All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

1. One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
2. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
3. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
4. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
5. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas
6. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
7. The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
8. Hood Rat: A Novel by K’wan
9. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
10. The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
11. Wrath by K’wan
12. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
13. Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
14. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
15. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
16. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
17. Street Dreams by K’wan
18. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia Butler
19. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
20. The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story by Barbara Chase-Riboud

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
2. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
3. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children by Jawanza Kunjufu
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
5. Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
6. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
7. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
8. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
9. The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir by Walter Mosley
10. 200+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color by Jawanza Kunjufu
11. Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams
12. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
13. Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
14. The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry by Chichi Agorom
15. Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
16. Understanding Black Male Learning Styles by Jawanza Kunjufu
17. The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
18. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
19. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
20. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
2. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
3. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
4. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
5. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
6. My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant
7. Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
8. A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
9. Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera
10. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
11. He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands by Kadir Nelson
12. Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps by Charlotte Watson Sherman
13. B Is for Baby (Board Book) by Atinuke
14. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
15. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
16. I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
17. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
19. Baby Goes to Market (Board Book) by Atinuke
20. What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
2. Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
3. The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
4. The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa