Riot Headline Book Riot’s 2025 Read Harder Challenge

Backlist To The Future, With Black Female Authors

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Sharifah recommends two great Black female authors of science fiction and fantasy.

This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift!

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.
The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

Books Discussed:

Octavia Butler: Bloodchild and Other Stories

Tananarive Due: Ghost Summer: Stories

Due Interview mentioned: https://locusmag.com/2018/04/tananarive-due-sense-of-mission/