All 61 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2021
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Raisins in Milk by David Covin
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
- Awaken by Timothy George
- A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
- Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
- The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
- Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
- Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
- Life After Death by Sister Souljah
- The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill
- Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim Fielder
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
- No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness by Hana Ali
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
- Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
- The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway
- A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
- Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed) by Michael Eric Dyson
19 Bestselling Children’s Books
- I Promise by Lebron James
- Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
- I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
- Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
- Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
- She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
- Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
2 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
