All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023

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Click Headings Below for a the List of Bestselling Books with Images. View a collage of these titles.

20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  2. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
  3. What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter
  4. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  5. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  6. The Talk by Darrin Bell
  7. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  8. The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
  9. Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
  10. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  11. Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
  12. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  13. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  14. midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
  15. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  16. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
  17. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  18. Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
  19. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  20. Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines

18 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  2. My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
  3. The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
  4. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  5. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
  6. Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
  7. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  8. CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
  9. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  10. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  11. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  12. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  13. An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
  14. Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford
  15. Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin (editor)
  16. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  17. The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
  18. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke

14 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  2. Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
  3. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  4. Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
  5. Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
  6. Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
  7. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
  8. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
  9. Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
  10. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  11. A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
  12. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
  13. Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
  14. Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Sunlight Through Bullet Holes by jessica Care moore
  2. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman