Recs if you like A Love Song for Ricki Wilde...

books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)

this is your reminder to read books by Black authors all month, all year, every year— not just during Black History Month. it’s crucially important to be able to diversify your reading and your bookshelves. expand your mind, your perspectives, your knowledge, and your taste. if you don’t know where to start, here are some recommendations!

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Every year we pick 10 books that we think rise above the rest. These are the 70 we've picked since 2019.

Updated to include our Best of 2025 picks.

Black girls deserve their happily ever after as well!

Thrillers, Fantasies, and Romance books with Paranormal vibes by black authors that are perfect for spooky season.

Black people falling in love written by Black people

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

A few lovely books written by Black women spanning every genre!

Love casts a spell; the real monster is oppression. Modern magical realism, urban fantasy, and fabulism: books that use supernatural elements to explore themes of family, desire, history, and society.

Book with main characters that are disabled. Both physical and mental included. Eg chronic/terminal illness, physical disabilities, mental illness, neurodivergance, addiction, injury and injury recovery, symptoms causing health issues etc. Doesn't have to be a diagnosed condition. Not necessarily by authors with shared experiences. Books any be any genre. Added only 1st book of series unless there are different characters.

Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments! No "magic cure" books.

finding love in a big city can be just as fun as finding love in a small town! I love small town romances, but as a girl from a big city, I want to give big city romances their time to shine ✨

here’s a list of books where our main characters live in a big city and fall in love there. cities can be real (London, Paris, New York, LA, Tokyo, etc.) or fictional (Minas Tirith, King’s Landing, Gotham, Bon Temps, etc.)!

as always, taking suggestions!!

Black love in all its glory

Romance books featuring Black and African FMCs. Because every queen deserves to see herself in a love story. Fell free to suggest recs! ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

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Romance books with black women being loved out loud real loud, and occasionally (often) cracked like a glow stick at night.

My private quest to finish all the KU books on my TBR

When books and music are intertwined. Fiction books that are not about music, but are moved by music.

Romance books I would recommend to anyone! I’m sure there’s lots of these lists out there, but as someone who reads about 100 romances a year, I thought I’d point out ones I love!