All 42 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2021
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8 Bestselling Fiction
- Dopefiend by Donald Goines
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Evil Never Sleeps: Tales of Light and Darkness by Robert Fleming
- Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
- The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
- Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
- The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
- Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
- Great Negroes: Past and Present: Volume Two by Jawanza Kunjufu, Erica Myles, and Nichelle Wilson
- Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
- The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
- Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
- Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
- Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook by Michael W. Twitty
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
18 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Do Not Disturb! Meditating… by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Little Lion Goes to School by Kellie Magnus
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
- Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
- Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
- Carla and Monica’s Safari of a Lifetime by Monica R. Guillemin and Carla McMichael
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson
- Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
- Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
- Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
- Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
- Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
1 Bestselling Poetry Books
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young
