Celebrating Black Excellence & Joy

This month's featured list is inspired by L. L. McKinney's Tor.com article, "The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain." McKinney writes, "We know that for every 'issue' book, we need at least five more where we can go on adventures, fall in love, solve mysteries, be heroes, do everyday things like everyone else. Black readers need to see themselves in narratives outside of racism, slavery, Jim Crow, police brutality. As do non-Black readers." This list is far from exhaustive but features some of our favorite titles.