Bestselling Books

July/August - 2023

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33 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
  2. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
  3. Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  4. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  5. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  6. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
  7. Baby Bear Board Book by Kadir Nelson
  8. Intermission by Phyllis R. Dixon
  9. Big by Vashti Harrison
  10. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  11. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
  12. Trinity by Zelda Lockhart
  13. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  14. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  15. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  16. Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
  17. Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
  18. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
  19. Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe
  20. Rogue Justice: A Thriller by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
  21. Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
  22. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  23. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
  24. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  25. Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
  26. Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Baraka
  27. I Want to Be Big! by Tiffany Golden
  28. Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole
  29. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
  30. Sex Therapy by Shaun Sinclair
  31. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  32. Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann
  33. A is for Ayiti by Ibi Zoboi

27 Bestselling Nonfiction

  1. In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom by Lacino Hamilton
  2. Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
  3. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
  4. I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud
  5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  6. Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
  7. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
  8. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa
  9. Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  10. Police Brutality: An Anthology by Jill Nelson
  11. Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison
  12. We Flew Over The Bridge: The Memoirs Of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
  13. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  14. Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution by John Henrik Clarke
  15. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
  16. Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches by John Henrik Clarke
  17. Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney by Bill Pinkney
  18. Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
  19. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  20. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success by Jawanza Kunjufu
  21. From The Browder File: 22 Essays On The African American Experience by Anthony Browder
  22. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony Browder
  23. Egypt On The Potomac by Anthony Browder
  24. AFRO-BETS ABC BOOK by Cheryl Willis Hudson
  25. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  26. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
  27. The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron

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