All 64 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2022

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

4 Bestselling Poetry Books

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