Today, I’m diving into some Black Canadian authors you should add to your to-be-read piles for February and beyond!
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Poetry
Finish This Sentence by Leslie Roach
Burning Sugar by Cicely Belle Blain
Where the Baedeker Leads by James Yeku
Short Stories
Shut Up You’re Pretty by Tea Mutonji
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Literary Fiction
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe Onuobia
The Youth of God by Hassan Ghedi Santur
Brother by David Chariandy
Reproduction by Ian Williams
Young Adult
This Book Betrays My Brother by Kagiso Lesego Molope
Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield
Gutter Child by Jael Richardson
Romance
Ties that Tether, The Sweetest Remedy, and Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo
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