There have been quite a few new black booktubers joining the community which is lovely!

So so happy to see more melanin on booktube! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

The lack of black Booktubers is so evident to me too! Glad I found this channel 😊 “I don’t know if I was shy or silenced” RESONATED. Some great books I’ve read recently are The Vanishing Half, Rouge by Mona Awad, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I’m Glad My Mom Died, and My Dark Vanessa.

"Just me, sparkles, and Jesus." Mk I love you already. Hi. Welcome!!!

Hey, welcome to the book(tube) community. It’s weird offline and so full of all kinds of surprises online. Interested to see the books you’ll be talking about in the future. ☺️

Hey girl, hey!! Welcome to Booktube. We really do need more POC booktubers. I don't post videos on KZfaq, but I do watch booktube videos. I love reading and I'm getting back into after a long absence due to university. I love reading mystery, romance, and a bit of fantasy. I'm Brenda by the way

You had me at me sparkles and Jesus!! 🤎🤎 hey girl hey!! You’ve motivated me to start booktube!! I’ll get to recording today 🎉

As a chronically online girl that once enjoyed reading but lost the passion for it, I've been enjoying watching booktubers as i try to develop this habit again (which is hard after you condition your brain to enjoy the fast content of social media and video platforms. I have the attention span of a fish with ADHD). I'm so excited to see more of you, i love your vibe and your voice is so calming! I hope the community will welcome you with love.

Your video suddenly popped up on my KZfaq feed and I am so glad that I decided to drop by. I don't watch Booktube Newbie Tag videos because it makes me feel bad that I haven't found the courage to take the plunge and start my own channel for books and reading and literature...

“I exist in two worlds, one with books and one without books. And the one without books is typically the one with food.” We are kindred souls, friend.

Welcome!!!! Red Rising Saga!!!!! Is one of my favorites! I loved Happy Place!

Welcome to booktube! Your tea setup is 🔥🔥🔥 I cannot wait to chat more books with you-happy reading!

This is one of the best booktube newbies tags. Super excited to start looking through your content! *Edit* omg ok you also have travel content that's amazing. Travel and books, girrrrrl! 😍

“Bookworm is the new bougie” I love it.

In addition to those who responded below, there are MANY people of color with KZfaq book channels, as well as some paler folks who are interesting. 😉 I watch book channels from around the world, but just off the top of my head, here are a few you can search and see if you enjoy their taste and content. -ebony kenae -Sincerelyels -Kyrah Stewart -Kat’s Field Notes -sweetly sage -Dolapo Adedokun -thisstoryaintover -Noteworthy Fiction -Dajah’s Book World -Dezmond Zee -tangiblereads -Read Rose TV -Bookish Realm -Books and Bao (for works in translation) -Petrik Leo -booknerd0802 -Quinn’s Ideas -Jesse On KZfaq -LaRosa Reads -Bookd N Brewd -Intentionally Bookish -BookJack (has an eBay used book store.) -Outlaw Book Seller (visits that village of bookshops in England.) -Chocolate Covered Pages -readingwithmo -Rosalie Kenzie -Bez There are SO many! Hopefully I didn’t repeat anyone and you make some friends! Good luck and have a prosperous new year! 😺✌️

There has been a wave of new black booktubers. Which is so exciting, I’ve been one here for 6 years and I’ve seen alot of them be burn out from not getting The same recognition. But yall Are coming in hot with a wave of love for reading and ambition. I think I’ve already commented but welcome to booktube

Welcome to booktube!! Love your positive vibe! ❤

Hello beautiful soul! "Just me, sparkles and Jesus!!" 🤣 Looove!

“I exist in two worlds, one with books and one without books. And the one without books is typically the one with food.”

Really enjoyed your creative, sharp energy. I look forward to following your adventures with books.

Love your energy 🫶 You’re an absolute natural at this, Laolu, so glad I found you! And going “from bookworm to bougie book baddie” - honestly giving me life 🤌

Welcome to Booktube Laolu! Your energy is contagious and kept making me smile 😊 I love the way you talk about books and are already getting so passionate about chatting about them. Very excited to hear your thoughts on books 🥰

Omg Octavia Bulter, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, yessss. Finally found a physical copy of Temple of My Familiar to add to my collection. Will love to see your vids!

You should start a book club and do livestreams to talk about them !! 🫶🏾your so Beautiful 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

I am also very serious about my tea! Welcome to BookTube.

I would highly recommend watching Shawnaci Schroeder as a great black booktuber❤

I really enjoyed this video!! I’m watching a bunch of newbie tagged videos because I want to record my own, and from the tea to your delivery and the way you think…I resonate with you so much! Especially about integration after the book. I also started reading around the same time and you made me wonder what my parents’ reactions were bc the way they tell it they just took it for granted 😂 Anyway, so nice to find you!

I just joined as well! I wish I had a setup as beautiful as yours!!

Welcome to the book community!! You seem like such a nice and genuine person. Hope to see lots of good talk, discussions , recommendations about books. For recommendation i would say "the story of your life and other stories" by ted chiang is one of my favorites, it's sci fi short story collection which is beautifully written, the ideas are so original... Definitely give it a try.

