All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
3. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
7. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
9. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
10. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
11. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
12. Kindred by Octavia Butler
13. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
14. I Almost Forgot about You by Terry McMillan
15. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
16. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
17. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
18. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
19. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
20. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
2. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
3. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
5. Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
6. Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
7. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
8. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
9. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
11. My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
12. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
13. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
14. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
15. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
16. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
17. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
18. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
19. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
20. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
2. New Kid by Jerry Craft
3. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
4. Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
5. One Love by Cedella Marley
6. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
7. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
8. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
9. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
10. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
11. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
12. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
13. A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
14. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
15. African by Peter Tosh
16. Baby Says by John Steptoe
17. Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
18. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
19. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
20. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
2. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
3. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
4. Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
5. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
6. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine