All 56 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2022

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Click Headings Below for a the List of Bestselling Books with Images. View a collage of these titles.

13 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

3 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
  2. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  3. Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam