All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

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