There’s already a list on my blog of books by authors of color coming out in the next two years, but for those who want to read YA backlist titles by authors of color, which I strongly encourage, here’s a (completely non-exhaustive) list for that. (Note: for series, only the first book will be listed.)
As always, if you’re an author who doesn’t want to be listed here, please let me know and I’ll happily remove your book(s)!
2016
- The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You by Lily Anderson
- Little White Lies by Brianna Baker
- Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
- The Reader by Traci Chee
- The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
- Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
- Everyone We’ve Been by Sarah Everett
- Even if the Sky Falls by Mia Garcia
- The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
- Going Geek by Charlotte Huang
- Beyond the Red by Ava Jae
- The Smaller Evil by Stephanie Kuehn
- Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee
- Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
- The Midnight Star by Marie Lu
- Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
- Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee
- The Way to Game the Walk of Shame by Jenn P. Nguyen
- Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige
- Into White by Randi Pink
- Sacrifice by Cindy Pon
- Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
- Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
- Perfect Liars by Kimberly Reid
- The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
- Pasadena by Sherri L. Smith
- The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash
- Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana
- This is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang
2015
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh*
- Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton*
- Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert
- Endangered by Lamar Giles
- None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
- For the Record by Charlotte Huang
- Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn
- Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
- The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
- Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
- Serpentine by Cindy Pon*
- Show and Prove by Sofia Quintero
- All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
- An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes by Randy Ribay
- When Reason Breaks by Cindy Rodriguez
- Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
- X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
- A Love that Disturbs by Medeia Sharif
- More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
- Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir*
- Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash
- Hollywood Witch Hunter by Valerie Tejeda
- This Side of Home by Renee Watson
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
2014
- The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi
- The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco*
- Pointe by Brandy Colbert
- Fake ID by Lamar Giles
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han*
- Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland
- Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn
- Gates of Thread and Stone by Lori M. Lee*
- The Young Elites by Marie Lu*
- How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
- A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2013
- Dualed by Elsie Chapman*
- Since You Asked by Maurene Goo
- Vengeance Bound by Justina Ireland
- Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
- Prophecy by Ellen Oh*
- Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
2012
- The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova*
- Burn For Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian*
- Adaptation by Malinda Lo*
- The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
2011
- Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by Malin Alegria
- Huntress by Malinda Lo
- What Can(‘t) Wait by Ashley Hope Perez
2010
- When the Stars Go Blue by Barbara Caridad Ferrer
2009
- We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han*
- Ash by Malinda Lo
- Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon
- Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
2008
- Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena
- Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
2007
- It’s Not About the Accent by Caridad Ferrer
2006
- Tyrell by Coe Booth
- Adios to My Old Life by Caridad Ferrer
- Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz
*First in a series
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