BNP Books for 2020: What We’re Reading

What’s good 2020???!! We’re moving into a new year and the start of a new decade! The time of reading lists for the brand new year. Now, we’re not going to say we have the best reading lists out there, but if you’re looking for books across the spectrum of genre, character, and writer’s background, you know we got you. We prefer our books filled with complex characters, with folks included from across identities and ethnicities. We like our non-fiction insightful and challenging. We read poetry, essays, fiction, graphic novels…you name it. We’re here for authors who are under-represented in the mainstream. We’re here for authors that also look like us, talk like us, and have some shared cultural reflections. We’re here for the page-turners, and the books we can’t put down. We’re here for the books that make us feel something. Here are some of the books we’re hitting pre-order on for 2020. The To-Be-Read List never gets shorter, but it should always get better.

From Leslie’s List Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray) Available February 2020

Ireland’s first book in this setting, Dread Nation, was a hit with me. The story of Jane leaving Miss Preston’s Attendant school outside of Baltimore and ending up “out west” was fast, engaging, and left me wanting more. Well, more is coming. In Deathless Divide, Jane, and friend Kate, leave the ruins of Summerland to travel to California, looking for Jane’s momma. I’m looking forward to watching Jane embrace her truth whi…