All 45 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2024

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15 Bestselling Fiction

1. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
2. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
3. A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
4. The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
5. Fences (1950s Century Cycle) by August Wilson
6. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024) by Mudiwa Pettus
7. Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
8. Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
9. Butterfly Bitch! by Wahida Clark and Michael A. Robinson
10. Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt by Danielle Spencer
11. The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé
12. All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
13. The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
14. Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe
15. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote

15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
2. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams
3. Pleasure: A Woman’s Guide to Getting the Sex You Want, Need and Deserve by Hilda Hutcherson
4. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock
5. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
6. To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic by William Jelani Cobb
7. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall (Editors)
8. The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth by Damian Chandler
9. What Your Mother Never Told You about S-E-X by Hilda Hutcherson
10. The Irritated Genie: An Essay on the Haitian Revolution by Jacob Carruthers
11. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith
12. The Essential Kerner Commission Report by William Jelani Cobb
13. White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time by Adaeze and Chad Brinkman
14. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith
15. Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback by Jacob Carruthers

15 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Hair Love ABCs by Matthew A. Cherry
2. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
3. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
4. The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson
5. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
6. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
7. AFRO-BETS ABC BOOK by Cheryl Willis Hudson
8. This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
9. A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
10. Black Star by Kwame Alexander
11. Imbila’s Tale: An English/Zulu Flipbook for Children by Desaray Mnyandu
12. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
13. Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
14. Out of My Dreams by Sharon M. Draper
15. Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Freedom by Aaron G. Jahi