All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2021

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14 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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