Get ready to preorder now! This list of new releases for October is huge. Look for books from your favorite authors, as well as sophomore and debut titles. For more books released in 2023, visit our New Releases page.
Picture Books
Hey, Baby Girl!
Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Cartwheel Books | October 3, 2023 | Bd Bk | Amazon | Bookshop
Countdown to Christmas
Nikki Shannon Smith | Letícia Moreno | Crown BYR | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
There Was a Party for Langston
Jason Reynolds | Jerome Pumphrey | Jarrett Pumphrey | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
In My Skin
Morgan Christie | Martina Stuhlberger | Lantana Publishing | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging
Eric Adjepong | Lala Watkins | Penguin Workshop | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Zora, the Story Keeper
Ebony Joy Wilkins | Dare Coulter | Kokila | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Our World: Ethiopia
Fitsum Tesfaye Habtemariam | Netsanet Tesfay | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Dear Dad: Love, Nelson: The Story of One Boy and His Incarcerated Father
Margarett McBride | David Wilkerson | Free Spirit Publishing | October 3, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Light She Feels Inside
Gwendolyn Wallace | Olivia Duchess | Sourcebooks Jabberwocky | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Nesting Dolls
Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Crown Books for BYR | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
I Love Everything About Me
Fatima Scipio | Paige Mason | Entangled: Little Lark | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Lullaby for the King
Nikki Grimes | Michelle Carlos | Beaming Books | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Wash Day
Tiffany Golden | Lhaiza Morena | Mayo Clinic Press Kids | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Santa’s Gotta Go!
Derrick Barnes | Courtney Lovet | Nancy Paulsen Books | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
We Could Fly
Rhiannon Giddens | Briana Mukodiri Uchendu | November 07, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Boyogi
David Barclay Moore | Noa Denmon | Candlewick | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration
Natalie Daise | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
How to Bird
Rasha Hamid | Free Spirit Publishing | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Most Magical Time of the Year!
April Showers | Anthony Conley | Random House Byr | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Tokyo Night Parade
J. P. Takahashi | Minako Tomigahara | Katherine Tegen Books | October 10, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Day of Dreams
Jevon Bolden | Penguin Young Readers Licenses | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Patchwork Prince
Baptiste Paul | Kitt Thomas | Dial Books | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Night Before Kwanzaa
Natasha Wing | Kirsti Jewel | Amy Wummer | Grosset & Dunlap | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Magical Snowflake
Bernette Ford | Erin Robinson | Boxer Books | October 17, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
The Bronx Is My Home
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris | Kim Holt | Little, Brown/Ottaviano | October 24, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White, U.S. Olympian and Long Jump Champion
Alice Faye Duncan | Keith Mallett | Calkins Creek | October 24, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson
Angela Joy | Jacqueline Alcántara | Roaring Brook Press | October 24, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
On the Line: My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette
Jennifer Jones | Robert Paul, Jr. | HarperCollins | October 31, 2023 | PB | Amazon | Bookshop
Chapter Books/Middle-Grade
Flying Up the Mountain
Elizabeth-Irene Baitie | Norton Young Readers | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
Jewell Parker Rhodes | Quill Tree Books | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Ellis Johnson Might Be Famous (Cookies & Milk, Bk. 2)
Shawn Amos | Little, Brown BYR | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Gone Wolf
Amber McBride | Feiwel & Friends | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Odwar Vs. The Shadow Queen
Shiko Nguru | Lantana Publishing | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
Randy Roberts | Johnny Smith | Margeaux Weston | Christy Ottaviano Books | October 3, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Breaking News (Frankie and Friends)
Christine Platt | Alea Marley | Walker Books | October 10, 2023 | Chp Bk | Amazon | Bookshop
A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions
Jamia Wilson | Jade Orlando | Magic Cat | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Poetry Prompts: 40 Ways to Start a Poem
Joseph Coelho | Georgie Birkett | Amanda Quartey | Grasya Oliyko | Viola Wang | Wide Eyed Editions | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
The Fall of the House of Tatterly
Shanna Miles | Union Square Kids | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
New in Town (A Curlfriends Graphic Novel)
Sharee Miller | Little, Brown Ink | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Just A Pinch of Magic
Alechia Dow | Feiwel & Friends | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
Tracy Occomy Crowder | Tu Books | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Remember Us
Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Untraceable
Aya de León | Candlewick | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Secret of the Reaping (The Vanquishers, Bk. 2)
Kalynn Bayron | Bloomsbury Children’s Books | October 10, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
She Persisted: Simone Biles
Kekla Magoon | Gillian Flint | Philomel Books | October 17, 2023 | ChpBk | Amazon | Bookshop
Ways to Build Dreams (A Ryan Hart Story, Bk. 4)
Renée Watson | Bloomsbury Children’s Books | October 17, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Etta Extraordinaire
Roda Ahmed | Charnaie Gordon | Chloe Burgett | HarperCollins | October 17, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew
DaVaun Sanders | Inkyard Press | October 17, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Ready, Set, Dough!
Kelly J. Baptist | Crown BYR | October 17, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Sparkle
Lakita Wilson | Viking BYR | October 24, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
Rain Remembers
Courtne Comrie | HarperCollins | October 24, 2023 | MG | Amazon | Bookshop
A Birthday Surprise: Big Sister Coco #1
Jesse Byrd | Lau Moraiti | Paw Prints Publishing | October 31, 2023 | ChBk | Amazon | Bookshop
Young Adults
The Homecoming War
Addie Woolridge | Underlined | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson | Quill Tree | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Salt the Water
Candice Iloh | Dutton BYR | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
The Blackwoods
Brandy Colbert | Balzer + Bray | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Looking for Grace
Pamela Varnado | Entangled: Teen | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Love in Winter Wonderland
Abiola Bello | Soho Teen | October 3, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
And Don’t Look Back
Rebecca Barrow | Margaret K. McElderry Books | October 3, 2023 | Fall 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Wearing My Mother’s Heart
Sophia Thakur | Candlewick | October 10, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Songs of Irie
Asha Ashanti Bromfield | Wednesday Books | October 10, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Brooms
Jasmine Walls | Teo DuVall | Levine Querido | October 10, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
Circe Moskowitz | Amberjack Publishing | October 17, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Stay Up: Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom
Khodi Dill | Stylo Starr | Annick Press | October 17, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Aimé Césaire: No to Humiliation
Nimrod | Emma Ramadan (Translated by) | Triangle Square | October 17, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
The Book of Radical Answers: Real Questions from Real Kids Just Like You
Sonya Renee Taylor | Dial Books | October 24, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Shannon Gibney | Nicole Chung | Harperteen | October 24, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
Carry My Secret to Your Grave (Murder, She Wrote #2)
Stephanie Kuehn | Scholastic Press | October 31, 2023 | YA | Amazon | Bookshop
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