25 BIPOC books in 2025

kitaface's profile picture kitaface Host

68 participants (769 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 25 books by BIPOC authors featuring BIPOC characters in 2025.

Challenge Books

All books added
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

10 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 1979

fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

Chanel Miller

160 pages • digital • 2024

fiction contemporary middle grade emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
My Remarkable Journey by Katherine G. Johnson

My Remarkable Journey

Katherine G. Johnson

400 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction autobiography history memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

A Tempest of Tea

Blood and Tea #1

Hafsah Faizal

338 pages • digital • 2024

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Zeal by Morgan Jerkins

Zeal

Morgan Jerkins

416 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction historical literary race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

Hammajang Luck

Makana Yamamoto

384 pages • digital • 2024

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

White Smoke

Tiffany D. Jackson

400 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction horror thriller young adult dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

13 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones

Check, Please! #3-4

Ngozi Ukazu

352 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey

Check, Please! #1-2

Ngozi Ukazu

288 pages • digital • 2018

fiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ romance young adult funny lighthearted fast-paced