2017 Books Written by Authors of Color

by The Book Voyagers - 8:48 PM

Hello!!! Today I bring another great list of books. You know how much I love making them and I enjoy doing them! This one is a BIG list of books publishing in 2017 written by authors of color. The book might not have a person of color as the main character but the book is by a POC. I hope this list is of help to someone and gets to add the all to their TBRs. Support authors of color!!!

Middle Grade

✿ The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi | Salaam Reads

✿ Amina's Voice by Hena Khan | Salaam Reads

✿ The Emperor's Riddle by Kat Zhang | Aladdin

✿ My Life as an Ice-Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi | Dutton

✿ Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh | HarperCollins

✿ Love Sugar Magic by Anna Meriano | HarperCollins

✿ Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly | HarperCollins

✿ Weaving a Net is Better Than Praying for Fish by Ki-Wing Merlin | HarperCollins

✿ Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson | HMH Books for Young Readers

The Sweetest Sound by Sherri Winston | Little, Brown and Company ✿

The Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim | Scholastic Press ✿

Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen by Debbi Michiko Florence | Macmillan ✿

Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami | Tu Books ✿
Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres | Little, Brown ✿
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire by Susan Tan | Roaring Brook Press ✿
One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson | Atheneum ✿
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya | Viking ✿
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword by Henry Lien | Razorbill ✿

✿ The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley | Scholastic Press

✿ Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai | S&S
✿ Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar | Lee & Low/Tu Books
✿ Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia | Amistad
✿ Patina (Track #2) by Jason Reynolds | Atheneum
✿ Danny Blackgoat, Dangerous Passage by Tim Tingle | 7th Generation

Young Adult

✿ History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera | Soho Teen
✿ Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones | Thomas Dunne
✿ Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza | Razorbill
✿ American Street by Ibi Zoboi | HarperCollins
✿ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | HarperCollins
✿ The Ship Beyond Time (The Girl From Everywhere #2) by Heidi Heilig | HarperCollins
✿ The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian | HarperCollins
✿ That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Karim | HarperCollins
✿ The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera | Simon & Schuster
✿ The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | HMH

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid | Harlequin Teen ✿

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate | Amulet Books ✿

This Promise I Will Keep by Aisha Saeed | Penguin ✿

I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo | Macmillan ✿

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon | Simon Pulse ✿

Want by Cindy Pon | Simon Pulse ✿

Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman | Simon Pulse ✿

The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana | Razorbill ✿

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert | Little, Brown and Company ✿

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera | HarperCollins ✿

✿ Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore | Feiwel & Friends
✿ You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins | Macmillan
✿ Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali | Salaam Reads
✿ The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco | Sourcebooks Fire

✿ Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao | Philomel Books
✿ Dear Martin by Nic Stone | Crown Books for Young Readers
✿ I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez | Penguin Random House
✿ Mirage by Somaiya Daud | Faltiron Books
✿ Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh | Lee & Low Books/Tu Books
✿ Keeping the Distance by Clarisse David

A Crown of Wishes (The Star-Touched Queen #2) by Roshani Chokshi | St. Martin's Griffin ✿

Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson | Bloomsbury ✿

Circle Unbroken (Brooklyn Brujas #2) by Zoraida Córdova | Sourcebooks Fire✿

Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani | First Second ✿

Shadowhouse Fall (Shadowshaper #2) by Daniel José Older | Scholastic Press ✿

Girl on the Verge by Pintip Dunn | Kensington ✿

Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds | Marvel Press ✿

Into the Black (Beyond the Red #2) by Ava Jae | Sky Pony Press ✿

✿ Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa de la Cruz | GP Putnam's Sons

✿ Warcross by Marie Lu | GP Putnam's Sons

✿ Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh | GP Putnam's Sons

✿ Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor | Penguin Books

✿ The November Girl by Lydia Kang | Entangled Publishing
✿ Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi | Razorbill
✿ Not Your Villain (Not Your Sidekick #2) by CB Lee | Interlude Press
✿ The Speaker (The Sea of Ink and Gold #2) by Traci Chee | GP Putnam's Sons
✿ Chainbreaker (Timekeeper #2) by Tara Sim | Sky Pony Press

Solo by Kwame Alexander | Blink ✿

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by FC Yee | Abrams ✿

Along the Indigo by Elsie Chapman | Abrams ✿

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo | Dutton ✿
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, illustraded by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson | Tu Books ✿
After the Fall by Kate Hart | Macmillan ✿

Adult

✿ The Art of Shifting Gears by Chi Yu Rodriguez | Anvil Publishing

✿ Sounds Like Summer by Six de los Reyes | Anvil Publishing

✿ Midnights in Bali by Carla de Guzman | Anvil Publishing

✿ Simply Joei by Clare Elisabeth Marquez | Anvil Publishing
✿ Chasing Mr. Prefect by Katt Briones | Anvil Publishing

✿ Bucket List To Love by C.P. Santi | Spark Books

✿ All That Glitters by Ines Bautista-Yao | Spark Books

✿ Serenade by Claire Du | Spark Books
✿ First to Fall by Farrah F. Polestico | Spark Books

✿ Don't Tell my Mother by Brigitte Bautista

Clean Breaks by Ruby Lang | Crimson Romance ✿

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty | Harper Voyager ✿

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Thomas Dunne Books ✿

Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran | GP Putnam's Sons ✿

A Place I Belong by Cynthia Kadohata | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books ✿

Home (Binti #2) by Nnedi Okorafor | Tor.com ✿

Love Will Always Remember by Tracey Livesay | Avon Impulse ✿

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole | Kensington ✿

Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai | Avon ✿

✿ Delicious Satisfaction by Sabrina Sol | Entangled Publishing

✿ Walking on Knives by Maya Chhabra | Less Than Three Press
✿ Flowers of Luna by Jennifer Linsky
✿ Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas
✿ Heroine Worship (Heroine Complex #2) by Sarah Kuhn | DAW
✿ The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Grove Press
✿ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | Penguin Press
✿ House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen #2) by Aliette de Bodard | Ace
✿ The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth #3) by NK Jemisin | Orbit

Battle Hill Bolero (Bone Street Rumba #3) by Daniel José Older | Roc ✿

Monstress, Vol. 2 by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda | Image Comics ✿
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie | Little, Brown and Company ✿
The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden | Harper Voyager ✿
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones | Tor.com ✿
The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East by Diane Glancy, Linda Rodriguez, editors | BkMk Press ✿