All 62 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2021

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

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