Bestselling Books

July/August - 2020

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35 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Black States of America: Real Black Power by d. E. Rogers
  2. Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari Asim
  3. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  4. Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
  5. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  6. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
  7. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  8. Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
  9. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  10. The Stolen Daughter by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
  11. Different and the Same by Adijah & Atiya Brabham
  12. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
  13. It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
  14. You Can Do It! by Tony Dungy
  15. I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo and Diane Dillon
  16. An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
  17. Small Silent Things by Robin Page
  18. Bright Eyes, Brown Skin by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
  19. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  20. Baby Says by John Steptoe
  21. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
  22. Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
  23. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
  24. March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
  25. Blessings: A Novel by Sheneska Jackson
  26. Black Mother Goose Book by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
  27. Whore (Triple Crown Publications Presents) by Tanika L. Lynch
  28. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
  29. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  30. Binti (#1) by Nnedi Okorafor
  31. Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  32. The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
  33. Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
  34. The Great Migration: Journey To The North by Eloise Greenfield
  35. A Hustler’s Wife (Urban Books) by Nikki Turner

25 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
  2. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  3. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  5. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
  6. The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  8. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
  9. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  10. Across That Bridge by John Lewis
  11. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  12. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
  13. His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
  14. Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
  15. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
  16. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  17. Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers by Wade Hudson
  18. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America by Claud Anderson
  19. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  20. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  21. Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
  22. Book of Letters by Mary J. Taylor
  23. Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  24. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
  25. The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop

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