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November 2025 Audiobook Releases November 1st Livewire by Sarah Raughley November 4th Son of the Morning by Akwaeka Emezi Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by Ashley D. Farmer Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson The Devious Date by C. Monet Black-Owned The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa Bitter Honey by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström Shade is a Place by MaKshya Tolbert The Look by Michelle Obama Bottom of the Pyramid by Nia Sioux November 2025 Audiobook Releases November 4th Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite Eternal Ruin by Tigest Girma November 11th Only For Me K. C. Mills November 18th I, Medusa by Ayana Gray I’ll Make a Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America by Lauretta Malloy Noble & LeeAnet Noble Love’s Neutral Zone by Love Belvin Zuri Blues by Tiye November 25th Truce of the Matter by Charity Shane' Love You a Little Bit by Kasha Thompson Fever by Kimberly Brown Somebody Else Will by Monica Walters
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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October 2025 Audiobook Releases October 7th Heartsick by Kristina Forest Where We Found Our Passion by Natasha Bishop The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson October 14th Fortress of Ambrose by J. Elle I Accidentally Hired a Shadow Walker by Jessica Cage An Ocean Apart by Jill Tew I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm by Mariama J. Lockington October 21st Love You A Bit by Kasha Thompson October 28th An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita You Could Do Damage Too by K.C. Mills Lost in the Garden of Eve by L. Divine Our Vicious Oaths by N. E. Davenport
September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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September 2025 Audiobook Releases September 2nd Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola A Brew of Chaos by Esme Addison In Deadly Company by L. S. Stratton Where We Found Our Heart by Natasha Bishop The Dating Prohibition by Taj McCoy Negligent by Design: Anti-Blackness in American Medicine and How to Address it by Vanessa Grubbs, MD September 9th Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis Little Moments by Lauren Morrow The Cruel Dawn by Rachel Howzell Hall September 16th The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged And Underpaid by Anna Gifty Opoku- Agyeman The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez September 2025 Audiobook Releases September 16th Who’s All Going (to Die)? by Lisa Springer The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne Surviving Paris: A Memoir Healing in the City of Light by Robin Allison Davis The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters by Sasha Bonét September 23rd It’s Me They Follow by Jeannine A. Cook 107 Days by Kamala Harris Someday, Now: A Memoir of Family Reclaiming Possibility and One Sicilian Summer by Tembi Locke September 30th The Sovereign by C. L. Clark Make Me a Monster by Kalynn Bayron Hunting Ava by Kiki Swinson Showstopper by Lily Anderson Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith
September 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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August 2025 Audiobook Releases August 5th This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze August 12th The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera Family Spirit by Diane McKinney-Whetstone You’ve Got a Place Here, Too Edited by Ebony LaDelle The Re-Write by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn August 19th How to Be Unmothered by Camille U. Adams Kings Catch by Iesha Bree Somebody Else Will by Monica Walters Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris August 26th Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee August 28th Resting Bitch Face by Taylor Byas
July 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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July 2025 Audiobook Releases July 1st Pretty Girl County by Lakita Wilson Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook July 8th Lore of the Tides by Analeigh Sbrana All the Men I've Loved Again by Christine Pride Love Spells Trouble by Nia Davenport Sounds Like Trouble by Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle July 15th Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore Pugs and Kisses by Farrah Rochon The Payback by Kashana Cauley Jamaica Road by Lisa Smith July 2025 Audiobook Releases July 15th A Summer for the Books by Michelle Lindo-Rice My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero July 17th Quarter-Love Crisis by Jasmine Burke July 22nd Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde July 29th A Mastery of Monsters by Liselle Sambury Something in the Water by Phyllis R. Dixon August Lane by Regina Black Summer’s Echo by Robbi Renee Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu A Second Swing at Love by Tay Mo’nae Icing on the Murder by Valerie Burns
