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Book Bingo NW 2025 - BIPOC Historical Fiction/Nonfiction

Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Historical Fiction and Historical Nonfiction. Summer Book Bingo is our NEW adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations by staff, review sources, or publisher as noted.

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28 items

  • We Hereby Refuse

    Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

    Abe, Frank, 1951-
    Teen Nonfiction GN. Illustrates the experiences of three individuals—Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, and Mitsuye Endo—caught up in the US government’s decision during World War II to treat Japanese Americans as traitors. Join us for many more events…
    Book, 2021Seattle, Washington : Wing Luke Museum : Chin Music Press, [2021]
  • Fiction. A young woman struggles for independence alongside a nation. A captivating—if imperfect—account of colonialism, Islam, and the burgeoning nation of Sudan. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
  • Fiction. Balibrera eulogizes the lives lost in La Matanza, the real-life 1932 massacre of the Pipil people by the Salvadoran government, and underscores the value of holding one’s culture close, even when it threatens to disrupt just-scarring…
    Book, 2024New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Blackhawk, Ned,
    Nonfiction. A wide-ranging study that moves Indigenous peoples from the periphery to the core of continental history. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2023New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2023]
  • Fiction. Darnell, a Black, gay, intermittently successful music producer, has received the commission of a lifetime: a gig producing an album by his idol, America’s first Black superhero, Harriet Tubman. (Booklist Review)
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2025.
  • Fiction. Childhood sweethearts reunite in the shadow of the Mexican War and the threat of vampires. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023]
  • Fiction. It's 1950 and the relatively sheltered life of Robert Stephens, a 12-year-old African American boy living in Florida, is changed forever when he comes to the aid of his older sister, Gloria, who is harassed by the teenage son of their…
    Book, 2023New York : Saga Press, 2023.
  • Fiction. This novel offers a revisionist history of Sacajewea, the Lemhi Shoshone woman who, while still a teenager, provided critical assistance to the Lewis and Clark expedition in their exploration of the Louisiana Territory. A profoundly moving…
    Book, 2023Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2023.
  • Fiction. A vision of the Aztec empire on the verge of conquest. An offbeat, well-turned riff on anti-colonialist themes. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
  • Fiction. Fajardo-Anstine traverses five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the U.S. West through the story of laundress and tea leaf reader Luz "Little Light " Lopez. (Library Journal)
    Book, 2022New York : One World, [2022]
  • Teen nonfiction GN. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These…
    Book, 2020New York : First Second, 2020.
  • Nonfiction graphic novel. An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese…
    Book, 2024New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024]
  • Fiction. A professor unravels a mystery from the darkest depths of the Wild West. A weirdly satisfying and bloody reckoning with some of America’s most shameful history. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.
  • From These Roots

    My Fight With Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

    Lanier, Tamara, 1962-
    Nonfiction. A woman's quest to trace her lineage leads to the discovery of a daguerreotype of her enslaved ancestor, igniting a decade-long legal battle against Harvard over the rightful ownership of historical artifacts and stories tied to…
    Book, 2025New York : Crown, [2025]
  • Fiction. A family’s struggles in Philadelphia are echoed in turmoil in its ancestral Alabama. An affecting and carefully drawn story of a family on the brink. (Kirkus Review)
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
  • Fiction. Moreno-Garcia takes on gothic suspense with a shiver-inducing tale combining touches of Northanger Abbey with bits of the Gormenghast trilogy thrown in for good measure. (Booklist Review)
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020]
  • Fiction. A remarkable debut set in 1990 Lusaka in which a young lawyer fights for the life and rights of a teenage sex worker who is accused of crimes "against the order of nature," in a landmark case that changes Zambian law forever. (NoveList)
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario : Graydon House, [2024]
  • By the Fire We Carry

    the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    Nagle, Rebecca,
    Nonfiction. A Cherokee journalist unpacks the landmark 2020 Supreme Court case that recognized the eastern half of the state of Oklahoma as Indian country. Gripping, infuriating, and illuminating—a valuable corrective to our national ignorance.…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • Fiction. Penelope’s latest historical fantasy after The Monsters We Defy (2022), takes place in the Black southern town of Awenasa and follows Jane, an inquisitive yet doubt-ridden young woman who mainly communicates through ASL. With its foundation…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Redhook, 2024.
  • Fiction. It’s 1973 in Montgomery, Alabama, and when a Black nurse realizes her young patients are being shockingly mistreated, a lawsuit reveals the systemic horror taking place. Vividly highlights the deep and lasting impact of injustice. (Kirkus…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022]