All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

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