All 66 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2023

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20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  2. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  3. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  4. Rogue Justice: A Thriller by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  5. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  6. Sex Therapy by Shaun Sinclair
  7. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  8. Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
  9. Trinity by Zelda Lockhart
  10. Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
  11. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  12. Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Baraka
  13. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  14. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  15. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  16. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  17. Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe
  18. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
  19. Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole
  20. Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Egypt On The Potomac by Anthony Browder
  2. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
  3. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
  4. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  5. We Flew Over The Bridge: The Memoirs Of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
  6. Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches by John Henrik Clarke
  7. From The Browder File: 22 Essays On The African American Experience by Anthony Browder
  8. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  9. In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
  10. I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  11. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  12. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  13. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  14. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  15. The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
  16. Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
  17. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  18. Police Brutality: An Anthology by Jill Nelson
  19. Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution by John Henrik Clarke
  20. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success by Jawanza Kunjufu

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  2. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
  3. Baby Bear Board Book by Kadir Nelson
  4. Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  5. Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
  6. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
  7. A is for Ayiti by Ibi Zoboi
  8. Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
  9. I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
  10. Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
  11. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  12. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  13. AFRO-BETS ABC BOOK by Cheryl Willis Hudson
  14. Big by Vashti Harrison
  15. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  16. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
  17. Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  18. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
  19. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  20. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology) by Nikky Finney
  2. So to Speak by Terrance Hayes
  3. Afrodisia;: New poems by Ted Joans
  4. Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
  5. On The Imperial Highway: New And Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez
  6. Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni Asante Lightfoot