All 56 Bestselling Books for January/February - 2022
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13 Bestselling Fiction
- The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Awaken by Timothy George
- Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Still Wifey Material (Wifey, Part 4) by Kiki Swinson
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- The Between by Tananarive Due
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
- Gone Fishin’ by Walter Mosley
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa by John Henrik Clarke
- Keep On Moving: My Journey in the Fourth Quarter by Ronald Ancrum
- To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group by Jawanza Kunjufu
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown
- When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- Raising Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
- Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
- The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
- Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
- Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music by Cheryl Wills
- All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) by bell hooks
- Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. 2 by Jawanza Kunjufu
- Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
- Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- Black Brave Beautiful: A Badass Black Girl’s Coloring Book by M.J. Fievre
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
- Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy by Misty Copeland
- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
- Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
- Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade
- Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
- Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
3 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context by Kalamu ya Salaam
- Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected by Haki Madhubuti
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
