All 70 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2024

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

10 Bestselling Poetry Books

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