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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

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