21 Bestselling Children’s Books
Period: March/April - 2022
Celebrating books written by or about Black people, the African American Literature Book Club’s Bestsellers List has been published continuously since 1998. In 2026, we began publishing our list quarterly, focusing on The BLK Bestsellers.
Fiction:
Fiction was our top-selling genre this period, with the Fall/Winter 20221 issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters (magazine) and Ladee Hubbard’s The Last Suspicious Holdout being the #1 and #2 bestsellers across all genres. Urban fiction titles experienced stronger sales this period.
Nonfiction:
The 1619 Project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Caste by Isabel Wilkerson have both made AALBC’s bestsellers list 5 times or more.
Children’s Books:
Sales were led by Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams. Nkechi Taifa has three books on the list this period helping to make her a Top 100 AALBC Bestselling Author.
Poetry:
There were not enough poetry book sales to generate a bestsellers list for this period.
