All 95 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2021

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25 Bestselling Fiction

1. Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
2. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
3. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
4. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
5. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
6. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
7. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
8. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
9. A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
10. The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
11. Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
12. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
13. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
14. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
15. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
16. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
17. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
18. Palmares by Gayl Jones
19. Awaken by Timothy George
20. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
21. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
22. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
23. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
24. Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
25. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

25 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
2. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
3. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
5. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
6. The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
7. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
8. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
9. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
10. No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
12. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
13. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
14. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
15. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
16. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
17. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
18. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
19. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
20. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
21. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
22. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
23. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
24. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
25. Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson

25 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Bunheads by Misty Copeland
2. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
3. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
4. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
5. I Promise by Lebron James
6. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
7. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
8. Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
9. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
10. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
11. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
12. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
13. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
14. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
15. Baby Says by John Steptoe
16. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
17. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
18. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
19. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
20. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
21. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
22. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
23. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
24. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
25. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles

20 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2. The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
3. They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems by Quraysh Ali Lansana
4. Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
5. The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
6. Honoring the Ancestors by James E. Cherry
7. Long Rain by Lenard D. Moore
8. Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
9. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez
10. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
11. I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem by Kalamu ya Salaam
12. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
13. Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
14. The Devil’s Garden by Adrian Matejka
15. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
16. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
17. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
18. Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy
19. The Age of Phillis by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
20. In Shadowed Bliss by Alexander Andrews