All 61 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Binti (#1) by Nnedi Okorafor
  2. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  4. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
  5. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  6. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
  7. The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
  8. Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
  9. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
  10. The Stolen Daughter by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
  11. An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
  12. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  13. Whore (Triple Crown Publications Presents) by Tanika L. Lynch
  14. A Hustler’s Wife (Urban Books) by Nikki Turner
  15. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  16. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  17. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
  18. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
  19. Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
  20. Beloved by Toni Morrison

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  2. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  3. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  4. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  5. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  6. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
  7. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
  8. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  9. Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
  10. The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
  11. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  12. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  13. Across That Bridge by John Lewis
  14. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
  15. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  16. Book of Letters by Mary J. Taylor
  17. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  18. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  19. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  20. His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
  2. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  3. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  4. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  5. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  6. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
  7. The Great Migration: Journey To The North by Eloise Greenfield
  8. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  9. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
  10. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  11. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  12. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
  13. Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  14. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
  15. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  16. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  17. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  18. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
  19. March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
  20. Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen

1 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton