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18 Bestselling Fiction Books

Period: September/October - 2019

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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.

Children’s books outsold all other categories this period. The #1 bestselling book this period is the awarding winning I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t by Leo & Diane Dillon. Wonderfully illustrated and “Brimming with joy and enthusiasm, Zoe playfully explores all the things she can be. A world of opportunities are within her reach, from becoming an archeologist to becoming U.S. President!’

Fiction sales were led by the final book in the Wolf Queen series, The Promise of Aferi. The author, Cerece Rennie Murphy, brings us another epic fantasy/historical novel.

Nonfiction sales was led by Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy Leary. Originally published in 2005 this book helps us understand the generational, epigenetic and genetic, influences on our psyches after hundreds of years of extreme trauma.

Not enough poetry books were sold to generate a bestsellers list, however A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib and the National Book Award finalist, The Tradition by Jericho Brown, sold this period and are worth checking out.

1
The Wolf Queen: The Promise of Aferi Book II

The Wolf Queen

by Cerece Rennie Murphy
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2
Chocolate Me!

Chocolate Me!

by Taye Diggs
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2
Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery

Good Man Gone Bad

by Gar Anthony Haywood
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3
Sulwe

Sulwe

by Lupita Nyong’o
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3
Kehinde

Kehinde

by Buchi Emecheta
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4
Boonoonoonous Hair

Boonoonoonous Hair

by Olive Senior
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4
Krik? Krak!

Krik? Krak!

by Edwidge Danticat
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5
Sing to the Moon

Sing to the Moon

by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
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6
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Crown

by Derrick Barnes
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7
I Am Loved

I Am Loved

by Nikki Giovanni
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9
Black Mother Goose Book

Black Mother Goose Book

by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
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10
Daddy Calls Me Man

Daddy Calls Me Man

by Angela Johnson
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11
Mommy’s Khimar

Mommy’s Khimar

by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
13
My Friend Maya Loves To Dance

My Friend Maya Loves To Dance

by Cheryl Willis Hudson
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16
We Came to America

We Came to America

by Faith Ringgold
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