30 Bestselling Fiction Books for Full Year - 2022

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#1

Running to Fall

by Kalisha Buckhanon

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#2

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021)

by Clarence V. Reynolds

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#3

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson

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#4

The Great Mrs. Elias

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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#5

Awaken

by Timothy George

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#6

Our Gen

by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

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#7

The Quarter Storm

by Veronica G. Henry

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#8

Captain Blackman

by John A. Williams

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#9

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set

by Octavia Butler

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#10

The Last Suspicious Holdout

by Ladee Hubbard

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#11

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia Butler

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#12

Dopefiend

by Donald Goines

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#13

The Prophets

by Robert Jones, et al.

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#14

Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone

by John Edgar Wideman

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#15

Speaking of Summer

by Kalisha Buckhanon

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#16

Dear Miss Metropolitan

by Carolyn Ferrell

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#17

One-Shot Harry

by Gary Phillips

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#18

When No One Is Watching

by Alyssa Cole

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#19

Streets Have No King

by JaQuavis Coleman

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#20

Kindred

by Octavia Butler

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#21

The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back

by Brittani Williams

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#22

The Hustle Chronicles

by Blacc Topp

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#23

Gage

by Blacc Topp

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#24

I Left My Back Door Open

by April Sinclair

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#25

Wolf Hustle

by Cin Fabré

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#26

Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions

by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

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#27

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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#28

And Nightmares

by Al-Saadiq Banks

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#29

Whoreson

by Donald Goines

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#30

Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice

by April Sinclair

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