All 62 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2021

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20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway
  2. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
  3. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  4. Palmares by Gayl Jones
  5. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  6. The Between by Tananarive Due
  7. A Death in Harlem: A Novel by Karla FC Holloway
  8. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
  9. Kindred by Octavia Butler
  10. Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) by Angela Dews
  11. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  12. Animal by K’wan
  13. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  14. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  15. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  16. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  17. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  18. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
  19. Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
  20. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
  2. Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
  3. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  4. The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered] by Charles E. Jones
  5. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  6. Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle
  7. Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
  8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  9. Algorithms Of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
  10. World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
  11. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  12. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
  13. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  14. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
  15. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  16. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
  17. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  18. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
  19. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  20. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
  2. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  3. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  4. Ananse And The Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings
  5. Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
  6. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
  7. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  8. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  9. West African Folk Tales (African American) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
  10. Grandma’s Records by Eric Velasquez
  11. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  12. Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing
  13. Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
  14. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
  15. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  16. Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
  17. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema
  18. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  19. Where’s Rodney? by Carmen Bogan
  20. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
  2. Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy