All 56 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2022

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13 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

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