Bestselling Books

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37 Bestselling Fiction

  1. When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant
  2. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry by Mudiwa Pettus
  3. The Savion Sequence by D. Amari Jackson
  4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  5. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
  6. I Would Love You Still by Adrea Theodore
  7. James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  8. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  9. Company: Stories by Shannon Sanders
  10. Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung by Nkechi Taifa
  11. The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
  12. Big by Vashti Harrison
  13. Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson
  14. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
  15. Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré
  16. All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
  17. Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
  18. My Hair Can by Matt Forté
  19. The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole
  20. The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  21. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  22. Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  23. Erasure by Percival Everett
  24. Stacey Speaks Up by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  25. Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley
  26. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
  27. The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  28. Kaleidoscope by Brenda L. Thomas
  29. The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
  30. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle by Clarence V. Reynolds
  31. Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams
  32. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee by Clarence V. Reynolds
  33. Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) by John Henrik Clarke
  34. Ruby René Had So Much to Say by Ashley Iman
  35. A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom by Leonce Gaiter
  36. Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim
  37. A Mercy by Toni Morrison

23 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History by Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao) and V. Efua Prince
  2. American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
  3. Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
  4. Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Anthony Hunter
  5. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  6. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
  7. Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows
  8. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  9. The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant
  10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  11. My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown by Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock
  12. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams
  13. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane
  14. Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism by Barbara A. Holmes
  15. all about love: New Visions by bell hooks
  16. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
  17. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (9th Edition) by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  18. Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind by Julius Garvey
  19. We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men by Angela P. Dodson
  20. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler
  21. Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow
  22. African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
  23. William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate

10 Bestselling Poetry

  1. Born Palestinian, Born Black: & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad
  2. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992 by Audre Lorde
  3. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
  4. Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene
  5. Tears for Water: Poetry & Lyrics by Alicia Keys
  6. The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte
  7. 10 Tongues: Poems by Reginald Harris
  8. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
  9. Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai Ogawa
  10. Glory, Too: Poems by Nikki Grimes

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