All 42 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2021

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Click Headings Below for a the List of Bestselling Books with Images. View a collage of these titles.

8 Bestselling Fiction

  1. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
  2. The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens
  3. Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
  4. Dopefiend by Donald Goines
  5. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  6. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  7. Evil Never Sleeps: Tales of Light and Darkness by Robert Fleming
  8. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes

15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  2. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  3. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  4. Great Negroes: Past and Present: Volume Two by Jawanza Kunjufu, Erica Myles, and Nichelle Wilson
  5. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
  6. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
  7. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
  8. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  9. Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
  10. Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook by Michael W. Twitty
  11. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  12. The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
  13. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  14. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  15. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

18 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
  2. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  3. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  4. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  5. Carla and Monica’s Safari of a Lifetime by Monica R. Guillemin and Carla McMichael
  6. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  7. Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson
  8. Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
  9. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
  10. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
  11. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  12. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
  13. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  14. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  15. Do Not Disturb! Meditating… by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  16. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  17. Little Lion Goes to School by Kellie Magnus
  18. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim

1 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young