All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022

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30 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  2. Awaken by Timothy George
  3. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  4. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  5. Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  6. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  7. The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
  8. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
  9. And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 by Al-Saadiq Banks
  10. Kindred by Octavia Butler
  11. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  12. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  13. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
  14. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  15. Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
  16. Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
  17. Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
  18. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
  19. Whoreson by Donald Goines
  20. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  21. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  22. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
  23. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  24. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  25. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
  26. The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
  27. I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
  28. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  29. Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
  30. Dopefiend by Donald Goines

30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
  2. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
  3. All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
  4. Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
  5. Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  6. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  7. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  8. When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
  9. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  11. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  12. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  13. The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
  14. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  15. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
  16. 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
  17. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
  18. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  19. Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
  20. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
  21. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  22. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  23. From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom by Anthony Browder
  24. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  25. The World History of the Black Race by Clyde Winters
  26. Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
  27. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  28. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  29. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  30. Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.

30 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  2. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  3. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  4. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  5. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  6. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  7. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  8. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  9. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  10. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  11. Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
  12. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  13. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  14. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  15. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  16. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  17. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  18. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  19. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  20. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  21. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  22. Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  23. Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
  24. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  25. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  26. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  27. The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
  28. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  29. The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
  30. Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola

17 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
  2. Providential by Colin Channer
  3. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
  4. The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two by Jay Wright
  5. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  6. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  7. If God Invented Baseball: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  8. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  9. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
  10. No Surrender: Poems by Ai Ogawa
  11. Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
  12. Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
  13. In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
  14. How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
  15. Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series) by Ai Ogawa
  16. Sin by Ai Ogawa
  17. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa