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Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She’s a Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for her adult fiction, which has appeared in a variety of print and online publications.

Her books for young readers have received Walter Dean Myers Award Honors, and been recognized as a Bram Stoker Award winner, an Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist, an Ignyte Award winner, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 5,635 ratings · 1,303 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	Root Magic 4.20 avg rating — 3,434 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychopomp & Circumstance 3.79 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conjure Island 4.16 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror 4.08 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creepening of Dogwood House 3.87 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror 4.39 avg rating — 62 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hollow Tongue (Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena #5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forever Vacancy: A Colors in Darkness Anthology by Eden Royce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kenya Moss-Dyme (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mya Lairis (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All The Haunts Be Ours: A Folk Horror Storybook by Eden Royce (Goodreads Author), Kim Newman, Cynthia Pelayo (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Lost, I Found: Stories 4.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Eden Royce answered Jennifer Michael's question: Do you plan to keep writing for young people? We just finished reading Root Magic with our 10-year-old son, and can't wait to see more from you. I must apologize - I've only just seen this question and it's from so long ago! So delighted to hear your son enjoyed ROOT MAGIC! I hope you've seen that I have published another kid's novel, CONJURE ISLAND last year and in five days, I'll be publish See Full Answer
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“Gran used to say hurt wasn’t like a splinter that might work itself out after a while, it was a boil that had to be lanced—the hurt had to leak out before it could heal up.”
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“All skin folk ain’t kinfolk.”
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“If no one tells the stories anymore, if no one learns the magic anymore, our ways will disappear from the world. Then all we’ll have is what other people think of us.”
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Black History Month Readathon
Please DO NOT vote for a book already listed!
Instead write in books that have some sort of a tie to Black history, Black identity, have a Black protagonist or were written by a Black author.
Read the rules for what book you can recommend in the comments below

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

2 votes, 13.3%

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

2 votes, 13.3%

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (write-in)

2 votes, 13.3%

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

1 vote, 6.7%

The North Star by Kat Shepherd

1 vote, 6.7%

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

1 vote, 6.7%

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston (write-in)

1 vote, 6.7%

The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

1 vote, 6.7%

Root Magic by Eden Royce (write-in)

1 vote, 6.7%

Blended by Sharon M. Draper (write-in)

1 vote, 6.7%

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (write-in)

1 vote, 6.7%

Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon (write-in)

1 vote, 6.7%

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

0 votes, 0.0%

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

0 votes, 0.0%

Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant (write-in)

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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (write-in)

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March: Book One by John Lewis (write-in)

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Blended by Sharon M. Draper

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Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

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Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

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Me by Amber McBride

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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore

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The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

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The Curie Society by Heather Einhorn

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Wings of Ebony by J. Elle

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Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

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Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

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When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten

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Slay by Brittney Morris

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Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

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The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

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I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest

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