All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Wrath by K’wan
2. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
3. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
4. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
5. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
6. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
7. Street Dreams by K’wan
8. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
9. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
10. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
11. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
12. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
13. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
14. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
15. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
16. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
17. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
18. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
19. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
20. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
2. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
3. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
4. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
5. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
6. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
7. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
8. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
9. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
10. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
11. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
12. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
13. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
14. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
15. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
16. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
17. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
18. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
19. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
20. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
2. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
3. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
4. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
5. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
6. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
7. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
8. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
9. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
10. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
11. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
12. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
13. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
14. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
15. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
16. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
17. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
18. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
19. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
20. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
2. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
3. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
4. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa