2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Black YA


Black YA Books

Charming as a Verb
Cinderella Is Dead
Ace of Spades
Monday's Not Coming
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle, #2)
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
Love Radio
Blackout
Allegedly
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha, #2)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Voting Booth
Grown
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Lists

Charming as a Verb by Ben PhilippeThe Voting Booth by Brandy ColbertA Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. GrandisonNow That I've Found You by Kristina ForestNot So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
2020 Black YA Contemporary Romances
7 books — 13 voters
On the Come Up by Angie ThomasWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoBlack Enough by Ibi ZoboiI Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina ForestWatch Us Rise by Renée Watson
Black Heroines 2019
68 books — 27 voters