All 65 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2022
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21 Bestselling Fiction
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- Black Gangster by Donald Goines
- Something On The Side by Carl Weber
- Inner City Hoodlum by Donald Goines
- Dopefiend by Donald Goines
- Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021) by Clarence V. Reynolds
- The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry
- Derelict by Relentless Aaron and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Street Players by Donald Goines
- The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back by Brittani Williams
- When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
- Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany
- Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler
- The Portable Promised Land: Stories by Touré
- Four Degrees of Heat: A Collection of Sexy Summer Escapades by Brenda L. Thomas, Crystal Lacey Winslow, Rochelle Alers, and ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
- Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
- Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
- The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
- Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
- Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
- Decolonising The Mind: The Politics Of Language In African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph
- A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, and Kendall Thomas
- Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty
- Your Purpose Is Calling: Your Difference Is Your Destiny by Dharius Daniels
- The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
- Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
- Introduction to African Civilizations by John G. Jackson
- Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
- White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
- Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman
- Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
- Higher Is Waiting by Tyler Perry
- Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers by Dennis Kimbro
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- One Love by Cedella Marley
- When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
- Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change by Sharee Miller
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson
- The Sweet and Sour Animal Book by Langston Hughes
- Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
- Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
- Nana Akua Goes to School by Tricia Elam Walker
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- The Adventures of Kojo and Ama by Nkechi Taifa
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- Jupiter Storm by Marti Dumas
4 Bestselling Poetry Books
- The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
