All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

18 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

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