You have such a soothing vibe and I love it! Welcome to the bookish community 🥰

Awww I mentioned my vision board in my newbie video too. I'm in a healing journey as well. Keep up the great content!

Also, not sure if you've watched her content, but I love watching Olivia's Catastrophe, she's a black British woman doing the Booktube and I love her content. She did a lot of bookish discussion on black authors a few years back and I find her a delight to watch and listen to. There are other black booktubers that I regularly watch and follow, but she's the first one that came to mind and I decided to recommend because she's just amazing. One thing I also noticed was that there's a lack of Indigenous booktubers. As somebody who is Indigenous myself, I've been searching and searching for somebody who is an Indigenous voice in the booktube community. I did find someone who I think is native Hawaiian, but I lost her channel when KZfaq did the evil and unsubscribed me from a bunch of random channels in 2020.

Hey bestie 😊 welcome to booktube ! Looooooove your energy ❤

Hey girl!! Definitely considering myself a Bougie Book Baddie. 😮‍💨💗Reading led me to making bookmarks that have been doing so so well and I even started a YT channel recently!! Love this community, and glad you’re here 💗

So happy to find another black booktuber! Btw The skin is skinning ✨crazy how some of our answers to the questions are so similar.

Welcome!!! Love your energy and your book collection ❤ Can’t wait for the next videos

Can’t wait to see and hear more from you and to chat about all sorts of books. I also love asking questions to the books I’m reading. 😊

This video 😻✨✨✨ love love love. I'm so happy to find you (on Nickelle's Nook rec🙏). Have never heard about tsundoku, but dang! So relatable. Thank you for doing this tag. Welcome to Booktube! You'll bring incredible stuff here, I'm sure. Your idea of talking about books connecting to real life is brilliant.❤️ Happy reading!

Lol Girl I be wanting to call my friends and rant about the characters and the book too but they don't read. That's one reason why I started my channel.

Hmmm I wanna read about the history of calculus 😭 so real welcome!!!

I absolutely love this video. You remind me so much of myself. Seriously you do. I am so very very new to the Booktube there is so much I don't know. Like I for real seriously didn't know anything about a challenge. Where do I find it to get the questions. I am so green with this world but I love books and I love to discuss the characters and plot.

I want to start a book tube as well 😅 but scared! Welcome, and happy to see your content

You are so pleasant. Absolutely radiant! I would like to join booktube myself, esp if I could enjoy some virtual company over a cup of tea with people like you. Bougie Bookworms Unite!

Hi, I'm also a black booktuber! So happy to see an increase in black booktubers lately. Also I love tea too

Welcome my dearrrrrr❤ you're lovely! Immediately subscribed. Greetings from Dubai ❤

OMG I grew up on Nancy Drew girl. And the Hrdy Boys, Nora Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, Stephen King duh, and others typically found in the library or giveaway pile. But they are amazing authors.

Your personality is larger than life, and I am here for it!!!! Welcome to BookTube! You're a vibe all by yourself! 👏🏽😄📚

Hi welcome!! You had me at white tea lol I love it too I don't know if you like poetry but my favourite authors are poets: Audre Lorde, Renée Vivien, Langston Hughes but I'm also loving Warsan Shire, Forugh Farrokhzad and Emtithal Mahmoud!!

So glad that we can see more booktubers who are African. Love to be here

as a poc i'm happy more poc are joining! your energy is like soft sunshine laolu 🌞🧡💛🧡💛 so excited to dissect books with you and the bougiee community i spend this year searching black/ native/ poc booktubers and even though i found some, they were few or not gaining visibility compared to white creators.

So, you're my MC. Hi, nice to meet you! Just joined the community.

Hi Laolu! I adored your video and your whole vibe. Interested to see how you implement the applying books you read to real life thing into your videos. Can't wait to see more from you! Welcome to the community and best of luck with the channel 💕

Awesome video 💯‼️ I have ADHD and so I am friends with everyone but have only 2 friends that I don’t see as much because one also has ADHD and the other lives like an hour away and is very busy.

Hey girl, welcome to booktube! I’m not a KZfaqr BUT I am a black girl who reads lol. I share your sentiment about James Baldwin. My fav book is The Fire Next Time! Like you, I’m also a mood reader lol. So excited that I found your channel!

so exciting that you're here, cannot wait to follow along on your journey and talk all things books

Also you asked for a translated work rec. I’ve seen alot of People really enjoy “Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982” I think you’d enjoy it as well saying you want to be a more critical reader verse enjoyment it would Be a great option

You are already fantastic! I'm so glad Elliot shared your video! Can't wait for all your videos!

Subscribed and look forward to your future videos. Welcome!

New subber ❤❤i live the energy so soothing and relaxing

Loving your vibe! Subscribing now. Starting your video and I appreciate the name of your channel as it is reminiscent of the US first lady's that reads like: Becoming Michelle Obama. Her book name is "Becoming". I have also been keen on tea my whole life.

