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Collage of the 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023 — View a List Grouped by Genre

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Click for more detail about The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
Click for more detail about The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
Click for more detail about Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
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 Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
Click for more detail about I Love My People by Kim Singleton
Click for more detail about The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Click for more detail about So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Click for more detail about A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
Click for more detail about Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
Click for more detail about Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
Click for more detail about midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
Click for more detail about The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
Click for more detail about Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
Click for more detail about The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
Click for more detail about The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
Click for more detail about River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Click for more detail about The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
Click for more detail about Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
Click for more detail about New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
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 Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines
Click for more detail about Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
Click for more detail about Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
Click for more detail about Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford
Click for more detail about Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
Click for more detail about Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
Click for more detail about Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Click for more detail about Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
Click for more detail about Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
Click for more detail about An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
Click for more detail about Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
Click for more detail about Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Click for more detail about Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson
Click for more detail about Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
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 Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Click for more detail about What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter
Click for more detail about Sunlight Through Bullet Holes by jessica Care moore
Click for more detail about Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Click for more detail about The Talk by Darrin Bell
Click for more detail about Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Click for more detail about My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
Click for more detail about Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
Click for more detail about Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin (editor)
Click for more detail about A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
Click for more detail about Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough


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