Octavia Butler may be the author for you! She’s the OG Black sci fi author. As far as I’m aware all or most of her books are sci fi and/or dystopian and feature Black women

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No literally why are all these grown adults writing primarily teenager characters??? Like mid 20s would be nice

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Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jeminson

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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 👀

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I feel like you may need to partake in some of nk jemisin’s work. May I recommend the broken earth trilogy to start and the city we became if you’re into urban fantasy?

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Might be borderline, but The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winters. The mc is like 18-19 at the beginning but iirc the book covers a little bit of time and he ends in his 20s. It’s also not written like ya though and I think it’s still good regardless

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Not Greatly Explicitly Black mc but heavily implied: Ancillary Justice and the rest of the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie have this

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