If you are a Black author with a traditionally published young adult novel and you are missing from this list, please email info@melanininya.com.
Please note that release dates are subject to change.
January 5, 2021
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant
Roman and Jewel by Dana L. Davis
The Life I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
When You Look Like Us by Pamela Harris
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson
January 12, 2021
Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink
The Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon Richardson
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
January 19, 2021
Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall
January 26, 2021
Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
February 2, 2021
Muted by Tami Charles
Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson
This Book is Anti-Racist Journal by Tiffany M. Jewell
Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson
February 9, 2021
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
February 16, 2021
Reaper of Souls by Rena Barron
February 23, 2021
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett
Nubia: Real One by L. L. McKinney (Graphic Novel)
Like Home by Louisa Onomé
March 2, 2021
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo
March 9, 2021
Noelle: The Mean Girl (Flyy Girls #3) by Ashley Woodfolk
March 16, 2021
That Way Madness Lies: Fifteen of Shakespeare’s Most Notable Works Reimagined Edited by Dahlia Adler (Anthology)
A Queen of Gilded Horns by Amanda Joy
April 6, 2021
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
Oculta by Maya Motayne
April 13, 2021
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults) by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein
April 20, 2021
Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart
May 4, 2021
Hurricane Summer: A Novel by Asha Bromfield
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
May 11, 2021
Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass
May 18, 2021
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett
May 25, 2021
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
June 1, 2021
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
A Chorus Rises: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
June 8, 2021
The Marvelous by Claire Kann
Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat Edited by Cassandra Newbould
June 15, 2021
Don’t Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
June 22, 2021
Darling by K. Ancrum
Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon
June 29, 2021
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
July 6, 2021
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
July 13, 2021
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
The Right Side of Reckless by Whitney D. Grandison
Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise Edited by Laura Silverman
August 10, 2021
The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis
August 17, 2021
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko
(Me) Moth by Amber McBride
August 24, 2021
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
August 31, 2021
Flyy Girls Tobyn: The It Girl by Ashley Woodfolk
September 7, 2021
The Problem with the Other Side by Kwame Ivery
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow
The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
Battle of the Bands Edited by Lauren Gibaldi
September 14, 2021
Kneel by Candace Buford
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
September 21, 2021
Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
September 28, 2021
Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
For All Time by Shanna Miles
October 5, 2021
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
Why We Fly by Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal
October 19, 2021
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
October 26, 2021
Rest Easy by Warona Jolomba
November 2, 2021
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown
Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles
Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed Edited by Saraciea J. Fennell
November 23, 2021
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
December 7, 2021
Fools in Love Edited by Ashley Herring Blake & Rebecca Podos
The Upper World by Femi Fadugba