All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2021

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14 Bestselling Fiction

  1. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  2. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  3. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
  4. Tears Of A Hustler Pt 3 by Silk White
  5. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  6. Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
  7. Magic City: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  8. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  9. A Red Death: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story “Silver Lining” (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
  10. Harlem Hit & Run by Angela Dews
  11. Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
  12. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
  13. Tears Of A Hustler 2 by Silk White
  14. Black Betty by Walter Mosley

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  3. Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
  4. We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
  5. The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno
  6. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
  7. Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood
  8. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
  9. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  10. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  11. Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ with Mother Nature by Dick Gregory
  12. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
  13. Watergate’s Forgotten Hero by Adam Henig
  14. World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
  15. Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise
  16. Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
  17. Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
  18. The Art Of Mackin’ by Tariq Nasheed
  19. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K. Hill
  20. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  2. Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant
  3. A Story About Afiya by James Berry
  4. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  5. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
  6. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  7. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  8. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  9. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  10. I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
  11. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  12. Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
  13. Papa’s Free Day Party by Marilyn Nelson
  14. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  15. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  16. Opal’s Greenwood Oasis by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
  17. I Promise by Lebron James
  18. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
  19. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
  20. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver