All 37 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2023

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10 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. Jackal by Erin E. Adams
  3. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
  4. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  5. Wade in the Water by Nyaneba Nkrumah
  6. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  7. Real Men Knit by K.M. Jackson
  8. When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  9. midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers by Ianna A. Small
  10. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds

10 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  2. Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You by Michael Walrond
  3. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  5. African Pyramids of Knowledge: Kemet, Afrocentricity and Africology by Molefi Kete Asante
  6. Honoring Professor William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965): An Intellectual Libation For The Architect Of America’s African Studies Department by Kaba Hiawatha Kamene
  7. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
  8. Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
  9. Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
  10. BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art by Zaria Ware

10 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
  2. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  3. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  4. An American Story by Kwame Alexander
  5. The Crossover Graphic Novel Signed Edition by Kwame Alexander
  6. We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
  7. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  8. A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor
  9. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  10. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham

7 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems by Anastacia-Reneé
  2. Magic City by Yusef Komunyakaa
  3. The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
  4. Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess
  5. Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  6. Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
  7. Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene