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Bestselling Books

January/February - 2022

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27 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  2. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  3. Still Wifey Material (Wifey, Part 4) by Kiki Swinson
  4. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  5. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
  6. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  7. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  8. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  9. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  10. Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo
  11. Gone Fishin’ by Walter Mosley
  12. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  13. Awaken by Timothy George
  14. The Between by Tananarive Due
  15. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  16. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  17. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  18. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  19. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  20. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  21. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  22. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  23. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  24. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  25. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  26. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  27. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa

25 Bestselling Nonfiction

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

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