All 70 Bestselling Books for Full Year - 2024
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) by John Henrik Clarke
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024) by Mudiwa Pettus
- James: A Novel by Percival Everett
- The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
- Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter
- The Savion Sequence by D. Amari Jackson
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
- The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé
- Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
- All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
- Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
- Kaleidoscope by Brenda L. Thomas
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
- The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams
- All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
- Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind by Julius Garvey
- Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow
- Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
- Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
- We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men by Angela P. Dodson
- African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
- Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Anthony Hunter
- Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
- My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown by Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock
- Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism by Barbara A. Holmes
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (9th Edition) by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia Butler
- Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History by Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) and V. Efua Prince
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
- I Would Love You Still by Adrea Theodore
- Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson
- The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community by Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Ruby René Had So Much to Say by Ashley Iman
- Big by Vashti Harrison
- When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant
- Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows
- Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré
- Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
- The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad
- American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
- My Hair Can by Matt Forté
- Stacey Speaks Up by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
- William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate
10 Bestselling Poetry Books
- The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 by Audre Lorde
- Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics by Alicia Keys
- Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
- The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
- The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte
- Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
- Born Palestinian, Born Black: & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad
- Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
- 10 Tongues: Poems by Reginald Harris
- Glory, Too: Poems by Nikki Grimes
