All 98 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2023
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25 Bestselling Fiction
- Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
- The Talk by Darrin Bell
- Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
- The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
- Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
- Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
- Swimming in Cotton by Lawrence Deron Thomas
- Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- Sex Therapy by Shaun Sinclair
- Dr. No by Percival Everett
- The Coming by Daniel Black
- Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers by Ianna A. Small
- Jackal by Erin E. Adams
- Fool Me Thrice: Money Changes Everything by Dean Conan
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
27 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
- It Hurts to Lose a Special Person: Grieving the Death of One You Love by Amy Ross Mumford
- Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
- New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
- Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
- Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan by Eric Holder
- A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
- How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
- Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
- Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
- Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice by Leon E. Pettiway
- Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
- CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
- How White Folks Got So Rich: The Untold Story of American White Supremacy by Reclamation Project
- The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power by Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance
- Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
- In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
- The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
- I Love My People by Kim Singleton
- Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You by Michael Walrond
- Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson
- The Gospel according to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity by Greg Garrett
- The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
- Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
25 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
- I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins
- An American Story by Kwame Alexander
- My Red, White, and Blue by Alana Tyson
- A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor
- Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- C is for Curly by Markita Staples-Green
- Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
- Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
- Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
- Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
- Black Girls by Dominique Furukawa
- Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
- The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
- Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
- Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
- I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
- Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman
21 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Mother Love: Poems by Rita Dove
- Afrodisia;: New poems by Ted Joans
- Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews by D. H. Melhem
- Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange
- Never As Strangers by Laini Mataka
- The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
- Blessing The Boats: New And Selected Poems 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton
- Hipology: Horizons in Poetry by Ron Alle and Stella Crews
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
- Black Poetry by Dudley Randall
- Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove
- 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
- Above Ground by Clint Smith
- On The Imperial Highway: New And Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez
- Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Reneé
- Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa
- S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
- Life On Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
- Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
- Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
- Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni Asante Lightfoot
