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Bestselling Books

September/October - 2021

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35 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  2. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
  3. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  4. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  5. Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) by Angela Dews
  6. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  7. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  8. Crossing Color Lines by d. E. Rogers
  9. A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
  10. Palmares by Gayl Jones
  11. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
  12. Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper
  13. The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
  14. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  15. The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  16. Animal by K’wan
  17. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema
  18. Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
  19. The Between by Tananarive Due
  20. Ananse And The Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings
  21. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
  22. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
  23. Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
  24. A Death in Harlem: A Novel by Karla FC Holloway
  25. Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing
  26. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  27. Corregidora by Gayl Jones
  28. Where’s Rodney? by Carmen Bogan
  29. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
  30. Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway
  31. Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
  32. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
  33. I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
  34. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  35. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim

25 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  2. Sacred Nile by Chester Higgins, Jr.
  3. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  4. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
  5. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  6. West African Folk Tales (African American) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
  7. Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle
  8. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  9. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  10. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler
  11. Grandma’s Records by Eric Velasquez
  12. Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
  13. Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change by Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown
  14. Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country by Atinuke
  15. Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
  16. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  17. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  18. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
  19. Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
  20. Algorithms Of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
  21. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
  22. The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered] by Charles E. Jones
  23. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
  24. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  25. World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers

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