June 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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June 2025 Audiobook Releases June 3rd Under the Neon Lights by Arriel Vinson Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter Love’s Encroachment by Love Belvin A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings Where We Found Our Home by Natasha Bishop The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward June 10th Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance by A'Lelia Bundles Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen Finding Prince Charming by Jamar J. Perry A Murder for Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant Black Capitalists by Rachel Laryea, PhD June 2025 Audiobook Releases June 10th King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby Solo Stan by Talia Tucker June 17th When the Music Hits by Amber Oliver Offensive Formations by Christina C. Jones The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship by Dana Williams Naughty F.A.N: Fu*k All Night by Mel Dau These Heathens by Mia McKenzie June 24th Vengeance and Fire by Dreia Wells The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa Whispers of the Lake by Shanora Williams
June 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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May 2025 Audiobook Releases May 6th: Only Because It’s You by Rebecca Fisseha The Ones We Loved by Tarisai Ngangura Audre & Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams May 13th: The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf by Kaila Adia Story Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan A Gardin Wedding by Rosey Lee May 20th: Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us by Anna Malaika Tubbs Uncommon Favor by Dawn Staley This Could Be Forever by Ebony LaDelle Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline May 27th: The Parker Sisters: Aurora by Tay Mo’nae
April 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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April 2025 Audiobook Releases April 1st The Payback Girls by Alex Travis Love’s Ineligible Receiver by Love Belvin No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel Unlikely Neighbors by Renee Daniel Flagler April 8th The Book of Possibilities: Words of Wisdom on the Road of Becoming by Bee Quammie Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell April 15th Somadina by Akwaeka Emezi All the Noise at Once by DeAndra Davis When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris Chaos King by Kacen Callender April 2025 Audiobook Releases April 15th Love in 280 Characters or Less by Ravynn K. Stringfield Francine’s Spectacular Crash & Burn by Renee Swindle April 22nd Iron Tongue of Midnight by Brittany N. Williams The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite Zeal by Morgan Jenkins Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality & This Thing Called Life by Pamela Ayo Yetunde If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles April 29th Ms. V’s Hot Girl Summer by A.H. Cunningham Pass Interference by Christina C. Jones Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis One Way Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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March 2025 Audiobook Releases March 4th: The Love Simulation by Etta Easton I Accidentally Hooked Up With A Vampire by Jessica Cage The Trouble of Color by Martha S. Jones Burden of Love by Mya Forever Begins by Tiye Oathbound by Tracy Deonn World Eaters by Catherine Bracy March 11th: Love, Rita by Bridgett M. Davis March 18th One in a Million by Beverley Kendall In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae March 25th : Just Our Luck by Denise Williams Unlucky You by K. C. Mills
February 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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February 2025 Audiobook Releases February 4th: Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker A Season of Light by Julie Iromuanya This Ends in Embers by Kamilah Cole The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest No One Is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Lakeysha Hallmon Calling In by Loretta J. Ross Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson Let Us March On: A Novel by Shara Moon Who I Always Was by Theresa Okokon Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray February 2025 Audiobook Releases February 11th Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing (S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi Fair Catch by Jahquel J. Mainline Mama: A Memoir by Keeonna Harris Under the Influence by Kimberly Brown I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming Frenemies with Benefits by Synithia Williams Losing Sight by Tati Richardson February 18th Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi February 25th You Could Do Damage by K.C. Mills Burden of Love by Mya Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work by Shari Dunn
February 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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What’s the website/browser extension that shows if your library has a book?

I just found this challenge a few weeks ago. I’ve found most of the authors at my library but the extension would help to make sure I don’t over look any

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Screenshot of a StoryGraph reading challenge Black Romance Book Fest 2025 Reading Challenge verbalhaven Host 361 participants (918 books) 01 Jun 2024—29 May 2025 26% 34/130 prompts done Overview Read a book by each Black Romance Book Fest attending author. Event Founder: Lauren Lacey
January 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If you stop apps/programs from sending diagnostic information check your Libby settings
Menu screen of Libby. A red arrow points to the menu icon at the bottom of the screen. A second red arrow points at Diagnostics & Analytics midway the screen Diagnostics & Analytics When you are trying to do something in Libby and it doesn't work, we send anonymized diagnostic information to our servers. This helps us track down problems and improve Libby for everyone. Analytics We do not have analytics in Libby today. In 2025, we will begin collecting some feature-usage data. Following privacy best practices, this will be minimal, optional, and anonymous. Under the above text is your current setting. Under the settings is Learn More. There’s a red arrow pointing to Learn More If you're comfortable with the app sending anonymous data to OverDrive when features are used or problems are encountered, great! It makes Libby better for everyone. If you do not want Libby to send this data, you can opt out. Allow Diagnostics & Analytics Help us improve Libby. Allow Diagnostics Only Do not send feature-use analytics. Opt Out Do not send any usage data.
January 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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If no one is waiting. The option doesn’t show up until three days before it’s due. If someone is waiting then the option is to join the wait list
Red arrow pointing at Manage Loan Red arrow pointing to Renew Loan
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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January 2025 Audiobook Releases January 7th: End Zone Love by Love Belvin (Read by Elyce Anthony and Winston James) Bemused by Farrah Rochon (Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt) January 14th: Mr. Play for Keeps by Kimmie Ferrell (Read by Winston James and Elyce Anthony) Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar Once Smitten, Twice Shy by Chloe Liese Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Brewed with Love by Shelly Page January 16: The Baby Dragon Cafe by A. T. Qureshi January 21st: Soul of the Stone by Sharina Harris (Read by James Fouhey and Julienne Irons) The Relationship Mechanic by Karmen Lee Love on Paper by Danielle Parker January 28th: At the Fount of Creation by Tobi Ogundiran (Narrated by Channie Waites)
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
Celestial Elementals by Jaymar Jackson
Illustrated cover of Noor. A Black woman is seen in a close-up where her shoulders face the right side of the book and her eyes look at the reader. Her braided hair is in a bun. In the middle of her forehead is an oval metal piece. The background is yellow, giving the appearance of a bright light. Illustrated cover of The A.I. Who Loved Me. On the left side of the cover stands Trinity a Black woman with short curly hair (tapered sides) wearing a pink cami and lighter pink leggings with large lighter pink hearts. She is holding a laundry basket full of clothes. On the right side of the cover stands Li Wei a Ken looking man with black hair holding a gray and white cat. He has one black iris and one red iris. He’s wearing a light blue tshirt and blue jeans. Book cover has muted colors, mostly green and purple/lavender. A woman in a spacesuit has white material draped over her. Excess material floats around her. Celestial Elementals book cover looks like a movie poster with individual Black characters clustered together in front of a celestial background. At the center, slightly larger than the rest, is a bald man in white/silver. To the left of him is a woman with long braids in yellow. To the right of him is a curly haired man in blue. In front of him is a man with an afro in green. In front and to the left of the man in green is a woman in aqua with short curly hair and to the right is a man in red with low cut hair.
January 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Click/touch the challenge icon at the bottom of the page
Challenges page on StoryGraph. Bottom center icon (looks like a minimalist award) is selected. Page has options to set up reading goal, pages goal and hours goal for 2025
January 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Next Up: Playing For Keeps by D.A. Young
Illustrated black cover with white chalk drawn basketball in the lower left corner, soccer ball in the top right corner, x’s and o’s with arrows representing direction. Red butterflies are scattered throughout the cover. The title is left aligned, serif, white text. Each word on its own line. An engagement ring is the o in for.
December 8, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Next Up: The Last One by Rachel Howzell Hall
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Illustrated cover with a black background, white san serif text for the title and gold san serif text for the author’s name. The focus of the cover is a red and gold creature with wings, somewhat reminiscent of a moth, with gold horns.
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Wonder how many of these new releases my library will get. I’m thinking My Fairy God Somebody and Playing for Keeps
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Square graphic of five book covers, three covers on the first row and two covers on the second. My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen (Illustrated cover of a girl shown from head to above the knees in a tank and blue jeans on a street. People in the background, standing on the sidewalk and sitting on stoops, are silhouettes) The Last One by Rachel Howzell Hall (Illustrated cover with a black background, white san serif text for the title and gold san serif text for the author’s name. The focus of the cover is a red and gold creature with wings, somewhat reminiscent of a moth, with gold horns.) Playing For Keeps by D.A. Young (Illustrated black cover with white chalk drawn basketball in the lower left corner, soccer ball in the top right corner, x’s and o’s with arrows representing direction. Red butterflies are scattered throughout the cover. The title is left aligned, serif, white text. Each word on its own line. An engagement ring is the o in for.) Unexpectedly Yours by C. Chilove (Illustrated cover with a wide shot of a sunset over a lake. A couple, man and woman, are in a rowboat on the lake. The color palette for the sunset (and reflection on the lake) is pink, blue and white.) Beautiful Broken Love by Shanora Williams (Cover color palette is pink and white. There’s a closeup of a pink flower and smaller yellow flowers. Over the flowers is the title and author. Each word is on its own line. Text is white, san serif.) In place of a third book, on the second row is Library Wishlist December 3, 2024 Library is left aligned, san serif, all caps and purple with a shadow. Wishlist is right aligned, script and blue with a shadow. The date is centered, san serif and purple. Wishlist overlaps library and the date.
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BlackBookSky #BookChallenge #Memoir #Booksky

