All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
2. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
3. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
4. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
5. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
6. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
7. Wrath by K’wan
8. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
9. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
10. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
11. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
12. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
13. Street Dreams by K’wan
14. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
15. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
16. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
17. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
18. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
19. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
20. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
2. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
3. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
4. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
5. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
6. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
7. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
8. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
9. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
10. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
11. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
12. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
13. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
14. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
15. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
16. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
17. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
18. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
19. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
20. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
2. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
3. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
4. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
5. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
6. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
7. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
8. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
9. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
10. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
11. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
12. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
13. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
15. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
16. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
17. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
18. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
19. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
20. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
2. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
3. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
4. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa