All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
4. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
5. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
6. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
9. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
10. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
11. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
12. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
13. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
14. Kindred by Octavia Butler
15. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
16. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
17. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
18. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
19. I Almost Forgot about You by Terry McMillan
20. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
2. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
5. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
6. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
7. Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
8. Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
9. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
10. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
11. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
12. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
13. My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
14. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
15. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
16. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
17. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
18. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
19. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
20. Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
2. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
3. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
4. A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
5. New Kid by Jerry Craft
6. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
7. African by Peter Tosh
8. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
9. Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
10. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
11. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
12. Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
13. One Love by Cedella Marley
14. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
15. Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
16. Baby Says by John Steptoe
17. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
18. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
19. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
20. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
2. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
3. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
4. Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
5. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
6. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange