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Bestselling Books February 2021, a New Novel by Richard Wright, and More - 3/9/2021


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Lakewood PB AALBC
 

Essence Pick and NPR Book of the Year 2020, Lakewood by Megan Giddings is a startling debut about class and race, evoking a terrifying world of medical experimentation—part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Now available in paperback, on AALBC, and wherever books are sold. More ▶

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Our bestsellers list has been published continuously since 1998 and is the most visible list focused on Black books in existence. You will learn about books selling well, in the Black community, that may never show up on lists published by corporate entities.

Fiction: Limitation of Life by d. E. Rogers, the top-selling fiction book, does not come out until Mar 23, but sold well due to a $5-off campaign for preorders.

Nonfiction: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson were, by far, the bestselling books across all genres this period.

Children’s Books: The inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman, has three books on our bestsellers list that have not been published yet! She is the only author to accomplish this feat.

Poetry: African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song Edited by Kevin Young was the only book of poetry with enough sales to make our list this period (Gorman’s bestselling poetry books are captured on the children’s bestsellers list).

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The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

A previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author!

Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers … More ▶

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Praise Song for the Widow by Paule Marshall

Originally published in 1983, Praise Song for the Widow was a recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, and is presented here in a beautiful new hardcover edition. Praise Song for the Widow, a novel about a Harlem widow claiming new life, features a new original introduction by Opal Palmer Adisa.

Paule Marshall was perhaps best known for her novel Brown Girl, Brownstones. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she was Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She passed away in 2019. More ▶

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Crime Partners by Donald Goines

Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today's urban writers with his gritty, realistic look at the streets. For the first time in years, his classic Crime Partners is now repackaged and reissued in trade with a whole new look to attract new readers, as well as long-time fans of the legend himself.

Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. More ▶

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