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So many dope books are dropping this week we had to blog about it! Check out We Are LIT's top picks from this week's new releases!

Your To Be Read List just got a little longer! Here are four books to read before the movie adaptation hits theaters later this summer and fall. Check out the books and view the movie trailers.

Summer is here and rather you are traveling afar, planning an exciting staycation, or engaging in some serious armchair wanderlust, We Are LIT has curated 11 books to take you around the world.

New at We Are LIT! Malcolm Hansen makes a bold and stunning arrival on the literary scene with his debut novel, "They Come in All Colors," a coming of age story about a sharp-tongued biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point.

A major literary event! Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. Read more to learn about this extraordinary piece of literary history and order your copy today from We Are LIT!