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Thank you for the VICTIM shoutout! It is much appreciated, and I hope you enjoy the read!

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congratulations on the book! i’m so excited to get my hands on it 😊

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I'm very excited about your book!

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Thank you, I love to hear that!

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Can’t wait to read so many of these. Thank you

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Glad it was helpful :)

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Sometimes I get bummed it takes years for my favorite writers to come out with new books, but then I see a lineup like this of books to read by new-to-me authors and I get so excited. What a list!

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Thank you! And same!! I’ve been waiting on a third book from Tomi Adeyemi and Danielle Evans for what feels like eons

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This is amazing, going to bookmark to keep coming back to! Thanks for sharing such a comprehensive list and putting so many great books on my radar!

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Thank you for reading :)

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This is a great list, thanks for sharing all these titles! I headed straight to Netgalley to request a few I hadn't heard of....I've read a few pages of Victim already and really like his writing style

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Thank you for reading!

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such a great roundup 🪽 so many books so little time!!!

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thank you! and I know!! even if I read a book a day I’ll never get to them all.

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so nice i bookmarked it twice… Thanks for making this !! VERY excited for some of these titles x

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Thank you! Excited for you to read!

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A really great list Tembe! Thank you (so much) for sharing my newsletter and being so kind about it. I equally lean heavily on yours for such great recommendations - proof in how long I spent reading and writing down the titles from this piece! What a treasure trove of new books.

I am so eager to read Martyr and have also only heard such high praise. I can’t wait for Victims, Wandering Orange and James. I am DYING for their pub dates. Ours, Broughtupsy Great Expectations, Dominoes and The Obscene Bird of Night are all new titles to me which sound absolutely incredible.

A book that I can’t wait to be published this year is Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh - I think it’s being published in June so you very much might be aware of it. But on the chance you’re not I thought I’d pass on the title! ❣️

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I have seen Blessings! I'm obsessed with the cover. Excited to read that one. And thank you so so much. I'm so glad it was helpful :)

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YES the blessings cover is gorgeous - excited for both of us to get our hands on it.

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I’m sure there’ll be much to discuss!

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I find new recommendations through book prize long & shortlists too :) This was super helpful, i'll be coming back to this as wellll. Martyr and Dominoes are currently on my TBR!

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SO good!

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