24 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

Period: March/April - 2010

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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.
1
Brainwashed

Brainwashed

by Tom Burrell
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2
Confessions of a Video Vixen

Confessions of a Video Vixen

by Karrine Steffans
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3
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife

Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number

by Carleen Brice
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4
The Vixen Diaries

The Vixen Diaries

by Karrine Steffans
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5
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color

Acts of Faith

by Iyanla Vanzant
6
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting

Black Pain

by Terrie Williams
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7
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

by John Henrik Clarke
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8
The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

The Destruction of Black Civilization

by Chancellor Williams
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9
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream

Forced into Glory

by Lerone Bennett
10
Great Speeches By African Americans: Frederick Douglass

Great Speeches By African Americans

by James Daley
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11
Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter

by Maya Angelou
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12
The African American Writer’s Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print

The African American Writer’s Handbook

by Robert Fleming
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13
This Year You Write Your Novel

This Year You Write Your Novel

by Walter Mosley
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14
That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir

That Mean Old Yesterday

by Stacey Patton
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15
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
16
Tough Notes: A Healing Call For Creating Exceptional Black Men

Tough Notes

by Haki Madhubuti
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17
Wendy’s Got the Heat

Wendy’s Got the Heat

by Wendy Williams
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18
Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir

Brothers and Keepers

by John Edgar Wideman
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19
Howard Street: A Pittsburgh Story

Howard Street

by Thomas E. Scholler Sr.
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19
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Speak, So You Can Speak Again

by Lucy Hurston
20
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

Digging

by Amiri Baraka
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21
America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans

America Behind The Color Line

by Henry Louis Gates, et al.
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22
Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing

Stop Being Niggardly

by Karen Hunter
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23
Sistahfaith: Real Stories Of Pain, Truth, And Triumph

Sistahfaith

by Marilynn Griffith
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