The best new books out this week 📚
 Hello, book lovers! Each week, dozens of new releases hit the shelves. Here are our favorites. ❤️📚 –The BuzzFeed Books team
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 Credit: Harper The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
From an award-nominated poet comes a fiction debut in epic proportions. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl has carried the weight of scholar W.E.B Du Bois' Problem of race in America on her shoulders. The descendant of enslaved Georgians and named after two Black Americans, Ailey thinks of Du Bois' words often. Ailey spends her summers in a small town in Georgia, surrounded by history — both her own trauma and that of her family's. In order to finally find herself and her place in the world, Ailey sets off on a journey through her ancestry and finds shocking stories of generations past, both Black, white, and Indigenous. But for Ailey to embrace her full heritage would mean embracing a past of oppression, resistance, cruelty, and resilience and the true song of America itself. —Kirby Beaton
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 Credit: Grand Central Publishing, Delacorte, Margaret K. McElderry Books Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
Readers who fell in love with Hollow Kingdom will not be disappointed by book two, which centers on the crow S.T. and his human nestling Dee. S.T. had high hopes of Dee reenacting everything awesome about being human, but instead, Dee is drawn to the natural world and considers it her family. When the changed ones realize an unchanged human is alive, they begin to hunt her. S.T. must overcome his reluctance to team up with the animal kingdom if he wants to protect his nestling. Meanwhile, it might be Dee, who grew up on stories of Dennis the hero, who holds the key to saving the animal kingdom. S.T.'s struggles with parenting are both humorous and heart-wrenching in this powerful follow-up. —Margaret Kingsbury
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Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
This riveting contemporary YA fantasy left me in tears many times. Sixteen-year-old Katrell can bring ghosts back to life by writing them letters, but only briefly — long enough to speak with their loved ones before they fade away again. She hires out her abilities and uses the money from this gig along with her job at a fast-food joint to pay for pretty much everything because her gaslighting mother, who brings abusive men home, doesn't work. Thankfully, Katrell has an amazing BFF to lean on. Then Katrill's magic suddenly shifts, and she's able to bring back the dead for good. At first, she happily resurrects the dead and rakes in cash, but the resurrections take their toll on her health, and the people she brings back aren't quite the same. This novel is an intense read from start to finish. —Margaret Kingsbury
Get it from Bookshop or a local indie via Indiebound here. Vampires, Hearts, and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston
Since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV, Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead, even when the vampires were driven back into hiding. After her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Victoria is determined to find a vampire so that she can become one and save her dad. With the help of her estranged best friend Henry, she heads to New Orleans, where she meets Nicholas. Before he can potentially give her what she desires, she'll need to prove she loves life enough to live forever, even if the challenges feel like a betrayal while her father is dying. If you love when a book reaches out from the pages and grabs your heart tightly, you need to pick this one up. —Rachel Strolle
Get it from Bookshop or from your local indie at Indiebound here.
 Credit: Dial Books Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas
Finch Kelly wants to come in first in the National Speech & Debate Tournament, which he's certain will make a good impression as he aspires to attend college in Washington, DC. Plus? He plans on having a history-making career as the first trans congressman. The only thing standing in his way? His crush on his (gay, taken) debate partner, Jonah. Even more, the topic for this year's Nationals is transgender rights, leaving Finch to argue against his own humanity. This coming-of-age romance poignantly depicts self-discovery and finding your place in the world. —Farrah Penn
Get it from Bookshop or your local indie through Indiebound here.
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