All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
4. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
5. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
6. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
7. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
8. Kindred by Octavia Butler
9. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
10. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
11. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
12. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
13. I Almost Forgot about You by Terry McMillan
14. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
15. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
16. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
17. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
18. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
19. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
20. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
2. Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
3. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
5. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
6. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
7. My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
8. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
9. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
10. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
11. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
12. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
13. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
14. Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
15. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
16. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
17. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
18. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
19. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
20. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2. Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
3. One Love by Cedella Marley
4. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
5. Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
6. Baby Says by John Steptoe
7. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
8. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
9. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
10. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
11. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
12. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
13. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
14. A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
15. New Kid by Jerry Craft
16. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
17. African by Peter Tosh
18. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
19. Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
20. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
3. Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
4. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
5. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
6. Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith