On this week's USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List, anti-racist book 'White Fragility' unseated the latest 'Hunger Games' book.
This week, after over two weeks of mass protests prompted by Floyd's death around the country, anti-racist literature and books about race make up half of the Top 10 of USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books List. Those titles include:“So You Want to Talk About Race,” by Ijeoma Oluo at No. 4“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates at No.
First-time authors to the list with anti-racist books include Richard Rothstein with “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” Beverly Daniel Tatum with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Bakari Sellers with “My Vanishing Country."
In fiction, Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half,” a novel by that deals with themes of racism and colorism , debuted on the list at No. 14. Longtime luminaries like Toni Morrison and James Baldwin also made appearances on the list.Major national booksellers, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, have sold out of print editions of several popular titles online, including “How to Be an Antiracist.
“Our customers responded immediately and in large numbers to this current moment, with books on race and antiracism jumping to the top of our bestseller list,” reads a Barnes & Noble company statement. “We were heartened to see the surge in sales of these books in response to the news and we are working hard to replenish any print editions that are sold out.” Barnes & Noble is also curating lists of books for further insight on race and justice that can be found on BN.com.
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