All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2021

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14 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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