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Bestselling Books

May/June - 2023

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30 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  2. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  3. Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
  4. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
  5. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  6. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
  7. Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
  8. Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
  9. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  10. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  11. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
  12. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  13. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  14. A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
  15. The Talk by Darrin Bell
  16. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  17. Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
  18. Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines
  19. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  20. Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
  21. Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
  22. midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
  23. Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson
  24. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  25. The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
  26. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  27. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
  28. Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
  29. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
  30. What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter

20 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  2. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  3. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
  4. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  5. The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
  6. Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
  7. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  8. Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
  9. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  10. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  11. An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
  12. Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
  13. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  14. CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
  15. Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford
  16. My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
  17. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  18. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  19. Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin (editor)
  20. The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

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