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

25 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

20 Bestselling Poetry Books

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