All 42 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2021

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8 Bestselling Fiction

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

15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

18 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

1 Bestselling Poetry Books

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