Bestselling Books

Full Year - 2021

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42 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  2. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
  3. Bunheads by Misty Copeland
  4. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
  5. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  6. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  7. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  8. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  9. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  10. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  11. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
  12. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
  13. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  14. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia E. Butler
  15. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  16. Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
  17. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  18. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  19. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  20. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  21. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  22. I Promise by Lebron James
  23. A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
  24. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  25. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
  26. Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
  27. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  28. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  29. The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
  30. Palmares by Gayl Jones
  31. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  32. Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
  33. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  34. Awaken by Timothy George
  35. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
  36. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  37. Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
  38. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  39. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
  40. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  41. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  42. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles

33 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  2. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  3. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  4. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  5. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  6. Black Power, Black Lawyer (paperback): My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  8. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  9. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  10. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  12. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
  13. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  14. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  15. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
  16. The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
  17. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  18. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
  19. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  20. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  21. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  22. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
  23. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  24. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  25. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  26. Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
  27. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
  28. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  29. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  30. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
  31. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  32. No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
  33. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson

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