Oohhhh I love applying book knowledge to real life too! It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance 😊

Found you from Elliot Brooks - I agree with a comment below that you have a lovely speaking voice. Looking forward to more videos. I don't have a IRL friend that loves to talk about books as much as me, and I also don't get out much in this season of life because I am a Mom of three little boys aged 2, 4, and 6 and I'm a teacher. So hello online bougie book friends!

as a reader/watcher of booktube, i'm looking forward to your videos! i just finished A Little Life, and right now i'm reading Yellowface 📖

no wait. the whole tea set up is too nice. I am also semi new to to booktube too!!so glad to see so many of us here.

Omg we are truly like minded people yay booktube

That was a lovely video to watch... I think I'm going to really enjoy watching more of your videos. Well done for making this happen for yourself. I've wanted to do Booktube for years, but keep talking myself out of it and have stayed being a lurker and occasional commenter instead! I read almost everything, too...but particularly enjoy weird fiction, translated fiction, Gothic fiction, and a smattering of fantasy. I love books by Julia Armfield, Yoko Ogawa, Paul Auster, Camilla Grudova, Octavia Butler, Robin Hobb, Akwaeke Emezi, Jodi Taylor, An Yu, Shirley Jackson, and NK Jemisin. Welcome! So glad you're here

Bookish is the new bougie!! Thank you. Love your vibe. I’m excited to see more. Your whole tea setup there is giving me serious Gollum vibes. “We needs it precious!” 😂😂 Seriously though…I love tea.

New subscriber! Happy new year 🫶🏾

Oh, KZfaq got this rec right! Looove your vibe. Welcome to the booktube community!!

So glad I found your Booktube channel! I'm definitely a mood reader. Favorite genre Historical Fiction. And I definitely love buying and getting lost in books. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on some amazing books!

If this channel ain't politicised like others I'd give it a shot

Found you from Elliot Brooks's post! I love your vibe! ❤ Can't wait to watch more videos from you. Welcome to Booktube!

Welcome to BookTube! ❤

Hey girl! Just subscribed. Congratulations 🎉. Have a wonderful year! 💯✌🏾🙋🏾‍♀️📚

Hi Laolu! I just found you. I love books and Booktube and am so happy you're here. I'm currently reading everything I can find by James McBride. If you're looking for translated work and like magical realism I really love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is going to be fun. Your energy is so good!

two and a half minutes into the video and I wanna be your friend SO BAD already!! it's the energy for me

Welcome! Glad I stumbled across your channel! It’s still kinda rare to find black book tubers (especially African ones). I’ll read basically anything too but some of my favorite books I read recently are the night circus, the bluest eye, and Shoko’s smile. I’m also currently reading Babel (It’s really good so far!)

I loveee bougie book baddie!!

the whole thing about not being able to fully heal alone is relatable 😅 currently figuring that out myself

Welcome!!! Cannot wait to watch your content this year! Wishing you all the best✨🥰📚

Love your energy ❤❤❤❤

Welcome to booktube 🥰🥰

Honestly comunity is so important and I love that you put yourself out, I would also love to watch you experiment with other types of media.

I’m sending you love! I hope you can make new friends 💜🩷🤞🏾

Welcome! So glad to see you join this community💗

Welcome to booktube!! I relate to reading from a lot of different genres. I can’t wait to watch more of your videos! 💜

Hi! I also gush to non-reader friends 😆Nobody will understand the way another reader would.

welcome to booktube!! i’ve been watching your videos for a while and it’s great to see you’re a book lover 💜💜

Welcome to Booktube! Love your energy, you had me grinning too much whilst watching you. I’m the same when I love a book or character I call up anyone and everyone to talk about it even if they aren’t book people themselves 😂😂 I definitely recommend Madonna in a Fur Coat (translated fiction), Open Water and anything by Bolu Babalola ❤

Yesss! I’ve been trying to find more Black booktubers and i’m so glad i came across you 🙏🏽

Hello. Looking forward to your content. Reading is my favorite hobby. I read diversely as well and enjoy discovering new books and having deep discussions. Happy reading!

Welcome! So happy to have found your channel!❤

I am here nominating myself as a black booktuber to watch. We don’t have a lot of black booktubers from Africa either. I am from South Africa and I know less than 10 South African booktubers

Welcome to booktube! Love seeing more melanin on booktube!

instant subscribe! I've been similar state since moving out of my hometown and resonate/ im excited to see your journey! Love your energy🤩

I read a lot of translated lit too! And i spied The Idiot by Elif Batuman in ur stacks, just read that one a month or two ago. So freakin good! Welcome to the booktube universe, the vibes in this video were on point haha

Glad to stumble across your channel. I love Octavia Butler! I keep meaning to re-read some of her stuff but then read new things instead! C'est la vie. It was lovely to join you over some tea. Very cozy ✨

First of all I just wanted to say you are insanely beautiful😍 I really enjoyed this video!! It’s so nice to see someone new coming onto booktube, I would absolutely love to start but I am so scared! Thank you so much for sharing and I can’t wait to keep up with your videos ❤

Welcome to booktube!! I've been dying to find new creators to follow so I can expand my own bookish tastes so I'm very excited I landed on your channel 🤗

Hiii, welcome to booktube !! I can't wait for your next videos, I love your energy !! ☀️