All 107 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2022

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30 Bestselling Fiction

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

30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

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