Bestselling Books

May/June - 2021

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29 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  2. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  3. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
  4. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  5. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  6. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  7. Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
  8. Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
  9. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
  10. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  11. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  12. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  13. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  14. Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
  15. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
  16. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  17. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  18. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  19. Tears Of A Hustler 2 by Silk White
  20. I Promise by Lebron James
  21. Tears Of A Hustler Pt 3 by Silk White
  22. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  23. A Red Death: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story “Silver Lining” (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
  24. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  25. Black Betty by Walter Mosley
  26. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  27. Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
  28. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  29. Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson

25 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  2. Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
  3. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  4. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  5. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  6. Black Power, Black Lawyer (paperback): My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  7. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  8. Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant
  9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  10. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  11. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  12. We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
  13. Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ with Mother Nature by Dick Gregory
  14. The Art Of Mackin’ by Tariq Nasheed
  15. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  16. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
  17. World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
  18. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill
  19. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
  20. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
  21. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  22. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
  23. Watergate’s Forgotten Hero by Adam Henig
  24. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  25. Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood

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