All 62 Bestselling Books for March/April - 2022

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18 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
  2. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
  3. Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
  4. I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
  5. Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
  6. Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
  7. Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
  8. Don’t Cry For Me by Daniel Black
  9. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  10. The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
  11. The Hustle Chronicles 3 by Blacc Topp
  12. Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair
  13. Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips by Jim Lawrence
  14. The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
  15. The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
  16. Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
  17. The Hustle Chronicles 2 by Blacc Topp
  18. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson

23 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

21 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  2. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
  3. Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
  4. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  5. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  6. Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
  7. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  8. Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper
  9. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  10. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  11. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  12. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  13. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  14. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  15. Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic by Kelly Starling Lyons
  16. Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden
  17. Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior
  18. The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
  19. The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
  20. Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels by Virginia Hamilton
  21. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o