All 95 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2021
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25 Bestselling Fiction
- Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
- Palmares by Gayl Jones
- Awaken by Timothy George
- Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
- Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
- When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
- Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
- The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
- Life After Death by Sister Souljah
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
- The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
- Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
25 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
- Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
- PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
- Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
- A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
25 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Bunheads by Misty Copeland
- Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
- I Promise by Lebron James
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
- Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
- I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- A Story About Afiya by James Berry
- Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
- Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
- All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
20 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
- The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
- Honoring the Ancestors by James E. Cherry
- Long Rain by Lenard D. Moore
- Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
- Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez
- Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem by Kalamu ya Salaam
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
- The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
- Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy
- The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- In Shadowed Bliss by Alexander Andrews
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
- They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems by Quraysh Ali Lansana
