Bestselling Books

Full Year - 2022

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53 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  2. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  3. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  4. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  5. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  6. Awaken by Timothy George
  7. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  8. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  9. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  10. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
  11. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  12. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  13. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  14. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia E. Butler
  15. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  16. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  17. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  18. Dopefiend by Donald Goines
  19. Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  20. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  21. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  22. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  23. Speaking of Summer: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  24. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  25. Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
  26. The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
  27. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  28. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
  29. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  30. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  31. Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
  32. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  33. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  34. The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
  35. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  36. The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
  37. The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
  38. Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
  39. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  40. I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
  41. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  42. Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
  43. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
  44. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
  45. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  46. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  47. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  48. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  49. And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 by Al-Saadiq Banks
  50. Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
  51. Whoreson by Donald Goines
  52. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  53. Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair

37 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
  2. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  3. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  4. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  5. Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
  6. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  7. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  8. Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
  9. Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
  10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  11. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  12. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
  13. How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
  14. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  15. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  16. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  17. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
  18. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  19. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  20. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  21. all about love: New Visions by bell hooks
  22. The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
  23. From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom by Anthony Browder
  24. Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
  25. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  26. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  27. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  28. Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  29. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
  30. The World History of the Black Race by Clyde Winters
  31. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  32. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  33. 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
  34. Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman
  35. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  36. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
  37. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

17 Bestselling Poetry

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

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