Bestselling Books

January/February - 2017

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26 Bestselling Fiction

  1. In My Father’s House by Ernest J. Gaines
  2. Sydney Sunshine and the Not-So-Magic Mirror (Volume 1) by Sydney McGee
  3. Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
  4. Stand Your Ground: A Novel by Victoria Christopher Murray
  5. To Find You by Cerece Rennie Murphy
  6. Protecting The Heiress (The Blake Sisters) by Martha Kennerson
  7. Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
  8. The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
  9. One Million Men And Me by Kelly Starling Lyons
  10. Provenance: A Novel by Donna Drew Sawyer
  11. One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck
  12. Tempting the Heiress (The Blake Sisters) by Martha Kennerson
  13. Double Down and Dirty by L.A. Lewis
  14. Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  15. Dancing In The Wings by Debbie Allen
  16. The Summer of my Fifteenth Year by Geri Spencer Hunter
  17. High Cotton: A Novel by Darryl Pinckney
  18. Girl of Mine by Jabari Asim
  19. It Should’ve Been Me by ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray
  20. Forged in Desire (The Protectors) by Brenda Jackson
  21. I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
  22. Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
  23. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
  24. Let That Be the Reason by Vickie M. Stringer
  25. Life Is A Canvas by Joy Elan
  26. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan

29 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  2. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
  3. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
  4. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
  5. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
  6. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  8. I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
  9. Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome
  10. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  11. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  12. African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
  13. The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths, Reclaiming Joy by Toby Thompkins
  14. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
  15. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers
  16. The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
  17. Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
  18. The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Dick Lehr
  19. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
  20. The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
  21. The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
  22. 10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate From College Debt-Free: A Guide To Post-College Freedom by Kevin Y. Brown
  23. She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick
  24. 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse by J.J. Smith
  25. Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) by Jonah Winter
  26. Guiou: The Other Blacks, Second Edition by Gloria J. Arnold
  27. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  28. What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
  29. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

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