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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
  2. Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
  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. Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe
  9. The Barber’s Cutting Edge by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
  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. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  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