All 43 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2020

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10 Bestselling Fiction

1. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
2. Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
3. Devil In A Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
4. The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
5. Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
6. The Dark Side of Money by d. E. Rogers
7. Zone One: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
8. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
9. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
10. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson

12 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

1. His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
3. The Souls of Black Folk (includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk”) by W.E.B. Du Bois
4. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
5. Across That Bridge by John Lewis
6. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
7. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
8. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
9. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
10. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
11. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
12. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

1. Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
2. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
3. Baby Says by John Steptoe
4. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
5. Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer by Tonya Bolden
6. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
7. Barack Obama: Son Of Promise, Child Of Hope by Nikki Grimes
8. Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
9. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
10. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
11. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
12. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
13. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
14. Daddy Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson
15. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
16. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
17. Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
18. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
19. Dancing In The Wings by Debbie Allen
20. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles

1 Bestselling Poetry Books

1. Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott by Jill Scott