30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

Period: Full Year - 2022

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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.

1
When We Free The World

When We Free The World

by Kevin Powell
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2
Finding Me: A Memoir

Finding Me

by Viola Davis
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3
Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America

Reparations on Fire

by Nkechi Taifa
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4
The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The ISIS Papers

by Frances Cress Welsing
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5
Know Thyself

Know Thyself

by Na’im Akbar
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6
Hebrews to Negroes (paperback): Wake Up Black America!

Hebrews to Negroes (paperback)

by Ronald Dalton Jr.
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7
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The 1619 Project

by Nikole Hannah-Jones
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8
Diamond Doris

Diamond Doris

by Doris Payne
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9
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged

How We Can Win

by Kimberly Jones
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10
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds

White Fear

by Roland S. Martin
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11
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

by Jawanza Kunjufu
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12
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

Allow Me to Retort

by Elie Mystal
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13
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

Miss Chloe

by A.J. Verdelle
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14
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

South to America

by Imani Perry
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15
all about love: New Visions

all about love

by bell hooks
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16
The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk”

The Souls of Black Folk

by W.E.B. Du Bois
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17
From The Browder File Vol Ii: Survival Strategies For Africans In America: 13 Steps To Freedom

From The Browder File Vol Ii

by Anthony Browder
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18
Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream

Power 101

by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber
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19
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Racism Without Racists

by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
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20
The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson
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21
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

Not a Nation of Immigrants

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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22
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry

The Enneagram for Black Liberation

by Chichi Agorom
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23
The World History of the Black Race

The World History of the Black Race

by Clyde Winters
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24
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander
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25
Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children

Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children

by Jawanza Kunjufu
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26
Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s

Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback)

by Marilyn Allman Maye, et al.
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27
Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History

Black History

by Walter Milton, et al.
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28
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization

Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization

by Anthony Browder
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29
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America

A Country of Strangers

by David K. Shipler
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30
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Medical Apartheid

by Harriet A. Washington
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