All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
2. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
3. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
4. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
5. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
6. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
7. Wrath by K’wan
8. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
9. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
10. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
11. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
12. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
13. Street Dreams by K’wan
14. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
15. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
16. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud
17. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
18. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
19. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
20. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
2. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
3. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
4. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
5. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
6. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
7. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
8. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
9. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
10. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
11. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
12. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
13. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
14. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
15. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
16. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
18. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
19. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
20. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
2. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
3. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
4. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
5. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
6. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
7. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
8. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
9. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
11. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
12. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
13. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
14. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
15. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
16. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
17. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
18. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
19. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
20. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
2. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
3. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
4. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes