Bestselling Books

May/June - 2022

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31 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  2. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
  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. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  12. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
  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. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
  17. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
  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. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
  24. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
  25. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
  26. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
  27. I Have a Dream (Picture Book) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  28. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
  29. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
  30. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
  31. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle

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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