Bestselling Books

May/June - 2022

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32 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. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
  9. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
  10. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
  11. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
  12. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  13. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  14. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
  15. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
  16. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
  17. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
  18. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  19. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  20. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
  21. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
  22. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
  23. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  24. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
  25. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
  26. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
  27. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
  28. I Have a Dream (Picture Book) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  29. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
  30. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
  31. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  32. 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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