All 61 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2020
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Binti (#1) by Nnedi Okorafor
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
- Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
- New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
- The Stolen Daughter by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Whore (Triple Crown Publications Presents) by Tanika L. Lynch
- A Hustler’s Wife (Urban Books) by Nikki Turner
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
- Small Silent Things by Robin Page
- Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
- Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
- PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
- Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
- The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Across That Bridge by John Lewis
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Book of Letters by Mary J. Taylor
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
- Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
- Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
- Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
- Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
- March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
- A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
- Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
- The Great Migration: Journey To The North by Eloise Greenfield
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
1 Bestselling Poetry Books
- The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
