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Collage of the 98 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2023 — View a List Grouped by Genre

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Click for more detail about Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Click for more detail about Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines
Click for more detail about Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Reneé
Click for more detail about Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Click for more detail about Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
Click for more detail about Blessing The Boats: New And Selected Poems 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton
Click for more detail about Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
Click for more detail about The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power by Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance
Click for more detail about Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
Click for more detail about Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
Click for more detail about Fool Me Thrice: Money Changes Everything by Dean Conan
Click for more detail about Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Click for more detail about Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
Click for more detail about The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
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 A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about I Love My People by Kim Singleton
Click for more detail about Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers by Ianna A. Small
Click for more detail about Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about My Red, White, and Blue by Alana Tyson
Click for more detail about Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
Click for more detail about Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
Click for more detail about New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
Click for more detail about Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
Click for more detail about Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Life On Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
Click for more detail about CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
Click for more detail about Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
Click for more detail about Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
Click for more detail about Black Girls by Dominique Furukawa
Click for more detail about Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews by D. H. Melhem
Click for more detail about It Hurts to Lose a Special Person: Grieving the Death of One You Love by Amy Ross Mumford
Click for more detail about The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
Click for more detail about Dr. No by Percival Everett
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 Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Click for more detail about Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
Click for more detail about Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice by Leon E. Pettiway
Click for more detail about Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
Click for more detail about C is for Curly by Markita Staples-Green
Click for more detail about Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
Click for more detail about Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
Click for more detail about 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Click for more detail about How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Click for more detail about Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan by Eric Holder
Click for more detail about Above Ground by Clint Smith
Click for more detail about An American Story by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
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 How White Folks Got So Rich: The Untold Story of American White Supremacy by Reclamation Project
Click for more detail about Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Sex Therapy by Shaun Sinclair
Click for more detail about Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Click for more detail about On The Imperial Highway: New And Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez
Click for more detail about I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
Click for more detail about The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
Click for more detail about Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Click for more detail about Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
Click for more detail about Mother Love: Poems by Rita Dove
Click for more detail about Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Click for more detail about Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Click for more detail about Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
Click for more detail about In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
Click for more detail about Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove
Click for more detail about The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
Click for more detail about Never As Strangers by Laini Mataka
Click for more detail about Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
Click for more detail about The Coming by Daniel Black
Click for more detail about Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa
Click for more detail about Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
Click for more detail about Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You by Michael Walrond
Click for more detail about Hipology: Horizons in Poetry by Ron Alle and Stella Crews
Click for more detail about Swimming in Cotton by Lawrence Deron Thomas
Click for more detail about The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Click for more detail about Black Poetry by Dudley Randall
Click for more detail about I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins
Click for more detail about Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Click for more detail about Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about Afrodisia;: New poems by Ted Joans
Click for more detail about The Talk by Darrin Bell
Click for more detail about The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
Click for more detail about The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity by Greg Garrett
Click for more detail about Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Click for more detail about Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni Asante Lightfoot
Click for more detail about Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange
Click for more detail about A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor
Click for more detail about Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
Click for more detail about I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden


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