All 62 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2021
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20 Bestselling Fiction
- Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway
- Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
- Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
- The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
- Corregidora by Gayl Jones
- Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
- Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
- Palmares by Gayl Jones
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Between by Tananarive Due
- A Death in Harlem: A Novel by Karla FC Holloway
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
- Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) by Angela Dews
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Animal by K’wan
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
- Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
- The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
- A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
- Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Algorithms Of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
- New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
- Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered] by Charles E. Jones
- Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
- Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler
- Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
- Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
20 Bestselling Children’s Books
- Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
- Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing
- I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
- A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
- The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
- Ananse And The Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings
- Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
- Where’s Rodney? by Carmen Bogan
- I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
- Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- West African Folk Tales (African American) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
- Grandma’s Records by Eric Velasquez
- Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
- Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
- Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
- Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
- Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
- Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema
2 Bestselling Poetry Books
- Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
- Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy
