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Underdog Picks: January 2025

Underdog Bookstore's recommended releases from January 2025, featuring BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other underrepresented voices.

The Life of Herod the Great

A Novel

By: Zora Neale Hurston & Deborah G. Plant
Narrated by: Blair Underwood & Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Greatā€”not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision.In the 1950s, as a continuation ofĀ Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about... Read more

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An Honored Vow

The Halfling Saga: Book #4

By: Melissa Blair
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

This thrilling romantasy about kingā€™s Blade, Keera, and her epic quest to avenge her lover, save her people, and bring down a tyrant king is the final installment of Melissa Blairā€™s highly acclaimed series. The Halfling Saga showcases BIPOC and queer representation, love, passion, betrayal, magic, and great battles of the sword and the... Read more

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The In-Between Bookstore

A Novel

By: Edward Underhill
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

ā€œWhat would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhillā€™s tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope Iā€™ve ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single sitting. A beautiful, thoughtful study of how we find our truest selves, and whom we choose to trust with that gift.ā€Ā ā€”Ā Jodi Picoult, #1Ā New York... Read more

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Reclaiming the Black Body

Nourishing the Home Within

By: Alishia McCullough
Narrated by: Alishia McCullough
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

An essential exploration of the overlooked impact of disordered eating among Black womenā€”and a prescriptive road map to returning to wholeness within our bodies, from the clinical therapist who founded Black and Embodied Counseling and Consulting PLLC

ā€œLights a radical path away from trauma and blame toward healing, self-acceptance and,...
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Isaac's Song

A Novel

By: Daniel Black
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

“Wow, just wow! I donā€™t know how Iā€™m only now discovering the writing of Dr. Daniel Black, but if Isaac's Song is any indication of his talent, I will definitely be adding more of his books to my collection. This novel has such a sense of authenticity; I was captivated from the first page and felt compelled to continue on this journey of healing... Read more

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How We Heal

A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out

By: La June Montgomery Tabron
Narrated by: La June Montgomery Tabron
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

How We Heal is the story of La June Montgomery Tabron's journey from childhood in 1960s Detroit to leading the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Read more

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the space between men

Penguin Poets

By: Mia S. Willis
Narrated by: Mia S. Willis
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

A poetic ethnography thatĀ creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker

"Willisā€™ poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is philosophical, and the space between men is a formidable debut.ā€Ā ā€”Morgan Parker, author of Magical...
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Unassimilable

An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

By: Bianca Mabute-Louie
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

A scholar and activistā€™s brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions.In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca... Read more

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Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Death of the Author is a book within a book. Itā€™s genre-bending. Itā€™s a masterpiece. Itā€™s not what you expect. And it will be hard to beat as my favorite book of 2025! Read more

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Water Moon

A Novel

By: Samantha Sotto Yambao
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao is a gorgeous fantasy novel that just continued to surprise me the whole read through. It doesn't feel like a tense read, and yet so much happens. It's a beautiful examination of regret, and yet not a sad read. I don't have the words to describe what a wonderful, contradictory experience this one is, so do... Read more

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Behind You Is the Sea

A Novel

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Ali Nasser
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

“Each chapter is like opening a new door. Each of the stories is connected, but you experience them individually. As you go further along in the book, it carries on in the timeline, and you see the characters change and read about what happens to the characters over the years. Being Palestinian and Palestinian-American, each chapter addresses the... Read more

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Those Fatal Flowers

A Novel

By: Shannon Ives
Narrated by: E A Castillo
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rageā€”a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes.

Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she lovedā€”Proserpina, the... Read more

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The Rainfall Market

By: You Yeong-Gwang
Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
Length: 6 hours

If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose?

On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the... Read more

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Motheater

By: Linda H. Codega
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: TBA

In this nuanced queer fantasy set amid the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, the last witch of the Ridge must choose sides in a clash between industry and nature.



After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea "Bennie" Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her reputation to uncover whatā€™s killing miners on Kire Mountain. When she... Read more

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I Think They Love You

By: Julian Winters
Narrated by: AndrƩ Santana
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

With his funny, big-hearted adult rom-com debut, bestselling, award-winning YA author Julian Winters shows sometimes fake dating your ex can turn into a second chance. When Denzel ā€œDenzā€ Carterā€™s workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will become his successor. To convince... Read more

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