In our fifth year of putting together a monthly list of the best diverse book releases, we’re so grateful for all of you who have stuck around through the years. It’s surreal to be working on our fifth archive page, but we’re so proud of being able to give this list to you year after year. If you are newer here, make sure to check out previous years archive pages! Looking back now it’s so fun to see trends in our journey together and in publishing through these pages. I hope you’ll find something that’s perfect for you!
As always, all books you find on Bookish Brews, especially in these pages, are books by writers from systematically marginalized backgrounds. The majority of which are Global Majority writers. Enjoy the archives:
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January
February
It’s about time roommates Alejandro and Kenny get married. Or at least, that’s what all their close friends and family think when they announce their engagement. The kicker? The two are faking their whole relationship so Alejandro can get a green card. But if Han was going to marry anyone, it would be his ride or die since second grade.
🧭 Immigrant Experience 📘 Standalone 🌼 Self Discovery 🎭 Dramatic
March
A powerful and wrenchingly intimate memoir about the formidable challenge of raising a family separated by prison walls and how we can fight back against a broken byzantine system.
🌱 Growth 🌳 Family Focused 🌼 Self Discovery 📓 Memoir
April
Noon lives with her mother in the wreckage of a hurricane in a town called Mercy. But when people start disappearing, the harbormaster demands she capture the creature that’s drowning the residents as a new storm approaches the harbor.
May
When the founder of a Vietnamese sandwich chain, Duc Tran, decides to retire, he devises a plan to make his five estranged children work for their inheritance. Each of his daughters must must revitalize an old shop in Little Saigons across America, within one year. But if his son gets married first, everything goes to him.
🌳 Family Focused 🍜 Food Focused
❤️🩹 Trauma and Healing 📘 Standalone
June
Jamie has her entire senior year planned out until her boyfriend comes back from summer away asking to break up. Determined to get him back, Jamie starts fake dating a younger TikTok dancer, Axel.
🎂 Coming of Age 🍃 Easy Reading ✨ Low Conflict 😏 Sex Positive
July
We Can Never Leave by H. E. Edgmon
Every day, inhuman creatures are waking up with no memory of who they are or where they came from–and the Caravan exists to help them. The traveling community has acclimated to this new existence by finding refuge in each other. Until one day, five teens wake up to find the community has vanished around them.
🗺️ Adventure 🌱 Character Growth 👾 Monsters 💫 Atmospheric
August
Inception meets Indiana Jones in this propulsive fungal science fantasy following a headstrong academic and her equally stubborn bodyguard as they unearth an ancient secret that rocks the foundations of their society—and challenges their unspoken love for one another.
💫 Atmospheric 📖 Couldn’t Put It Down 🪄 Unique Magic 🥀 Flawed Characters
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