All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

6 Bestselling Poetry Books

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