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Preston Coyote

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Cala F' Iya: Queen of Cala F'orn iya. An AfroSpecultative Series I've written with the Art by @FINDKATHARSIS #Booktok #bookstagram #LGBTQ #blacklesbians #BIPOCBooks #OrderNow #DecolonizeYourBookshelf #BlackOwnedBusiness #QueerBooks #ReadDiversely

October 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM Everybody can reply

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Gabby AKA Bookish AfroLatina

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I'm currently reading Blood Slaves by Marcus Redmond and it got me thinking about the numerous books out there with "blood" in the title. So I pulled together 12 BIPOC books with "blood" in their titles that I thought would be fitting reads for spooky season!
#Booksky #Bookrecs #BIPOCBooks

• Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
• The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun
• Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
• Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
• The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport
• Blood & Brujas: An Elements of Iteria Novel by Mikayla D Hornedo
• Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis
• Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
• Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye
• Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker

October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Lisa Cowan Pineo

@lisacowanpineo.bsky.social

I'm celebrating Black Poetry Day by highlighting poetry and novels-in-verse by Black authors published in 2015 to 2025. ✍🏿
#blackpoetryday #blackpoetry #blackpoets #blackauthors #poetry #poems #poetsofinstagram #blackpoet #poet #poetrylovers #bipoc #bipocbooks #bookpost #bookrecs #books #booksky💙📚

October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Preston Coyote

@prestoncoyote.bsky.social

Cala F' Iya: Queen of Cala F'orn iya. An AfroSpecultative Series I've written with the Art by @FINDKATHARSIS #Booktok #bookstagram #LGBTQ #blacklesbians #BIPOCBooks #OrderNow #DecolonizeYourBookshelf #BlackOwnedBusiness #QueerBooks #ReadDiversely

October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM Everybody can reply

SandyKeeks📖🧠

@sandykeeks.bsky.social

✨September Reading Wrap✨

A month of learning, frustration, and new all time favorites 🙌🏾 wouldn’t have it any other way

#booksky #bipocbooks

September 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM Everybody can reply

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✩⁺₊✩☽⋆𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁ℴ𝓌 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✩

@whimsical-willow.bsky.social

I’m looking for more Trans, Queer and BIPOC authors to support. Please bombard me with author and book recommendations 💖 thank you in advance!

#booksky 📚 #LGBTQ+ #queerbooks #transbooks #lgbtqbooks #bipocbooks

September 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM Everybody can reply

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CoNfEsSiOnSoFaVaMpYrE🩸

@mikashitamoari.bsky.social

Book IV The Y’driayns. LGBTQIA+ DarkFantasy romance, science fiction, action thriller, pentalogy. Don’t be afraid to read & traverse the expanse of limitless imagination. The occult & its mysteries await your ever thirstful gaze within these pages. Be fearless. #extraterrestrial #bipocbooks #poc

Coven leader Luka lays with his 1st novel The Enaphim on his torso. His handsome countenance is mesmerizing. Half of his face is shadowed in darkness and his eye glows a moonlight color showcasing the other half of himself, his extraterrestrial genetics. He wears a black hooded cardigan, a necklace and a green ball cap. His eyes stare into your soul. Link in bio to all five novels.

Welcome to the fourth novel of my series in the phenomenal, romantic, intergalactic and legendary adventures of The Enaphim. This story is called The Y’driayns. Your heroes have just defended the Milky Way and Earth from complete and utter obliteration by the Apocalyptic Cosmic Tsunami. Giraud had sacrificed his life to ensure his friends and our universe remain intact. Reeling from the loss Amara and Finn have lost their will to live and are irremediably devastated. We find the once united coven broken beyond repair reaching for scraps to remake it whole once again.

Do not fret. Like a phoenix reborn from the flames and ashes they arise to greater heights of supernatural and transcendent power exceeding that of which they’ve ever known. This numinous witchy story reveals new aspects of their ever developing omnipotent powers and the perilous extents they’re willing to push themselves in order to achieve their ambitions. The Elder’s go in search of their parents, the Greater Elder’s who have mysteriously vanished. Their telepathic bonds and spirit tethers have been severed. They’re presumed lost in the Andromeda or worse. Luka and his team meet with a new race of extraterrestrials on the path to Planet Ena.

Secrets untold about them and their countless millennia old interpersonal relationships are revealed. Luka and his coven perform thaumaturgies unlike what they’ve ever done in the past, almost destroying themselves in the process. They take it upon themselves to reunite a loved one for their extraterrestrial cousins across the galaxy. An irreplaceable someone who was lost due to the Cosmic Detonation. Izumi and Amara work mystical sorcery, bending the very laws of physics and reality to their will as an act of goodwill in hopes to protect Earth from ever eminent terraform. They travel the outskirts of the Andromeda star jumping while space exploring in intergalactic starships of surprising origin.
Link in bio to all five novels.

July 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Angela | Angel's Book Nook

@angelsbooknook17.bsky.social

Cover Reveal: Foxes & Poisons (The Queen’s Favor) by Adina Chiles wp.me/pf9Cse-6kz

#rrbooktours #rrbtFoxesandPoisonsReveal #foxesandpoisons #thequeensfavorduology #romanticfantasybooks #romanticfantasy #romantasybooks #bipocbooks #coverreveal

July 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM Everybody can reply

Phoenix (she/they)

@bookishphoenix.bsky.social

You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson

This has sapphic rep.

