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Collage of the 95  Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2021 — View a List Grouped by Genre

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Click for more detail about I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem by Kalamu ya Salaam
Click for more detail about Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Click for more detail about Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about Life After Death by Sister Souljah
Click for more detail about Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Click for more detail about Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez
Click for more detail about Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy
Click for more detail about Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
Click for more detail about How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
Click for more detail about The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Click for more detail about Whose Knees Are These?  by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Click for more detail about Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
Click for more detail about Bunheads by Misty Copeland
Click for more detail about I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
Click for more detail about The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka
Click for more detail about Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
Click for more detail about Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
Click for more detail about The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Click for more detail about What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Click for more detail about Baby Says by John Steptoe
Click for more detail about The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
Click for more detail about Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
Click for more detail about The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
Click for more detail about How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Click for more detail about The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
Click for more detail about Awaken by Timothy George
Click for more detail about A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Click for more detail about Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
Click for more detail about Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Click for more detail about Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
Click for more detail about Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
Click for more detail about They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Click for more detail about The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
Click for more detail about So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Click for more detail about Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
Click for more detail about Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
Click for more detail about Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
Click for more detail about Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Click for more detail about In Shadowed Bliss by Alexander Andrews
Click for more detail about I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
Click for more detail about A Story About Afiya by James Berry
Click for more detail about Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
Click for more detail about Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
Click for more detail about The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Click for more detail about The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration  by Isabel Wilkerson
Click for more detail about Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
Click for more detail about The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Click for more detail about Honoring the Ancestors by James E. Cherry
Click for more detail about When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
Click for more detail about The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
Click for more detail about Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
Click for more detail about The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
Click for more detail about A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about I Promise by Lebron James
Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
Click for more detail about The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Click for more detail about Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
Click for more detail about Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Click for more detail about Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
Click for more detail about I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
Click for more detail about White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Click for more detail about Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
Click for more detail about Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
Click for more detail about The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
Click for more detail about The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Click for more detail about Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Click for more detail about PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Click for more detail about Palmares by Gayl Jones
Click for more detail about Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
Click for more detail about Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
Click for more detail about Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
Click for more detail about No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Long Rain by Lenard D. Moore
Click for more detail about Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
Click for more detail about Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham


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