Day 20: Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble by Deesha Dyer
Cover of Undiplomatic is an orange and purple photo of a woman. Only the lower half of her face is visible. She has a gold nose ring and hoop earrings, added digitally. Superimposed on her neck is the Philadelphia skyline. Under the skyline is the title and author. All cover text is san serif. “Undiplomatic” is large, all caps, white text covering the width of the book. “How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble” is a lighter purple, runs on two lines and is a third of the height of undiplomatic. “Deesha Dyer” is half the height of undiplomatic all caps, white text. “Former White House Social Secretary” is a lighter purple, runs on two lines and is a third of the height of undiplomatic. Superimposed on the bottom of the cover is the Washington, D.C. skyline.
December 3, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BlackBookSky #BookChallenge #Memoir

Day 19: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MD
Cover of Legacy is dark blue with a stethoscope taking up most of the cover. The stethoscope is multicolored and multi-patterned like a quilt. Cover text is all caps, white san serif font. “Legacy” is large above the stethoscope. “A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” is a quarter of the size of legacy and is positioned in the u-shape of the stethoscope. “Uché Blackstock, MD” is half the size of legacy, over the bottom of the stethoscope.
December 2, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BlackBookSky #BookChallenge

Day 18: Sistah Samurai by Tatiana Obey
Cover of Sistah Samurai, styled like a Japanese ink painting, features a Black woman standing with a katana in hand and wakizashi at her hip. Wind blows her afro and red and black haori. Red cherry blossom branches are near the top of the cover. The title looks like brush strokes and is at the bottom of the cover. On the right side of the cover, below cherry blossoms and above the title, the author’s name runs top to bottom with the first name to the left of the last name.
December 1, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BlackBookSky #BookChallenge

Day 17: Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines by Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Book cover of Unmasking AI featuring a close up illustrated rendering of Dr. Joy Buolamwini in her signature white glasses and red blazer. She is holding a white mask up so her right eye is looking through the left eye hole of the mask.
November 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BlackBookSky #BookChallenge

Day 16: I’m Not Supposed to be in the Dark
Cover of I’m Not Supposed to be in the Dark featuring a headshot of Aria Cayetano looking at the reader over her shoulder. Her face and curly shoulder length hair are in focus, her shoulders are not. At the very top of the cover and partially covering her hair hangs wisteria and brush strokes (pink, purple and teal). At the bottom of the cover (overlaying her shoulders) is the title. Its in a san serif font, all caps, centered aligned, three rows and a subtle linear gradient (from top to bottom) from white to transparent.
November 29, 2024 at 12:43 PM