I will keep this short and sweet! We voted last week to prepare a list of books for our bookclub reads six months out at a time. Since there are only eight months left in the year, I just mapped out the rest of the year so that library users have time to put holds on books! I don't want any of you to miss out on participating because a book isn't available.

For those of you who choose to buy our bookclub books, I will link them all down below. It would mean alot to me if you use my links to Bookshop.org! But obviously, no issue if you choose not to!

Here are our books for the rest of the year:

• May: When Blood Meets Earth by E.A. Noble

• June: Tj Young and the Orisha: Gatekeepers Staff by Antoine Bandele

• July: The Waning by Wunmi Aramiji

• August: The Inevitability of by Neeka Marie

• September: No One's Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda Weaver

• October: Whispers of Emberstones by M. Maldanado

• November: CRY, VOIDBRINGER by Elaine Ho

• December: Chaos Wielder by The AE Cosby

With the exception of Cry, Voidbringer, these books are all self-published by Black and/or brown authors. We have been talking a lot about our continued effort to fight for indies and this is one way we can do that. We can read their books and we can collectively talk about them. So my hope is that each and every one of you will not only participate in reading this books, but that each month, we can pull together almost one thousand readers to talk about and honestly review these books. Let's make a difference!!!!

To best engage, make sure you are in our community discord, which you can join by going to "my account" and clicking "sync discord"!

THIS month, we are reading The Poppy War by RF Kuang and our zoom meeting will be on April 25th at 7:30 pm CST. Event info to come!

As you know, this community is not only focused on reading incredible books...but also publishing them. And that work takes meaningful community and real help. If you are not already subscribed, please consider doing so. If possible, at the $5 or $12 tier, to help us fund these projects. Our first will launch this October, so make sure you pre-order it: https://bookshop.org/a/87137/9781964721521