All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
2. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
3. Wrath by K’wan
4. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
5. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
6. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
7. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
8. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
9. Street Dreams by K’wan
10. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
11. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
12. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
13. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
14. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
15. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
16. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
17. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
18. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
19. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
20. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
2. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
3. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
4. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
5. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
6. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
7. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
8. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
9. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
10. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
11. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
12. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
13. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
14. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
15. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
16. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
17. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
18. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
19. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
20. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
2. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
3. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
5. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
6. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
7. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
8. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
9. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
10. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
11. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
12. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
13. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
14. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
15. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
16. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
17. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
18. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
19. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
20. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
2. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
3. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
4. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa