All 62 Bestselling Books for September/October - 2021

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

20 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

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

20 Bestselling Children’s Books

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

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

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