30 Bestselling Nonfiction Books for Full Year - 2022

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#2

Book cover of Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Finding Me

by Viola Davis

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#4

Book cover of The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing

The ISIS Papers

by Frances Cress Welsing

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#5

Book cover of Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar

Know Thyself

by Na’im Akbar

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#7

Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project

by Nikole Hannah-Jones

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#9

Book cover of How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones

How We Can Win

by Kimberly Jones

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#10

Book cover of White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin

White Fear

by Roland S. Martin

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#13

Book cover of Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle

Miss Chloe

by A.J. Verdelle

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#18

Book cover of Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber

Power 101

by Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber

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#19

Book cover of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Racism Without Racists

by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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#24

Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

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#27

Book cover of Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History by Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman

Black History

by Walter Milton, et al.

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#30

Book cover of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid

by Harriet A. Washington

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