Bestselling Books

January/February - 2021

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35 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  2. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
  3. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
  4. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  5. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
  6. Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
  7. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  8. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  9. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  10. Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
  11. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  12. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  13. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  14. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  15. Awaken by Timothy George
  16. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  17. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
  18. P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
  19. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  20. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  21. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
  22. A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
  23. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
  24. I Promise by Lebron James
  25. Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill
  26. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  27. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  28. She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown
  29. The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
  30. Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford
  31. Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim Fielder
  32. The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
  33. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  34. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  35. Raisins in Milk by David Covin

23 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  2. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  3. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  4. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  5. At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness by Hana Ali
  6. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  7. No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
  8. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  9. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  10. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  12. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  14. The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
  15. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
  16. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  17. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
  18. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
  19. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
  20. 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
  21. Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed) by Michael Eric Dyson
  22. Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
  23. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown

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