25 Bestselling Children’s Books

Period: Full Year - 2023

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Celebrating Black stories and authors since 1998, the AALBC Bestsellers List is now published quarterly. Here’s a printable list and collage of this period’s titles. Also check out the BLK Bestsellers—the definitive monthly guide to America’s bestselling books by Black writers.

These books are the bestsellers of all our bestselling books for entire year! The newest book considered was Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice by Leon E. Pettiway (Dec 14, 2023). The oldest was No Place to be Somebody: A Black-black Comedy (1969) by Charles Gordone.

1
Jelani’s Key

Jelani’s Key

by D. Amari Jackson
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2
An American Story

An American Story

by Kwame Alexander
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4
Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day

Repeat After Me

by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
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5
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold

Treasure Island (hardcover)

by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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6
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

The Hill We Climb

by Amanda Gorman
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7
Black Girls

Black Girls

by Dominique Furukawa
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8
Black Mother Goose Book

Black Mother Goose Book

by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
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9
Something, Someday

Something, Someday

by Amanda Gorman
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10
The Making of Butterflies

The Making of Butterflies

by Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
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12
Cornrows (2023)

Cornrows (2023)

by Camille Yarbrough
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13
Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson
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14
Dream Big, Little Leader

Dream Big, Little Leader

by Vashti Harrison
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15
Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung

Shining Legacy

by Nkechi Taifa
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16
C is for Curly

C is for Curly

by Markita Staples-Green
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17
I Am Every Good Thing

I Am Every Good Thing

by Derrick Barnes
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20
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin

Bright Eyes, Brown Skin

by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
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21
I Want to Be Big!

I Want to Be Big!

by Tiffany Golden
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23
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll

Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar

by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
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24
Nigeria Jones

Nigeria Jones

by Ibi Zoboi
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25
Remember Us

Remember Us

by Jacqueline Woodson
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