorial Drive

The Son of Mr. Suleman

The Boyfriend Project

All About Love

The Dating Plan

Black Buck

Homegoing

Begin Again

Friends and Strangers

June

Milk Blood Heat

Just As I Am

The Beauty in Breaking

Seven Days in June

Afterschocks

Malibu Rising

Black Girl, Call Home

Hurricane Summer

Sister Outsider

July

Somebody’s Daughter

How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

This Close to Okay

The Man Who Lived Underground

When You Were Everything

Honey Girl

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

How the Word is Passed

August

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Dear Miss Metropolitan

The Devil You Know

Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come

Buy Yourself the Fu-king Lilies

One to Watch

September

The Joy Luck Club

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

One Last Stop

Pachinko

October

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes

In Every Mirror She’s Black

Island Queen

She Memes Well

Libertie

November

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Will

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Dawn

December

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

Grown

The Darkest Child

Can’t Hurt Me

Monday’s Not Coming

Blackout

Waiting For the Waters to Rise

Rabbit