All 66 Bestselling Books for July/August - 2023

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20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
  2. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  3. Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Baraka
  4. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  5. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  6. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  7. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  8. Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe
  9. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
  10. Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole
  11. Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann
  12. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  13. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  14. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  15. Rogue Justice: A Thriller by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  16. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  17. Sex Therapy by Shaun Sinclair
  18. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  19. Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
  20. Trinity by Zelda Lockhart

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  2. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  3. The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
  4. Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
  5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  6. Police Brutality: An Anthology by Jill Nelson
  7. Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution by John Henrik Clarke
  8. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success by Jawanza Kunjufu
  9. Egypt On The Potomac by Anthony Browder
  10. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
  11. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
  12. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  13. We Flew Over The Bridge: The Memoirs Of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
  14. Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches by John Henrik Clarke
  15. From The Browder File: 22 Essays On The African American Experience by Anthony Browder
  16. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  17. In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
  18. I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  19. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  20. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
  2. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
  3. A is for Ayiti by Ibi Zoboi
  4. Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
  5. I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
  6. Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
  7. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  8. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  9. AFRO-BETS ABC BOOK by Cheryl Willis Hudson
  10. Big by Vashti Harrison
  11. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  12. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
  13. Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  14. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
  15. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  16. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
  17. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  18. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
  19. Baby Bear Board Book by Kadir Nelson
  20. Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology) by Nikky Finney
  2. So to Speak by Terrance Hayes
  3. Afrodisia;: New poems by Ted Joans
  4. Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
  5. On The Imperial Highway: New And Selected Poems by Jayne Cortez
  6. Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni Asante Lightfoot