Beacon Press Has 18 Books with 55 AALBC Bestseller Appearances

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17 Times Bestseller
Cover of Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore MidlifeAge Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
by Carleen Brice
8 Times Bestseller
Cover of KindredKindred
by Octavia E. Butler
6 Times Bestseller
Cover of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about RacismWhite Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
3 Times Bestseller
Cover of PalmaresPalmares
by Gayl Jones
3 Times Bestseller
Cover of Nothing PersonalNothing Personal
by James Baldwin
3 Times Bestseller
Cover of Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
by Sonia Sanchez
2 Times Bestseller
Cover of African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the ShameAfrican Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
by Anne C. Bailey
2 Times Bestseller
Cover of CorregidoraCorregidora
by Gayl Jones
2 Times Bestseller
Cover of Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and ExclusionNot a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on WashingtonNobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington
by Charles Euchner
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a NationThe Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
by Daina Ramey Berry
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of A Black Women’s History of the United StatesA Black Women’s History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of The Unicorn WomanThe Unicorn Woman
by Gayl Jones
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial TraumaLiving While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma
by Guilaine Kinouani
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
by Michael Bronski
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
by Sonia Sanchez
1 Time Bestseller
Cover of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. HistoryInheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
by Thomas Norman DeWolf