All 61 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

1 Bestselling Poetry Books

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