All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
- River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
- Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
- midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
- Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
- Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines
- The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
- Jubilee by Margaret Walker
- What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter
- Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
- The Talk by Darrin Bell
- Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
- The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
- Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
- The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
18 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
- Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
- I Love My People by Kim Singleton
- An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
- Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford
- Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin (editor)
- White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
- The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
- New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
- The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
- A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
14 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
- Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
- Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
- Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
- A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
- Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson
- Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
- Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
2 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Sunlight Through Bullet Holes by jessica Care moore
- Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
