18 Bestselling Fiction
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
- The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
- Streets Have No King by JaQuavis Coleman
- The Hustle Chronicles by Blacc Topp
- Gage: The Hustle Chronicles Prequel by Blacc Topp
- I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
- The Hustle Chronicles 3 by Blacc Topp
- The Hustle Chronicles 2 by Blacc Topp
- Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair
- Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel by April Sinclair
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
- Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips by Jim Lawrence
- The Old Drift: A Novel by Namwali Serpell
- Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
- The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard
- In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
- Don’t Cry For Me by Daniel Black
23 Bestselling Nonfiction
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- You Grow, Gurl! by Christopher Griffin
- Love and Justice: A Journey of Empowerment, Activism, and Embracing Black Beauty by Laetitia Ky
- Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World by Sam Chege
- Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora by Bryant Terry
- Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (editor)
- Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man by Anthony Asadullah Samad
- White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret by A. J. Baime
- The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
- The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley
- You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
- Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty
- Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth by Clyde W. Ford
- The Officer’s Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness by Elle Johnson
- The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
- Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves by Sana Butler
- Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond
21 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
- Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
- Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
- The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
- Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels by Virginia Hamilton
- Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- Boonoonoonous Hair by Olive Senior
- Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper
- Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic by Kelly Starling Lyons
- Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
- Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden
