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 7, 2025
The Mirror World by Femi Fadugba
Togetha by Keith F. Miller, Jr.
Bemused by Farrah Rochon
King: A Life (Adapted for Young Adults) by Jonathan Eig with Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
January 14, 2025
All the Love Under the Vast Sky Edited by Kip Wilson (Featuring short stories by Mariama J. Lockington and Charles Waters)
Brewed with Love by Shelly Page
The Queen’s Spade by Sarah Raugley
January 21, 2025
Love on Paper by Danielle Parker
January 28, 2025
The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears
February 4, 2025
This Ends in Embers by Kamilah Cole
Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours
Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology Edited by Vania Stoyanova & Rosiee Thor (including a short story by Julian Winters)
February 11, 2025
(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi
February 25, 2025
Knucklehead: Poems by Tony Keith, Jr.
Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change by Jamia Wilson
Orisha Volume 1: With Great Power by Huzayfa Umar with Saturday AM
March 4, 2025
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights Edited by Ashley Hope Pérez (featuring a piece by Nikki Grimes)
Dear Manny by Nic Stone
March 11, 2025
A Bird In the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne
Mach 25, 2025
We Are Villains by Kacen Callender
April 1, 2025
Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell
Give Up the Night by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
April 8, 2025
Playin’ Hard by Whitney Grandison
April 15, 2025
All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis
Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi
On Again, Awkward Again by Kwame Mbalia and Erin Entrada Kelly
Love in 280 Characters Or Less by Ravynn Stringfield
Two Truths and a Lionel by Brian Wasson
April 22, 2025
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Iron Tongue of Midnight by Brittany N. Williams
April 29, 2025
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis
May 6, 2025
I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta
Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
If I Could Go Back by Briana Johnson
This Thing of Ours by Frederick Joseph
It’s You Every Time by Charlene Thomas
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
May 13, 2025
The Education of Kia Greer by Alanna Bennett
May 20, 2025
Out of Step, Into You by Ciera Burch
Your Final Moments by Jay Coles
Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe
This Could Be Forever by Ebony LaDelle
June 3, 2025
Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury
Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson
June 10, 2025
Finding Prince Charming by Jamar J. Perry
June 17, 2025
The Tournament by Rebecca Barrow
June 24, 2025
Tempest by K. Ibura
July 1, 2025
Call Your Boyfriend by Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk
This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris
Pretty Girl County by Lakita Wilson
July 8, 2025
Love Spells Trouble by Nia Davenport
The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle
July 29, 2025
Bones At the Crossroads by LaDarrion Williams
August 5, 2024
How We Play the Game by Alexis Nedd
August 26, 2025
Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea
September 23, 2025
Flip! by Ngozi Ukazu
September 30, 2025
Showstopper by Lily Anderson
August 12, 2025
Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis
October 7, 2025
The Leaving Room by Amber Mcbride
October 14, 2025
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm by Mariama J. Lockington
December 2, 2025
There’s Always Next Year by Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson
Release Date TBD
We Kill the Flame by Tamara Cole
Adam, Mine by K. Ancrum
Reject Squad by Alyssa Cole, illustrated by O’Neill Jones
The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
Good Mourning by Circe Moskowitz
Basketball IQ by Michael Ralph and Nia Palmer & Laura Molnar
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr
An Ocean Apart by Jill Tew
Stepping Up by Kiara Valdez illustrated by Diana Tsai Santos