Bestselling Books

March/April - 2022

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35 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
  2. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  3. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  4. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  5. The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
  6. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  7. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  8. Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
  9. The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
  10. The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
  11. Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
  12. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  13. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  14. I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
  15. The Hustle Chronicles 3 by Blacc Topp
  16. Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels by Virginia Hamilton
  17. The Hustle Chronicles 2 by Blacc Topp
  18. Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
  19. Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
  20. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  21. Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair
  22. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  23. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  24. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  25. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  26. Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips by Jim Lawrence
  27. The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
  28. Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior
  29. Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
  30. Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic by Kelly Starling Lyons
  31. The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
  32. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
  33. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  34. Don’t Cry For Me by Daniel Black
  35. Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden

27 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  3. You Grow, Gurl! by Christopher Griffin
  4. Love and Justice: A Journey of Empowerment, Activism, and Embracing Black Beauty by Laetitia Ky
  5. Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World by Sam Chege
  6. Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora by Bryant Terry
  7. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (editor)
  8. Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man by Anthony Asadullah Samad
  9. White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret by A. J. Baime
  10. The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
  11. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  12. The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley
  13. You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
  14. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  15. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  16. Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty
  17. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  18. Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth by Clyde W. Ford
  19. The Officer’s Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness by Elle Johnson
  20. Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper
  21. The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
  22. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
  23. Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves by Sana Butler
  24. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  25. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  26. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  27. Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond

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