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Collage of the 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022 — View a List Grouped by Genre

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Click for more detail about The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
Click for more detail about If God Invented Baseball: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
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 Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
Click for more detail about Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
Click for more detail about Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
Click for more detail about Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
Click for more detail about Providential by Colin Channer
Click for more detail about The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two by Jay Wright
Click for more detail about The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
Click for more detail about Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Click for more detail about Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
Click for more detail about Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Click for more detail about Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
Click for more detail about Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
Click for more detail about The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Click for more detail about The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
Click for more detail about The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Click for more detail about Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley
Click for more detail about The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Click for more detail about All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
Click for more detail about Awaken by Timothy George
Click for more detail about A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
Click for more detail about Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
Click for more detail about And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 by Al-Saadiq Banks
Click for more detail about In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
Click for more detail about One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
Click for more detail about The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
Click for more detail about Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
Click for more detail about When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Dopefiend by Donald Goines
Click for more detail about Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Click for more detail about Beloved by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
Click for more detail about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Click for more detail about No Surrender: Poems by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
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 Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
Click for more detail about Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
Click for more detail about Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
Click for more detail about Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
Click for more detail about I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
Click for more detail about Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
Click for more detail about The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
Click for more detail about Whoreson by Donald Goines
Click for more detail about Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
Click for more detail about The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
Click for more detail about Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
Click for more detail about Sin by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
Click for more detail about Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
Click for more detail about The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
Click for more detail about South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Click for more detail about Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Click for more detail about Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Click for more detail about Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
Click for more detail about Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Click for more detail about The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about The World History of the Black Race by Clyde Winters
Click for more detail about Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
Click for more detail about Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Click for more detail about Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
Click for more detail about Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Click for more detail about Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
Click for more detail about The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
Click for more detail about How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
Click for more detail about Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
Click for more detail about The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Click for more detail about Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Click for more detail about When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
Click for more detail about From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom by Anthony Browder
Click for more detail about Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
Click for more detail about Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
Click for more detail about Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
Click for more detail about Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
Click for more detail about The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Click for more detail about Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series) by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about Kindred by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
Click for more detail about Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Click for more detail about The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
Click for more detail about Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
Click for more detail about The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Click for more detail about Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
Click for more detail about Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
Click for more detail about Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
Click for more detail about Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa


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