All 62 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2021

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20 Bestselling Fiction

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

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