All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

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