I haven’t read this yet, but it sounds like a good read.

#lgbtqbooks #bipocbooks

Shows the cover of You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson

June 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM Everybody can reply

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jbharrisauthor.bsky.social

@jbharrisauthor.bsky.social

✨ Just reviewed a 4+ star read rooted in Native culture and storytelling. Authentic, powerful, and deeply satisfying—this one sticks with you. Highly recommend. 📚

#BookReview #NativeVoices #IndigenousLit #BIPOCBooks #AmReading #BookRec #OwnVoices #FictionMatters #ReadersOfX #BlueskyBooks #TBR

June 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM Everybody can reply

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Lisa Cowan Pineo

@lisacowanpineo.bsky.social

Read for Pride month! Here are 18 BIPOC queer novels published in 2025 that are on my TBR list.

#books #booksky #bipocbooks #diversebooks #lgbtqbooks #pridemonth #pridebooks #queerbooks #junepride #2025release

June 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM Everybody can reply

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Revolution Kitty (Kitty Hyatt) writes things 🫧🦋🐈‍⬛️

@xoxrevkitty.bsky.social

Miza’s interview is almost ready, but I want your voice in it.

Voting tiers can now choose the final questions that make it in.

Join the vote:
#HOLSeries #FantasyBooks #PatreonWriters #IndieAuthor #CharacterInterview #BlackFantasy #QueerFantasy #BIPOCBooks #Fantasy #ReadersWanted #Fiction

Vote: For Interview Questions | Kitty Hyatt

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June 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM Everybody can reply

Coriolis

@coriolisco.bsky.social

#HappyPublicationDay to author and executive coach Chanchal Garg! Her book "Unearthed: The Lies We Carry and the Truths They Bury" is now available. 📚

Grab your copy here: www.amazon.com/Unearthed-Li...

#ChanchalGarg #Unearthed #IndianAmericanAuthor #BIPOCBooks #PubDay

June 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM Everybody can reply

Coriolis

@coriolisco.bsky.social

We are currently promoting "Unearthed: The Lies We Carry and the Truths They Bury" by author and executive coach Chanchal Garg.

Stay tuned for more updates!

#ChanchalGarg #Unearthed #Memoir #IndianAmericanAuthor #BIPOCBooks #ImmigrantExperience #CoriolisClient

Currently promoting "Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & the Truths They Bury" by Chanchal Garg.

May 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM Everybody can reply

24hr.YABookBlog

@24hryabookblog.bsky.social

🖊️featuring authors (1/?): @vvmontalban.bsky.social catherine yu, @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social @chessiezappia.bsky.social @zoehanamikuta.bsky.social @kosokojackson.bsky.social @nvtran.bsky.social, tiffany d. jackson @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social
#yabooksky #bookblogger #bipocbooks

April 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Autumn Revel

@autumnrevel.bsky.social

Here’s a book & a cat keeping me company on #caturday #booksky💙📚 #bipocbooks #bipocbookrecs #bookrecs #fiction #lgbtqauthors

A picture of the cover of “Freshwater@ by Akwaeke Emezi which features a python illustrated on the cover. It is being held above a stack of other books blurred in the background.

A brown, white, and black fluffy cat stares at the camera with her very intense green eyes and she looks a little rumpled. She is sitting on a white bed.

April 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM Everybody can reply

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AingealWroth

@aingealwroth.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to Cry Voidbringer! This is a #netgalley #arcread for me and I am enjoying it very much.
#binderybooks #leftunreadbooks #readdiverse #bipocreads #queerrrads #bipocbooks #queerbooks
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Cry, Voidbringer

Check out Cry, Voidbringer - In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love? With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi has had to find anot...

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April 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM Everybody can reply

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Leslie Hope

@lesliehope.bsky.social

Queer Books Published 2025: An Honored Vow (The Halfling Saga 4), by Melissa Blair. Full decription at leslie-redirects-here.tumblr.com/post/7798147... #queer #queerbooks #halflings #fantasy #sapphic #lesbian #queerromance #romancebooks #reading #newreleases #published2025 #bipocbooks #bipoc #wlw

April 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM Everybody can reply

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@EKtheAuthor

@ektheauthor.bsky.social

I often wonder if querying is even worth it as a POC wanting to tell REAL life stories about POC... #writingcommunity #amquerying #authorslife #writerslife #literaryworld #bipocbooks #POC

March 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM Everybody can reply

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iskanchipress.bsky.social

@iskanchipress.bsky.social

“They said diverse books don’t sell. We proved them wrong.”

At the ABA BIPOC IGNITE Conference, Iskanchi Press showcased revolutionary books amplifying African voices! This event gave BIPOC booksellers a space to thrive.

Which African book changed your life?
#ABAIGNITE #BIPOCBooks #IskanchiPress

March 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Rae Ryan

@backaswords.bsky.social

Talking about diverse short story anthologies on the video apps. Some are queer, some are BIPOC and some are both!

https://m.mtrbio.com/eeitmqmyvr

#booksky #queerbooks #bipocbooks #shortstories