Bestselling Books

March/April - 2023

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14 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
  2. midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
  3. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  4. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  5. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  6. The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
  7. Swimming in Cotton by Lawrence Deron Thomas
  8. The Coming by Daniel Black
  9. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
  10. Wanda by Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni
  11. Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) by Angela Dews
  12. The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
  13. Stacey’s Remarkable Books by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  14. Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines

16 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  2. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  3. Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
  4. I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer
  5. Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
  6. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  7. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen
  8. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  9. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
  10. Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson
  11. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
  12. We, The Black Jews: Witness To The ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth, Volumes I & II by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
  13. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  14. Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You by Michael Walrond
  15. A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music by Jabari Asim
  16. all about love: New Visions by bell hooks

5 Bestselling Poetry

  1. Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange
  2. Never As Strangers by Laini Mataka
  3. 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
  4. 360° A Revolution of Black Poets by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander
  5. Above Ground by Clint Smith

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