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Top 10 BIPOC books of 2025

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Books

1. Dark Star by Oliver Langmead

   • A drug addict detective living on an almost completely dark planet, where fire burns black and there's no sun, sets out to investigate the theft of one of three 'hearts', the only sources of light in the world. This is a brilliant, and brilliantly bleak, sci-fi concept, taking place in a murky, dark world where the poor become almost like ghosts.

2. (S)kin by Ibi Zoboi

   • Two teenage girls living in Brooklyn find they are connected by a dark secret. One is a Caribbean fire witch, trying to escape her oppressive mother, and the other is mixed heritage, dealing with an intense skin condition and secrets at home.

3. Rapunzella, or Don't Touch my Hair by Ella McLeod

   • A Black South London girl visits a fantasy land in her dreams, encountering a mysterious girl with magical hair, part of a community resisting an encroaching evil.

Additional Selected Titles

• Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose

  • Food magic, queer normative, angry revolution.

• A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

  • Cosy, cute, with a zombie rooster!

• Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

  • Monsters in space, queer AI, found family.

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