All 30 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2025

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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. My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift by Harold Phifer
3. Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
4. Fish Tales: A Novel by Nettie Jones
5. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024) by Mudiwa Pettus
6. Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
7. Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange by Imani Perry
8. Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Illustrated Cat Tales by Carl Van Vechten
9. Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
10. Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

10 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
2. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
3. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller
4. Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life by Pamela Ayo Yetunde
5. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
6. Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture by Shirley Neal
7. An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi
8. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
9. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
10. Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big by Will Packer

10 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds
2. Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
3. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
4. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
5. Little Melba And Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
6. And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories by Andrea Davis Pinkney
7. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
8. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
9. How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America by Kwame Alexander
10. Just Imagine…What If There Were No Black People in the World?: Jaxon and Kevin’s Black History Trip Downtown by Tamara Shiloh