Hi guys, it's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe. And today I'm here to do a
video where I recommend six black booktubers to you. And I'll also be
recommending them and you guys, six black
books which are either new releases or
are going to be coming out very very
soon.
It means that I haven't read these books
myself but all of these are books that I
want to read. And I want to give you
books that you can read now but also
books that you can read a bit later on
down the line when they come out. So that
you can keep supporting black authors. All of these booktubers are either ones
I've known for quite a while or they are
ones that have recently -- that I've
recently stumbled on. And I've been
enjoying their videos. And they should
all be under a thousand subscribers so
do go and show these small book tubers
some love. The idea for this video was
from How to Train your Gavin. Gavin did a
video where he mentioned eight black
book tubers and I think it was a great
way to show support. I just want to pay
it forward and pass along my support to
some other black book tubers and black
authors at the same time. So the first
book tuber that I want to recommend to
you is Luxurious Blu. Shane has some
really really good videos. He's someone
I've just recently discovered and I
really love the way he talks about books
in detail and also how he talks about
the community. And he's just very upfront
and honest and I really appreciate that.
So you should definitely go and check
out his videos. And for him I'm
recommending The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. And this is one waiting for me on
my Kindle and I cannot wait to read it. It's also Pride Month in June so I tried
to include as many intersectional black
books as I possibly could. The Black
Flamingo is about this boy who is a
mixed-race gay teen. And he is just
trying to come to terms with what that
means for himself and he wants to feel
better connected to himself. And like,
find his own identity. And when he goes
to university he ends up blending in
with this group of drag queens. And he
really finds himself in the drag
community there. And it's just about him...
it's basically an origin story of a drag
queen and it sounds like it's gonna be
great. It's also a novel in verse and I
really have been enjoying those a lot
lately. So I cannot wait to get to this one and
I think Luxurious Blu might enjoy it
too. The next black booktuber I'd like
to recommend to you is
Thistle & Verse. She reads a lot of science
fiction and also some fantasy and I
really enjoy all of her review videos.
She goes into a lot of detail and they're
just enjoy to watch. I would recommend to
her The Song of Wraiths and Ruin which just
sounds absolutely fantastic. This one is
by Rosanne A. Brown and is the first book
in what is going to be a duology. It's
based on West African folklore and we
follow these two characters. One of them
is a princess who is grieving and the
other is a refugee. And in some kind of
situation they end up paired against
each other and trying to murder each
other. So if you like that kind of
enemies murdery actiony kind of book
but also with the emotions of a grieving
princess underneath, I think this might
be one for you. And it sounds like it's
gonna be one for me. The next book that
I'm gonna recommend to you is Tea Time with T Reads. And Tolani is someone who
I've just recently got to know and I'm
really enjoying her videos. She reads a
lot of different books so I think she
goes into young adult, but she's also got
some new adult romance in there. And I'm
gonna recommend her a new adult romance
book. And that one is going to be called
Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera. I've read
nearly all of Adriana Herrera's books
and I really just really love her
romances. And in this one we're going to
be following these two men who have a
romantic story set in Ethiopia, I believe. And one of them is someone who's
struggling to reconcile their past and
their history but they end up going to
Ethiopia to do just that. And the other
one lives in Ethiopia and would be like,
dumb if he didn't take this job offer
that he's got in the US. But he's really
struggling with the idea of leaving
behind his home and his community and
where he feels like he belongs. These two
people cross paths and I think there's
gonna be a romance. There's going to be a
lot of unpacking some emotional pasts
and futures and that's what Adriana
Herrera really does well in some of her
other books as well. So I'm very much
looking forward to reading that. If you
check out her back list she's got other
m/m romances and she's also got an F/F
novella. And I think she's got another
book but I just don't know about that
one yet. Then I'm gonna recommend KJ
from Opalescent. KJ reads so much. She
reads like, adult fiction, young adult,
manga, graphic novels. And she doesn't
only make
bookish videos. I've seen videos about
drawing, I've seen videos about art, and
I've also seen videos about anime. So if
you like any of those things you might
enjoy some of her videos. She's just a
really great presence and for her I'm
going to be recommending Clap When You
Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. This one
is absolutely everywhere. We know
Elizabeth Acevedo but we're still
going to read her next book because it
also sounds pretty fantastic. This is a
novel in verse and it follows these two
girls who live in different places. And a
plane crashes which has their father on
it. And up until that point they didn't
realise that they had the same father.
So in this grieving process, and when
they're both grieving they get to
realise they have a new sister. And
they're trying to find their way and
navigate through this new discovery and
these emotions that they are feeling. And
it's told in dual perspective. Again, as
I've already said, I'm loving novels in
verse and this sounds like it's gonna be
such a good read. Then I'm gonna
recommend Tin from Tin Minute Book Reviews. She does very in detail book reviews and
she reads very diversely. She reads middle grade as well as young
adult and adult. So a little bit of
everything. We love that. We love to see
it. For her I'm gonna recommend Felix
Ever After. I don't know if this is quite
in her category but it might be
something that she might want to branch
into. This is one that I've actually
started reading today even though it
wasn't my TBR. But yes, this one is Felix
Ever After by Kacen Callender. And in
this one we follow a transgender queer
black man. And he just wants to find love
and feel love but what happens is at the
school where either he works or goes, I'm
not entirely sure
from the synopsis, somebody leaks a
pre-transition photo and things end up
spiraling from there. I haven't read that
many trans narratives and I am very much
looking forward to reading more of that
because I also need to work on educating
myself. And I'm very much looking forward
to reading this one and well, getting
deeper into it. And last but not least I
want to recommend R. Alexandria. So what she
does is she does book reviews but she
also pairs it with food and it's called
Falvour and Fiction. And she takes
something inspired from the novel and
then she will make it. So, for example, she
recently did one about A Raisin in the Sun.
And in this book they mention eggs so
she made a devilled egg recipe
and she gives you the recipe and shows
you how to cook it while she also talks
about the book. And for her, she reads a
lot of adult works as far as I can see,
and I think that she would also enjoy
this one. Which is called Black Sunday by
Tola Rotimi Abraham. And this one is
set in Lagos, Nigeria and we're following
a family unit. There's a mum, a dad and
twins. And when the mum recently loses
her job and the dad keeps on gambling
away the family's money and the family
starts to get interested in this church
which seems to be a bit on the cult-like
side,
the twins are wondering how are they
going to navigate the financial problems
that they are experiencing. And whether
the church is going to be a big part of
their life or not. I feel like this could
be a very interesting one. It's always
good to get books that are set outside
of the US and the UK because lots of
books often set there. And I feel like it
could really do something interesting
about church communities maybe
cults. We'll see. I am very curious to
read this book and see what I think of
it. So there you have it. Those are six
books that I really want to get to. They're
recommendations if you're looking for
more black books with black characters
by black authors, and they're also some
black book tubers you should definitely
check out. I'll have links to all of them
down below. I also want to do a little
bit of housekeeping. So I do bulk film my
videos and I filmed them ahead of time.
I've got all of my videos for June
pre-filmed and ready to go out. And I
think I'm going to keep posting because
editing and putting videos out there is
just one of the ways that I relax. I
enjoy doing it and it's good for
escapism and getting my mind off of
things. If you want to escape into some
of those videos that are coming that
will not be mentioning the events that
are happening at the moment, feel free to
do so in June. All of my videos are going
to have in in the description box down
below, links to places that you can
donate. And links to resources in the
description box of this video. I'm going
to be linking all of those booktubers.
I'm also going to be linking some other
black booktubers who have other
resources that you can use so you can
definitely check them out for more
recommendations. And a buddy read that Shae
is doing. And various other things! I'll
link that all down below though. Thank
you for watching this one and
let me know in the comment section down
below if there are any other black book
tubers who are small, who are big, that I
need to be watching and checking out. That other people need to be watching
and checking out. Let's support them in
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