All 45 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2024

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15 Bestselling Fiction

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

15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

15 Bestselling Children’s Books

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