All 66 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2020
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Small Silent Things by Robin Page
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- I Almost Forgot about You by Terry McMillan
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
- Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
- Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
- Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
- The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
- Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Baby Says by John Steptoe
- Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol
- African by Peter Tosh
- Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- One Love by Cedella Marley
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Sing to the Moon by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
6 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
- Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Counting Descent by Clint Smith
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
- The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine