Curator of culturally diverse books for all ages.

Welcome to Sscarlet's Web Bookstore! Founded by a passionate book lover, this literary space is dedicated to elevating the voices and experiences of Black, Muslim, Refugee and Immigrant communities. Explore our diverse collection of fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, history, poetry, and more.

If you cherish heartwarming love stories and are eager to learn about different cultures, you’ve found your new favorite spot. Welcome! 📚

Debut Authors This Year!

Not in My Book by Katie Holt

Rosie writes romance novels and listens to Taylor Swift on loop. Aiden is a literary fiction writer who doesn’t believe in happy endings. They’re about to write a book together—what could go wrong?

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Asalma Reads

A place to learn more about me and what I'm passionate about. Here you will find books I'm currently reading, my TBR list and books I've read. You can also follow my reading journey on Instagram & TikTok!

Currently reading!

African Icons by Tracey Baptiste

In this expansive collection of history, meet ten real-life kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa thousands of years ago and changed the world.

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To-Read Pile!

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel’s timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever.

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Read recently!

Only For The Week by Natasha Bishop

The buzzy, viral sensation Only For The Week, is the first book in Natasha Bishop’s The Forever Falling series, featuring Black love, messy family dynamics, sexy banter, and sweet and spicy romance.

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Monthly Picks

Monthly picks from Sscarlet's Web and some of your favorite book clubs!

December pick

By the Fire We Carry

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

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November & December pick

How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.

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October pick

Parable of the Talents

Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel’s timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever.

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2024 TBR List

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy novel inspired by Sense and Sensibility.

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December pick

Red and Lulu & The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

When their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are.

Red and Lulu

Separation and miles cannot keep a determined cardinal from his loved one in an ode to serendipity and belief that is destined to be a Christmas classic.

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November & December pick

Forest of Noise

Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live. Abu Toha’s poems introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent, extraordinary, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.

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November pick

Manboobs

Manboobs is Komail Aijazuddin’s riotous yet intelligent memoir of searching for love, seamlessly blending humor, politics, pop culture, and the bravery required to be yourself. Aijazuddin confidently announces himself as a sharp new voice in humor with his moving, wickedly funny reexamination of the American Dream and our search for home.

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Let Us Descend

Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.

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November pick

We Will Be Jaguars

In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of Amazon Frontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of indigenous peoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.

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