All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022

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30 Bestselling Fiction

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

30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

30 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

17 Bestselling Poetry Books

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