- World in between, based on a true refugee story, by Kenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro
- Melissa, Alex Gino
- Evil eye, a novel, Etaf Rum
- The lucky ones, Linda Williams Jackson
- Code of courage, a novel, Janice Cantore
- And then he sang a lullaby, Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
- Meet me in Mumbai, Sabina Khan
- His only wife, a novel by Peace Adzo Medie
- Voice with no echo, Suzanne Chazin
- The summer of bitter and sweet, Jen Ferguson
- The sun collective, a novel, Charles Baxter
- Take my hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- What about Will, Ellen Hopkins
- The_atmospherians, a novel, Alex McElroy
- Laxmi's mooch, by Shelly Anand ; illustrated by Nabi H. Ali
- All aboard the schooltrain, a little story from the Great Migration, by Glenda Armand ; illustrated by Keisha Morris
- The last blue, Isla Morley
- Lazarus rising, a novel by Joseph Caldwell
- The ardent swarm, a novel, Yamen Manai ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
- What strange paradise, Omar El Akkad
- Hush Harbor, a novel, Anise Vance
- Paradise, WV, a novel, Rob Rufus
- There is a rainbow, written by Theresa Trinder ; pictures by Grant Snider
- Troublemaker, John Cho with Sarah Suk
- Out of Mesopotamia, by Salar Abdoh
- The son of the house, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
- The two lives of Sara, Catherine Adel West
- The sweet remnants of summer, Alexander McCall Smith
- A good neighborhood, a novel, Therese Anne Fowler
- The road to after, written and illustrated by Rebekah Lowell
- Rickshaw girl, Mitali Perkins ; illustrated by Jamie Hogan
- Finding Grace, a novel, Janis Thomas
- These women, a novel, Ivy Pochoda
- An elegant woman, a novel, Martha McPhee
- When stars rain down, a novel, Angela Jackson-Brown
- Small mercies, a novel, Dennis Lehane
- The other Black girl, a novel, Zakiya Dalila Harris
- All my rage, Sabaa Tahir
- Saints of the household, Ari Tison
- His only wife, Peace Adzo Medie
- When life gives you mangos, Kereen Getten
- The ambassador of Nowhere Texas, Kimberly Willis Holt
- What passes as love, a novel, Trisha R. Thomas
- Who they was, Gabriel Krauze
- Memphis, a novel, Tara M. Stringfellow
- Hot stew, a novel, Fiona Mozley
- Horse, Geraldine Brooks
- Calling for a blanket dance, a novel by Oscar Hokeah
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- The secret battle of Evan Pao, Wendy Wan-Long Shang