Bestselling Books

May/June - 2020

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34 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  2. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  3. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  4. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  5. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
  6. Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
  7. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  8. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  9. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
  10. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  11. Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
  12. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  13. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  14. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
  15. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
  16. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
  17. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  19. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  20. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  21. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  22. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
  23. New Kid by Jerry Craft
  24. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  25. Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
  26. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
  27. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
  28. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
  29. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
  30. I Almost Forgot about You by Terry McMillan
  31. One Love by Cedella Marley
  32. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  33. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  34. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

24 Bestselling Nonfiction

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

8 Bestselling Poetry

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

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