August’s BIPOC Books to Add to Your TBR

BIPOC Adaptation news has been all over the place. One the one hand, we got a date for the third Black Panther movie, and an announcement on Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy is coming to TV. There was also the trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, which racked up 16 million views in only three days. On the other hand, there is some drama going on with Children of Blood and Bone, they canceled Blade—even after Mahershala Ali trained for over a year for it (how you fumble a Mahershala Ali Blade is beyond me)—and Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been canceled, and that’s after it was first renewed. There’s something funky going on when it comes to adaptations centering BIPOC characters, and it seems to be totally disregarding what the public actually wants. With that said, there are at least some great BIPOC books out this month. Below is just a sample, but they include a long lost memoir by a Hiroshima survivor, a nuanced look at female friendship, Claudia Rankine’s latest genre-defying work, and more. Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Translated by Koko Tanimoto KondoOn August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, tens of thousands of people in Hirosh...