All 56 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2022

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13 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  2. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
  3. Gone Fishin’ by Walter Mosley
  4. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  5. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  6. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  7. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  8. Awaken by Timothy George
  9. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  10. Still Wifey Material (Wifey, Part 4) by Kiki Swinson
  11. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  12. The Between by Tananarive Due
  13. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
  2. Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop
  3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  4. How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
  5. Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music by Cheryl Wills
  6. All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
  7. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 2 by Jawanza Kunjufu
  8. Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
  9. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
  10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  11. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  12. Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa by John Henrik Clarke
  13. Keep On Moving: My Journey in the Fourth Quarter by Ronald Ancrum
  14. To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group by Jawanza Kunjufu
  15. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  16. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown
  17. When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
  18. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  19. Raising Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  20. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
  2. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  3. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  4. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  5. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  6. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  7. Black Brave Beautiful: A Badass Black Girl’s Coloring Book by M.J. Fievre
  8. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  9. Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
  10. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  11. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  12. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  13. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  14. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  15. Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade
  16. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  17. Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo
  18. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  19. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  20. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert

3 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
  2. Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
  3. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman