Bestselling Books

May/June - 2022

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28 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  2. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  3. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  4. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  5. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
  6. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
  7. Street Dreams by K’wan
  8. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
  9. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  10. Wrath by K’wan
  11. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia E. Butler
  12. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  13. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas
  14. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
  15. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
  16. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  17. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  18. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
  19. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  20. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  21. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
  22. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  23. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
  24. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
  25. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
  26. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
  27. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
  28. Corregidora by Gayl Jones

31 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
  2. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  3. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  4. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
  5. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
  6. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
  7. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  8. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
  9. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
  10. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
  11. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  12. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  13. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
  14. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
  15. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
  16. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
  17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  18. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  19. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
  20. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
  21. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  22. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  23. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
  24. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
  25. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
  26. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
  27. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
  28. I Have a Dream (Picture Book) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  29. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
  30. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  31. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson

4 Bestselling Poetry

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

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