All 95 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2021

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Click Headings Below for a the List of Bestselling Books with Images. View a collage of these titles.

25 Bestselling Fiction

  1. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  2. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  3. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
  4. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  5. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
  6. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  7. A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
  8. The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
  9. Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
  10. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  11. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
  12. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  13. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
  14. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  15. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  16. Palmares by Gayl Jones
  17. Awaken by Timothy George
  18. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
  19. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  20. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  21. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
  22. Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
  23. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  24. Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
  25. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole

25 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  2. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  3. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  4. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  5. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
  6. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  7. Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
  8. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
  9. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  10. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  12. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  13. The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
  14. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  15. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
  16. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  17. No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
  18. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  19. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  20. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  21. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
  22. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  23. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  24. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  25. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson

25 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  2. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  3. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  4. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  5. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
  6. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  7. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  8. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  9. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  10. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  11. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  12. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  13. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  14. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  15. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  16. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
  17. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
  18. Bunheads by Misty Copeland
  19. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  20. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  21. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
  22. I Promise by Lebron James
  23. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  24. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
  25. Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

20 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
  2. They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems by Quraysh Ali Lansana
  3. Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
  4. The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
  5. Honoring the Ancestors by James E. Cherry
  6. Long Rain by Lenard D. Moore
  7. Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
  8. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez
  9. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  10. I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem by Kalamu ya Salaam
  11. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
  12. Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
  13. The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka
  14. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  15. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
  16. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
  17. Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy
  18. The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  19. In Shadowed Bliss by Alexander Andrews
  20. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine