Top 20 Nonfiction Books Purchased by Black-Owned Bookstores

This list was provided courtesy of Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press (AWP & RSP), one of the largest Black-owned book distributors and publishers operating in the United States. AWP & RSP sells books to bookstores all over the world. This list represents the books with the greatest demand from booksellers; several are AALBC bestselling books.

New Visions for Black Men

New Visions for Black Men

by Na’im Akbar

The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson

The Island of Memes: Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution

The Island of Memes

by Wade Nobles

Enoch the Ethiopian: Greater Than Abraham Holier Than Moses

Enoch the Ethiopian

by Indus Khamit-Kush

What They Never Told You in History Class, Volume 1

What They Never Told You in History Class, Volume 1

by Indus Khamit-Kush

Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity

Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity

by Queen Afua

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

by John Henrik Clarke

The Science and the Myth of Melanin: Exposing the Truths

The Science and the Myth of Melanin

by T. Owens Moore

Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created A Billion-Dollar Business Empire

Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?

by Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker

The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors

The ISIS Papers

by Frances Cress Welsing

African Holistic Health

African Holistic Health

by Llaila Afrika

Know Thyself

by Na’im Akbar

Blood in My Eye

Blood in My Eye

by George Jackson

100 Years of Lynchings

100 Years of Lynchings

by Ralph Ginzburg

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

by Bobby Seale

The Goddess Blackwoman: Mother of Civilization

The Goddess Blackwoman

by Akil

Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery

Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery

by Na’im Akbar

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

A Chronology Of The Bible: Challenge To The Standard Version

A Chronology Of The Bible

by Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Your History: From Beginning Of Time To The Present

by J. A. Rogers