45 New & Forthcoming Indie Press Books by BIPOC Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Fiction
- Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman (AK Press)
- False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K’Wan (Akashic Books)
- Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago Books)
- Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Catapult)
- The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Catapult)
- Cecilia by K-Ming Chang (Coffee House Press)
- Fog & Car by Eugene Lim (Coffee House Press)
- We’re Safe When We’re Alone by Nghiem Tran (Coffee House Press)
- A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Counterpoint Press)
- Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, translated by Heather Houde (Feminist Press)
- The Default World by Naomi Kanakia (Feminist Press)
- The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel (Feminist Press)
- I’ll Give You a Reason by Annell López (Feminist Press)
- Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley (Feminist Press)
- Outcaste by Sheila James (Goose Lane Editions)
- Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (House of Anansi Press)
- Dad, I Miss You by Nadia Sammurtok, illustrated by Simji Park (Inhabit Media)
- Secrets of the Snakestone by Pia DasGupta (Nosy Crow)
- The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (Tin House)
- Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House)
- The World With Its Mouth Open: Stories by Zahid Rafiq (Tin House)
- I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall (Soft Skull Press)
Non-Fiction
- RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D and Kathy Lopez (Akashic Books)
- All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee (Catapult)
- My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents by Jennifer Neal (Catapult)
- Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant’s Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe by Deja Vu Prem (Catapult)
- Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco (Coffee House Press)
- Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha LaPointe (Counterpoint Press)
- Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience by Alpha Nkuranga (Goose Lane Editions)
- Jinny Yu (At Once/À La Fois) by Jinny Yu (Goose Lane Editions)
- Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross (LittlePuss Press)
- Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions)
- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions)
- Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull Press)
- The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa (Tin House)
- Black Meme: The History of the Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso Books)
Poetry
- i heard a crow before i was born by Jules Delorme (Goose Lane Editions)
- We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu (Haymarket Books)
- A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks (Haymarket Books)
- […] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
Comics
- A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Lost at Windy River by Jillian Dolan, Trina Rathgeber and Alina Pete (Orca Books)