All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

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