If you are a Black debut 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
African Town by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
January 18, 2022
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
February 1, 2022
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
You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
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
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
April 5, 2022
You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice by Minda Harts
May 3, 2022
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
May 17, 2022
Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual For Teens by Luvvie Jones
Perfect Score by Angelica Monai writing as A.M. Ellis
May 31, 2022
Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
Deep in Providence by Riss M. Neilson
Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe
June 11, 2022
That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street by Chris Clarkson
June 28, 2022
The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman
July 12, 2022
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
July 26, 2022
Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke
The Witchery by S. Isabelle
August 9, 2022
The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis
How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta
August 30, 2022
Seton Girls by Charlene Thomas
September 20, 2022
Until We Break by Matthew Dawkins
September 27, 2022
How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy
October 4, 2022
Monarch Rising by Harper Glenn
Looking For Grace by Pamela Varnado
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
October 25, 2022
The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal
November 15, 2022
Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins
November 22, 2022
Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse
November 29, 2022
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds