All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

18 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

14 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

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