## Noble Warriors and Non-Binary Knights

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### Top 10 BIPOC Books of 2025

**A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna**  
Cosy, cute, found family, zombie rooster. My top BIPOC read of the year, and I blurbed the proof!  
  
**Red City by Marie Lu**  
Rival alchemists, one Chinese, one Indian. An incredible fantasy world with high stakes and a heart-wrenching romance.  
**(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi**  
A verse novel about Caribbean fire witches, family secrets, and two teenage girls trying to survive their inner nature.  
**The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones**  
An incredible indigenous historical vampire book, the writing is dense but impeccable.  
**Wicked Flavors by Azalea Crowley**  
An autistic doll collector strikes a supernatural deal with a mysterious antique dealer with a cane (both are also mixed heritage). Absolute carnage ensues.  
**Dulhaniyaa by Talia Bhatt**  
A Desi lesbian romance with a transfemme love interest. Dancing, romance and bonkers Bollywood vibes.  
**Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai**  
A queer Japanese boy finds a century old diary of a woman who sings for ghosts. Beautiful Madam Butterfly retelling.  
**Katabasis by R.F. Kuang**  
Two PhD students, one Chinese, travel to academic hell to find their supervisor. It’s basically one long in-joke/nod to academia, which I enjoyed, but definitely not for everyone!  
**Here to Slay by Radhika Sanghani**  
Buffy but with sapphic British-Indian demon slayers. SO fun.  
**Marigold Mind Laundry by Junguen Yun**  
A bittersweet, melancholy Korean fantasy about a lonely immortal woman opening a laundry to wash away people’s bad memories, finding a new family along the way.

Happy New Year everyone!

### Hi folks!  
The year is almost up, here’s my last bookish roundup! All books by BIPOC authors with BIPOC MCs.

### Current Reads  
**Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose**  
Food magic, queer normative, angry revolution, eat the rich!!  
**A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna**  
  
**Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove**  
  
**Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai**  
  
**The Saint of Heartbreak by Morgan Dante**  
  
They’ll survive!  
**Self Made Boys by Anne-Marie McLemore**

### Upcoming Reads  
**Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu**  
**Song of Silver Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao**  
**A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna**  
Thanks all folks!  
Be excellent to each other,  
Disco

Diverse Discoveries: a mix of POC and AAPI books to check out!