Amber McBride Books in Order

After losing her family in an accident, Moth meets Sani, a boy struggling with depression and questions about his roots. Their road trip in this verse novel explores ancestry, grief, identity, and a growing connection.

In a future America, a Black girl confined as a biological match for the president's son longs for freedom. In the present, Imogen struggles with pandemic fears and disturbing dreams, linking two stories of trauma, identity, and resistance.

Hospitalized for depression, Whimsy meets Faerry and senses a shared magic and mysterious connection. When his family moves nearby, the two confront a feared forest whose fairy tales and monsters hold clues to their past.

As the civil rights movement reshapes America, young Onyx tries to hide his mother's worsening dementia from authorities. Dreaming of space while fearing foster care, he must find a way to protect his family without facing everything alone.

These poems explore Black womanhood in the American South through ancestry, Hoodoo, tarot, and the supernatural. A chorus of women's voices confronts expectations of obedience, finding strength in trouble, spiritual inheritance, and the refusal to be contained.

Gospel guides the memories of young souls through the Leaving Room after death. When another keeper, Melodee, arrives, their growing love challenges the rules of their work and raises the possibility of finding a way out.