Leah Johnson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Leah Johnson

Mariama writes so beautifully about emerging queerness and Black girlhood that it's hard to walk away from her books without your spirit being lifted.

Leah Johnson

There’s this quote in Between the World and Me where Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that Black Americans, specifically those enslaved, “were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”

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This one is a must-read for anyone who loves when a queer YA novel feels like a John Hughes movie for a new generation.

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In the tradition of Bigolas Dickolas let me just say if you read one book this week, it should be IF TOMORROW DOESNT COME. It’s truly one of the most astounding books I’ve ever read. Queer, end of the world, hope and humanity—I promise you won’t regret it. https://t.co/7I0wrOEHiA

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Got to launch OUT THERE (and my short story “Nobody Cares Who We Kiss at the End of the World” in it) at @AndersonsBkshp yesterday with @SaundraMitchell + @ohkemma! What a gift it is to celebrate queer books and stories along so many incredible folks 🎉🌈 https://bookshop.org/books/out-there-into-the-queer-new-yonder/9781335425898 https://t.co/DHd90fkaKT

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RT @beeragon: Anne Rice on Trans people. Rest well, Queen of the Damned, a generation of queer goths thanks you. https://t.co/dyfl56pObg

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RT @elisembryant: Queen Leah Johnson’s second book, RISE TO THE SUN, is out today and I am ready!! 😎☀️ https://t.co/8eKprsdHVa #RiseToThe…

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Really honored to be an Indiana writer, and even more honored still to be in the company of so many artists I've admired for a long time. Many thanks to @INHumanities for shortlisting YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN for the Indiana Author Award for Young Adult Fiction! https://t.co/OISpi5Zo1q

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Currently reading REGGIE AND DELILAH’S YEAR OF FALLING and absolutely losing my mind over the Elise Bryant Literary Universe that continues to unfold with each book!! We’re so blessed @elisembryant is writing these stories right now 🥹

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Happiest of pub days to this absolute angel of a human and this magnificent delight of a book! @julianw_writes, my love, we are all so so lucky to have another one of your works in the world 💕 Y’all go pick up RIGHT WHERE I LEFT YOU: https://bookshop.org/books/right-where-i-left-you/9780593206478 ✨ https://twitter.com/julianw_writes/status/1503719633895014406