All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022

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30 Bestselling Fiction

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

30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

30 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

17 Bestselling Poetry Books

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