All 56 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2017

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16 Bestselling Fiction

1. In My Father’s House
   by Ernest Gaines (Vintage, 1992-06-30)
2. Breath, Eyes, Memory
   by Edwidge Danticat (Vintage, 1998-05-31)
3. Stand Your Ground: A Novel
   by Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone, 2015-06-01)
4. To Find You
   by Cerece Rennie Murphy (LionSky Publishing, 2016-11-29)
5. Protecting The Heiress (The Blake Sisters)
   by Martha Kennerson (Harlequin Kimani, 2015-07-01)
6. The Perfect Find
   by Tia Williams (Brown Girls Books, 2016-04-12)
7. Provenance: A Novel
   by Donna Drew Sawyer (Creative Cache, 2015-09-16)
8. Tempting the Heiress (The Blake Sisters)
   by Martha Kennerson (Harlequin Kimani, 2016-08-23)
9. Double Down and Dirty
   by L.A. Lewis (L.C.L Publishing, 2016-09-06)
10. The Summer of my Fifteenth Year
    by Geri Spencer Hunter (Blue Nile Press, 2015-06-05)
11. High Cotton: A Novel
    by Darryl Pinckney (Picador, 2017-02-07)
12. Life Is A Canvas
    by Joy Elan (CreateSpace, 2016-01-28)
13. It Should’ve Been Me
    by ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray (Brown Girls Books, 2016-11-16)
14. Forged in Desire (The Protectors)
    by Brenda Jackson (HQN, 2017-01-31)
15. Queen Sugar
    by Natalie Baszile (Knopf, 2014-02-06)
16. Let That Be the Reason
    by Vickie M. Stringer (Atria Books, 2003-03-10)

19 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Hidden Figures
   by Margot Lee Shetterly (William Morrow, 2016-09-06)
2. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
   by Ivan Van Sertima (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003-09-23)
3. Assata: An Autobiography
   by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill & Co, 2001-11-01)
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
   by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz (Ballantine Books, 1987-10-28)
5. I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
   by Luvvie Ajayi (Holt Paperbacks, 2016-09-13)
6. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors
   by Frances Cress Welsing (Afrikan World Books, 2004-12-28)
7. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
   by Michael Eric Dyson (St. Martin’s Press, 2017-01-17)
8. African Holistic Health
   by Llaila Afrika (EWorld Inc, 2004-06-17)
9. The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths, Reclaiming Joy
   by Toby Thompkins (Agate, 2004-10-22)
10. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
    by George G. M. James (Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press, 1992-07-01)
11. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof
    by J. A. Rogers (Helga Rogers, 1980-06-15)
12. The Art of Seduction
    by Robert Greene (Profile Books, 2004-04-01)
13. The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
    by Dick Lehr (PublicAffairs, 2017-01-10)
14. The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
    by James Baldwin and Randall Kenan (Pantheon Books, 2010-08-24)
15. The Souls of Black Folk
    by W.E.B. Du Bois (Dover Publications, 1994-05-20)
16. 10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate From College Debt-Free: A Guide To Post-College Freedom
    by Kevin Y. Brown (Legacy Thinking Labs, 2011-12-04)
17. 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse
    by J.J. Smith (Atria Books, 2014-07-15)
18. Guiou: The Other Blacks, Second Edition
    by Gloria J. Arnold (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, 2014-01-14)
19. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    by Michelle Alexander (The New Press, 2020-01-07)

19 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Chocolate Me!
   by Taye Diggs (Square Fish, 2015-10-06)
2. Sydney Sunshine and the Not-So-Magic Mirror (Volume 1)
   by Sydney McGee (CreateSpace, 2017-02-20)
3. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers
   by Wade Hudson (Just Us Books, 2013-03-13)
4. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
   by Chris Barton (Charlesbridge, 2016-05-03)
5. Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
   by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004-01-01)
6. Max and the Tag-Along Moon
   by Floyd Cooper (Philomel Books, 2013-06-13)
7. One Million Men And Me
   by Kelly Starling Lyons (Just Us Books, 2014-10-15)
8. One Word from Sophia
   by Jim Averbeck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015-06-16)
9. Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
   by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010-02-03)
10. Dancing In The Wings
    by Debbie Allen (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000-09-01)
11. Girl of Mine
    by Jabari Asim (LB Kids, 2010-04-01)
12. Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition
    by Margot Lee Shetterly (HarperCollins, 2016-11-29)
13. I Love My Hair!
    by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2003-11-01)
14. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
    by Ilyasah Shabazz (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014-01-07)
15. Please, Baby, Please
    by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006-04-01)
16. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
    by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003-11-01)
17. She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
    by Audrey Vernick (Balzer + Bray, 2010-10-19)
18. Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
    by Jonah Winter (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009-11-10)
19. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors
    by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld (Candlewick Press, 2012-01-03)

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Thomas and Beulah
   by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986-01-01)
2. Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
   by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2017-01-10)