15 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

Period: July/August - 2024

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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.

The Killens Review of Arts & Letters, edited by Mudiwa Pettus, makes out fiction list for the 3rd consecutive period. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith, debuts at #1 on our nonfiction list. Our own, Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson, tops our children’s list for the 6th time.

2
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Black AF History

by Michael Harriot
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3
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic

To the Break of Dawn

by William Jelani Cobb
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5
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

The Bodies Keep Coming

by Brian H. Williams
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7
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time

White Boy/Black Girl

by Adaeze and Chad Brinkman
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8
Pleasure: A Woman’s Guide to Getting the Sex You Want, Need and Deserve

Pleasure

by Hilda Hutcherson
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11
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Legacy

by Uche Blackstock
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13
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback

Mdw Dtr

by Jacob Carruthers
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14
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)

Walking with the Wind

by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
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15
The Irritated Genie: An Essay on the Haitian Revolution

The Irritated Genie

by Jacob Carruthers
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