All 54 Bestselling Books for May/June - 2023

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20 Bestselling Fiction

  1. Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023) by Clarence V. Reynolds
  2. Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
  3. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
  4. Black Girl Lost (2023) by Donald Goines
  5. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
  6. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
  7. What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change by Sharyn Skeeter
  8. Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon
  9. Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
  10. The Talk by Darrin Bell
  11. Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote
  12. The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
  13. Eldorado Red by Donald Goines
  14. The Thing about Home by Rhonda McKnight
  15. Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
  16. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  17. Alice in Dreamland by Roland S. Jefferson
  18. midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) by Ianna A. Small
  19. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  20. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

18 Bestselling Nonfiction Books

  1. I Love My People by Kim Singleton
  2. An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
  3. Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford
  4. Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin (editor)
  5. White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds by Roland S. Martin
  6. The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront by Tony Martin
  7. New Dimensions in African History by John Henrik Clarke
  8. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
  9. My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
  10. The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
  11. A Black History Reader: 101 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Claud Anderson
  12. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander
  13. Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America! by Ronald Dalton Jr.
  14. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  15. CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
  16. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  17. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  18. Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America by Nkechi Taifa

14 Bestselling Children’s Books

  1. Sweet Sorrel Stand by Yolanda T. Marshall
  2. Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
  3. Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover by Jamia Wilson
  4. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
  5. Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman
  6. Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
  7. Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day by Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill
  8. A Hero Like Me by Angela Joy and Jen Reid
  9. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
  10. Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
  11. Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson
  12. Cornrows (2023) by Camille Yarbrough
  13. Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
  14. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

2 Bestselling Poetry Books

  1. Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
  2. Sunlight Through Bullet Holes by jessica Care moore