ℕ ,!2021 is starting pretty good, with a handful of cool books. As always, you can check under the

ℕ , !2021 is starting pretty good, with a handful of cool books. As always, you can check under the cut for more on each!The Awakening of Malcom X by Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson is a fictional but still based on fact account of Malcom X’s life, written in part by his daughter. I think this is going to be a really important book, and one that’s also going to be really cool to read. Black history is still overlooked when you’re discussing anything beyond slavery and jazz, so I’m pretty pumped for seeing more of it in books!Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire is the newest book in the Wayward Children series. This is one of the “portal” books, which are usually kind of like prequels, but the main character here is actually not one we’ve met yet! I’m not even slightly a horse person (we can save that rant for another day) but I’m too invested not to read it, and too trusting of McGuire to think I won’t like it anyway.Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink hits on that overlooked black history again! Truly blessed to have 2 great black historical YAs in the same month. This one centers of the Greenwood Massacre, something that I’m always surprised that people don’t know about- or, well, more surprised that we’ve managed not to be taught about it in American History. I’m looking forward to getting more details than I already know and being able to push this into people’s hands!You Have a Match by Emma Lord has summer camp vibes- which we’ll probably be begging for in all that cold. As you may already know, I love a good summer camp story. I also love a story about sibling relationships, so how can I miss this one about finding a sibling you didn’t know you had? No, this isn’t the Parent Trap, it’s a genealogy test story of a secret sister given up for adoption.Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate and translated by David Bowles is a classic queer story and a classic vampire story, that’s just now getting translated into English! I try to read translated lit anyway, and this reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England sounds fantastic, and like a great lens to view Latin culture in the 90s.The Forever Sea by Joshua Philip Johnson is an epic fantasy story of riding ships on endless grass fields. I mean- what a gorgeous aesthetic, right? Nearly as gorgeous as the cover. This is also a quest story, a family story, and seems to be LGBT!Wings of Ebony by J. Elle is an urban fantasy story that sounds kind of like a Black, political Percy Jackson. When her mother dies, main character Rue is whisked off to live with her absent father, and discovers she is a half-god and a magic wielder. But she can’t quite dis-engage with her real life, and the trouble brewing for her people there.Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibanez follows the story of Catalina directly after the events of Woven in Moonlight. Though it does continue the story by showing us what becomes of Catalina, it’s a companion, not a sequel, so even if you haven’t read the lush, political Woven in Moonlight, you can still dive into this one! Though, you’d be doing yourself a favor by picking up that first one anyway. -- source link

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