It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your local library or indie book store to get more awareness and availability of these reads.

A Terrifying Brush with Optimism: New and Selected Stories by Brian Leung

Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran

Black Mestiza: Poems by Yael Valencia Aldana

Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji

Danilo Was Here by Tamika Burgess

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe

Mixed-Up by Brittney Williams, Kami Garcia

Motheater by Linda H. Codega

Mother River by Can Xue, Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping (translators)

New Moons: Phases of Healing by r.h. Sin

Power of Persuasion by Selena Montgomery, Stacey Abrams

Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman

Space for Everyone by Camilla Sucre, Seina Wedlick

Strange Beach: Poems by Oluwaseun Olayiwola

The Broposal by Sonora Reyes

The Choreic Period: Poems by Latif Askia Ba

The Interpreter by Monica Arnaldo, Olivia Abtahi

The Legend of Meneka by Kritika H. Rao

The New Internationals by David Wright Falade

The Rainfall Market by Slin Jung (translator), You Yeong-Gwang

The Relationship Mechanic by Karmen Lee

Toto by Hyewon Yum

Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences by Alex Iantaffi

We Do Not Part by e. yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris (translators), Han Kang