All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2021

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14 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  2. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  3. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
  4. Tears Of A Hustler Pt 3 by Silk White
  5. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  6. Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
  7. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  8. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  9. A Red Death: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story “Silver Lining” (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
  10. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
  11. Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
  12. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  13. Tears Of A Hustler 2 by Silk White
  14. Black Betty by Walter Mosley

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Watergate’s Forgotten Hero by Adam Henig
  2. World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
  3. Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
  4. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  5. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  6. The Art Of Mackin’ by Tariq Nasheed
  7. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill
  8. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  9. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  10. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  11. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  12. We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
  13. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  14. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
  15. Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood
  16. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  17. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  18. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  19. Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ with Mother Nature by Dick Gregory
  20. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
  2. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  3. Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant
  4. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  5. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  6. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
  7. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  8. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  9. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  10. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  11. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  12. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  13. Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
  14. Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson
  15. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  16. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  17. Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
  18. I Promise by Lebron James
  19. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  20. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson