
CELEBRATING MUSIC LEGENDS – NONFICTION
DEBORAH PAREDEZ’s American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous explores the impact divas have had on her life and on American culture. Tina Turner’s spellbinding performances, Celia

RECLAIMING & DEFENDING OUR DEMOCRACY – NONFICTION
In the updated edition of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy, SAM DALEY-HARRIS applies decades of experience leading citizens’ advocacy groups to

SUPERNATURAL TRUTHS – FICTION
Ghostroots: Stories is ‘PEMI AGUDA’s debut collection set in Lagos, Nigeria. From a teenager who lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease killing local

A MESSY SURVIVAL, A REPRISE OF JOY: THE CRAFT OF POETRY
Miami Book Fair’s own inaugural Emerging Writer Fellow in Poetry GABRIEL RAMIREZ (2021) returns to the Magic City with his debut poetry collection, If Pit

LIFE’S A B**** AND THEN YOU LAUGH – THREE MEMOIRS
In Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman, STEPHEN BRUNO writes about life as a sentinel of a high-end residential building. There are

PROTECTING FLORIDA’S PARKS & ECOSYSTEMS – NONFICTION
In Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People, EVAN P. BENNETT explores the environmental history of Florida’s largest open-water estuary – the

NATURE AT STAKE: THE COST OF HUMAN ADVANCEMENT – NONFICTION
ERNEST SCHEYDER’s The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives explores the battle between industry titans, conservationists, community groups, and

FOUR VOICES ON SAFETY & SURVIVAL – FICTION
In ELYSHA CHANG’s A Quitter’s Paradise, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as memories surface of her cold,

INTERIOR LIVES OF STRANGERS IN STRANGE LANDS – FICTION
In JEAN HANFF KORELITZ’s The Sequel: A Novel (The Book Series #2), Anna’s taken care of her bestselling novelist husband, laid to rest the accusations

SELFHOOD, SPACE & THE DEEP COMPASSION OF POETRY
The poems in Bound by JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY seek to carve a space in the world for Blackness and queerness that isn’t defined by trauma or

THRILLERS AS SHARP AS A KNIFE’S EDGE – FICTION
ALLY CONDIE’s The Unwedding: A Novel begins with a wedding at a beautiful resort – an event that turns tragic when Ellery discovers a dead

COMING OF AGE & COMING OUT – FICTION & MEMOIR
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir captures ZOË BOSSIERE’s experience as a trans child growing up in an Arizona trailer park. As they reckon with the