All 47 Bestselling Books for November/December - 2021

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Click Headings Below for a the List of Bestselling Books with Images. View a collage of these titles.

15 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Dopefiend by Donald Goines
  2. Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
  3. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  4. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  5. The Broken King by Michael Thomas
  6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  7. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  8. Palmares by Gayl Jones
  9. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
  10. Rosie’s Curl and Weave by Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason, and Francis Ray
  11. Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism And Beyond by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall
  12. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  13. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  14. In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
  15. Another Country by James Baldwin

15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
  2. Spike by Spike Lee
  3. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  4. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns
  5. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
  6. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  7. Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century by Monique W. Morris
  8. Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI by Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones
  9. The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry
  10. The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing by Tracy Snipe with Sarah Collins Rudolph
  11. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
  12. Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson
  13. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
  14. Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America by Michael Eric Dyson
  15. The Three Mothers (Hardcover) by Anna Malaika Tubbs

15 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  2. Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
  3. Three Tales of Wisdom by Nkechi Taifa
  4. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  5. Alice in Wonderland Remixed by Marlon McKenney
  6. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  7. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  8. I Love My Haircut! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
  9. New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set by Jerry Craft
  10. Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  11. Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
  12. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  13. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  14. Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  15. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes
  2. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman