All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022

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30 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
  2. Dopefiend by Donald Goines
  3. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  4. Awaken by Timothy George
  5. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  6. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  7. Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  8. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  9. The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
  10. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
  11. And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 by Al-Saadiq Banks
  12. Kindred by Octavia Butler
  13. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  14. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  15. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
  16. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  17. Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
  18. Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
  19. Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
  20. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
  21. Whoreson by Donald Goines
  22. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  23. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  24. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
  25. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  26. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  27. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
  28. The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
  29. I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
  30. Beloved by Toni Morrison

30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  2. Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
  3. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
  4. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  5. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  6. From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom by Anthony Browder
  7. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  8. The World History of the Black Race by Clyde Winters
  9. Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
  10. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  11. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  12. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  13. Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
  14. How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
  15. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
  16. All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
  17. Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
  18. Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  19. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  20. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  21. When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
  22. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  23. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  24. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  25. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  26. The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
  27. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  28. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
  29. 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
  30. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler

30 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
  2. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  3. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  4. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  5. The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
  6. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  7. The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
  8. Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
  9. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  10. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  11. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  12. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  13. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  14. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  15. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  16. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  17. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  18. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  19. Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
  20. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  21. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  22. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  23. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  24. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  25. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  26. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  27. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  28. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  29. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  30. Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery

17 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
  2. Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
  3. In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
  4. How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  5. Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series) by Ai Ogawa
  6. Sin by Ai Ogawa
  7. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
  8. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
  9. Providential by Colin Channer
  10. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
  11. The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two by Jay Wright
  12. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  13. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  14. If God Invented Baseball: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  15. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  16. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
  17. No Surrender: Poems by Ai Ogawa