All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Wrath by K’wan
- The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
- Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- Street Dreams by K’wan
- Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
- The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
- One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
- Corregidora by Gayl Jones
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
- Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
- Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
- Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
- Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
- The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
- Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
- Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
- The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
- 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
- Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
- PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
- Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
- The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
- Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
- The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
- His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
- Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
- Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
- My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
- Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
- A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
- Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
- He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
- Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
- B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- I Have a Dream (Picture Book) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
- What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
- You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
- Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
4 Bestselling Poetry Books
- The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
- The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
- Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni