Recs if you like How Long 'til Black Future Month?...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

Big vibes and big hair cover art books. (It's not a f*ckin 'cloud bob' Vogue).

respect your mothers! and their mothers, and their....

This list was generated from a post on pagebound club on Juneteenth in 2026. I opted to not try and make this list comprehensive but just to document the community recs from that day - however, if you have more books to recommend please comment in the forum! Prompts from the original post will be in the comments. Note: prompts asked for books by Black authors, not only those from/books set in the US. See comments section for more discussion.

short story collections by a single author in a variety of genres. recommendations welcome!

Short story collections with strange elements, scifi/fantasy, or magical realism to leave you unsettled and wanting more.. or maybe just wanting to get away

my GOAT

Science fiction and fantasy anthologies and story collections written and edited by BIPOC and/or focused on the experiences of BIPOC.

I love anthologies. Short fiction curated around a theme or a collection by an author I like have been some of the most rewarding reading I’ve ever done. The following are some of my favorites, from sci-fi, to dystopian, to YA, with a few of my favorite short fiction collections from single authors in there as well (particularly those who’s work falls into the sci-fi, fantasy or speculative genres)

Work in Progress Suggestions welcome!

I recently read How To Fall In Love With The Future and was thinking of books that remind me of that method of imagining a future where the reforms we want have already happened and imagining how we got there. If anyone has suggestions I'm incredibly open to it!