Bestselling Books

March/April - 2021

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36 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  2. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  3. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
  4. Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers
  5. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  6. Lakewood by Megan Giddings
  7. I Promise by Lebron James
  8. Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry
  9. Life After Death by Sister Souljah
  10. Black Bottom Saints (Paperback) by Alice Randall
  11. The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
  12. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  13. Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
  14. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
  15. The Fisher King: A Novel by Paule Marshall
  16. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  17. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
  18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  19. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall
  20. The Pink Panther Clique by Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark
  21. Ori: The Afrikan Warriors’ Mindset by Balogun Ojetade
  22. I Am Enough by Grace Byers
  23. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
  24. Erotique Noire/Black Erotica by Miriam Decosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, and Roseann P. Bell
  25. Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd
  26. Caught Up Loving A Boss by Aisha Hall
  27. Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
  28. Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
  29. Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
  30. !Click Song by John A. Williams
  31. It Doesn’t Take a Genius by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
  32. Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey
  33. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  34. The Other Sister by Donna Hill
  35. Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
  36. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

23 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Black Power, Black Lawyer (paperback): My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  2. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  3. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  4. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  5. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
  6. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
  7. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  8. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  9. The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry
  10. Pillars in Ethiopian History: African History Notebook Vol I by William Leo Hansberry and Joseph E. Harris (editor)
  11. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
  12. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
  13. Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness by Donna Janell Bowman
  14. Jump at the Sun by Alicia D. Williams
  15. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
  16. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  17. Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
  18. Honoring Professor William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965): An Intellectual Libation For The Architect Of America’s African Studies Department by Kaba Hiawatha Kamene
  19. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  20. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  21. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  22. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
  23. The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

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