All 70 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2024

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. The Savion Sequence by D. Amari Jackson
2. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
3. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
4. The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé
5. Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley
6. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
9. Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
10. All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
11. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
12. Kaleidoscope by Brenda L. Thomas
13. Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) by John Henrik Clarke
14. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry by Mudiwa Pettus
15. James: A Novel by Percival Everett
16. The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
17. Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
18. Erasure by Percival Everett
19. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
20. A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia Butler
2. Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History by Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) and V. Efua Prince
3. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
5. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams
6. All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
7. Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind by Julius Garvey
8. Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow
9. Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
10. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
12. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane
13. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
14. We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men by Angela P. Dodson
15. African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
16. Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Anthony Hunter
17. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
18. My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown by Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock
19. Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism by Barbara A. Holmes
20. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (9th Edition) by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Big by Vashti Harrison
2. When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant
3. Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows
4. Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Lesle Honore
5. Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
6. The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
7. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
8. The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad
9. American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
10. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
11. My Hair Can by Matt Forté
12. Stacey Speaks Up by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
13. Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
14. William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate
15. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
16. I Would Love You Still by Adrea Theodore
17. Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson
18. The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community by Ibtihaj Muhammad
19. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
20. Ruby René Had So Much to Say by Ashley Iman

10 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte
2. Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
3. Born Palestinian, Born Black: & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad
4. Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
5. 10 Tongues: Poems by Reginald Harris
6. Glory, Too: Poems by Nikki Grimes
7. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 by Audre Lorde
8. Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics by Alicia Keys
9. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
10. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni