All 61 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2021

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

20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill
  2. Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim Fielder
  3. Raisins in Milk by David Covin
  4. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  5. Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
  6. Awaken by Timothy George
  7. A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley
  8. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  9. The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
  10. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
  11. Wimbey’s Corner by David Covin
  12. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  13. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
  14. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
  15. The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
  16. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  17. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
  18. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  19. When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
  20. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  2. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  3. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  4. The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
  5. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
  6. Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed) by Michael Eric Dyson
  7. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  8. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  9. No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
  10. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  11. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  12. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
  13. Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
  14. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  15. At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness by Hana Ali
  16. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  18. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
  19. The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway
  20. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown

19 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
  2. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  3. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  4. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  5. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
  6. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  7. P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
  8. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
  9. She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown
  10. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
  11. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  12. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  13. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  14. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  15. I Promise by Lebron James
  16. Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford
  17. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  18. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  19. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  2. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young