All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022
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30 Bestselling Fiction
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
- Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
- Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
- Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
- Whoreson by Donald Goines
- Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
- The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
- The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
- Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
- One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
- The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
- I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
- Dopefiend by Donald Goines
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- Awaken by Timothy George
- Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
- The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
- Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
- And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 by Al-Saadiq Banks
30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
- Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
- Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
- Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom by Anthony Browder
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- The World History of the Black Race by Clyde Winters
- Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
- Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
- How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
- Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
- All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
- Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
- Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
- Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
- When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
- Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
- The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
- 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
- A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
30 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
- Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
- Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
- Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
- Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
- Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
- Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
- Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
- Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
- The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
- Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
- The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
17 Bestselling Poetry Books
- The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
- Providential by Colin Channer
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two by Jay Wright
- Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
- If God Invented Baseball: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
- When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
- The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
- No Surrender: Poems by Ai Ogawa
- Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
- In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
- How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
- Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series) by Ai Ogawa
- Sin by Ai Ogawa
- The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
