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January Guide
Happy New Year!While it’s many people’s first instinct to create numerical goals for themselves at the start of a new year, it’s important to remember that goals can come in various forms and styles. Our ongoing Refresh Your Shelf guide this month is perfectly representative of that fact, with alternative goals that might help you explore new literary landscapes.Today we're highlighting the goal of reading books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) authors. It's important to read widely, and exploring works by authors with different backgrounds and experiences than our own opens us to new perspectives. BIPOC books center the experiences of people of color, bringing vital voices and stories that have historically been underrepresented in mainstream literature.Here are four books by authors of color that you can read to expand your worldview and enrich your reading habits, as well as complete one of the nine reading resolutions on our handy bingo card.Offtrack” by Esha Patel (kindly sponsored by HarperCollins Publishers)Sparks fly between a legacy driver and F1's first woman driver in this Formula One meets “The Hating Game” rivals to lovers romance. Diana has worked too hard to be just a pretty face for this hypermasculine sport, but Diego refuses to take any rookie seriously, let alone a woman. When the chemistry between the two of them becomes undeniable, they must decide where their loyalties lie–with the championship, or with each other.Madness” by Antonia Hylton (kindly sponsored by Grand Central Publishing)This book tells the 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums. A captivating and heartbreaking meditation on the treatment of Black people’s bodies and minds from the legacy of slavery to the current mental health care system. Through investigative research and archival documents, Hylton brings readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum, blending the tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville.In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria MachadoWritten in vignettes with narrative horror story tropes and devices, this memoir details abuse within a queer relationship. Machado presents a revolutionary dissection of the cultural representations of psychological abuse, while confronting how her experiences shaped the person she became. She widens the view of lesbian relationships with explorations of history, employing essayistic styles and a critical eye.So Let them Burn” by Kamilah ColeThis Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a heroine blessed by gods who must choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland. When Faron’s older sister forms a bond with an enemy dragon, and the only way to break that bond is to kill her sister, Faron must make an impossible choice that will change the fate of the world. Whip-smart and immersive, this queer young adult fantasy novel is perfect for fans of “Iron Widow” and “The Priory of the Orange Tree”.

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