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 4, 2022
The Chosen Ones by Echo Brown
One True Loves by Elise Bryant
The Kindred by Alechia Dow
African Town by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
January 11, 2022
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L. Browne
Ashes of Gold by J. Elle
The Monarchs by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige
Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin
January 18, 2022
Shattered Midnight by Dhonielle Clayton
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between Edited by Laura Silverman
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
January 25, 2022
Mister Miracle: The Great Escape by Varian Johnson & Daniel Isles (Graphic Novel)
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life by Marilyn Nelson
February 1, 2022
Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee
And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems by Erica Martin
February 8, 2022
Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
February 15, 2022
Reclaim The Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space Edited by Zoraida Córdova
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
February 22, 2022
Daughters of a Dead Empire by Carolyn Tara O’Neil
March 1, 2022
The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah
Every Variable Of Us by Charles A. Bush
The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra
Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys & Andrew Weiner, Illustrated by Brittney Williams (Graphic Novel)
Turning by Joy L. Smith
March 8, 2022
Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye
March 15, 2022
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
March 22, 2022
Okoye To The People: A Black Panther Novel by Ibi Zoboi, Illustrated by Noa Denmon
March 29, 2022
Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson
April 5, 2022
Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson
Omens Bite by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice by Minda Harts
Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
May 3, 2022
Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo, Illustrated by Andrea Pippins
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
May 10, 2022
Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee
May 17, 2022
How to Live Without You by Sarah Everett
Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual For Teens by Luvvie Jones
Perfect Score by Angelica Monai writing as A.M. Ellis
May 24, 2022
Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta
May 31, 2022
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
Deep in Providence by Riss M. Neilson
Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe
June 7, 2022
Zyla & Kai by Kristina Forest
Empress Crowned in Red by Ciannon Smart
June 11, 2022
That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street by Chris Clarkson
June 21, 2022
This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron
We Weren’t Looking To Be Found by Stephanie Kuehn
June 28, 2022
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman
July 26, 2022
Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke
The Witchery by S. Isabelle
Twice as Perfect by Louisa Onomé
August 9, 2022
The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis
How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta
Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury
August 30, 2022
Seton Girls by Charlene Thomas
September 6, 2022
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories Edited by Yamile Saied Méndez (Author) Amparo Ortiz
September 20, 2022
Eternally Yours Edited by Patrice Caldwell
Until We Break by Matthew Dawkins
The Getaway by Lamar Giles
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
September 27, 2022
Soul of the Deep by Natasha Bowen
How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith & Derrick Barnes, Illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama by Ashley Woodfolk
October 4, 2022
Monarch Rising by Harper Glenn
October 11, 2022
Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton
Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph and Porsche Landon
October 25, 2022
The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal
November 8, 2022
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
November 15, 2022
Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins
November 22, 2022
At Midnight Edited by Dahlia Adler
Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse
November 29, 2022
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Release Date TBD
The Grimoire of Grave Fates edited by Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert
Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell
Property of No State by George M. Johnson
Monster by Jessica Lewis
You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovic