Bestselling books by Black authors
Subtitle: a LibGuide focused on Black literature
By: Mariame Kaba, Catherine Richardson, Pratt Institute LIS
Contributors: Pratt Institute LIS
Publisher: Pratt Institute LIS
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Black Authors; Bibliography; Biography; Publishing; Racism
Other titles: Bestselling Black books; Best selling Black books; LibGuides :; PrattLis LibGuides
Description: "Welcome to the bestselling books by Black authors guide. Relying on data from NPD BookScan, we’ve compiled a database of bestselling books by Black authors from 2004 through September 2021. We’ve limited our list to include titles that have sold at least 50,000 copies. With the explosion of self-publishing and books available digitally and on demand now, the average book in the United States today still only sells about 250 copies a year - so 50,000 books sold is a successful, and popular title. To contextualize & supplement the database, this guide also offers biographical information about top selling Black authors, books by bestselling Black authors most likely to be challenged & banned, and other curated lists of Black literature."
Notes: This LibGuide was created in Fall 2021 as a project for Reference & Instruction (INFO 652-02) in the Pratt MSLIS program. It is designed for librarians & MSLIS students who are responsible for collection development and are interested in literature by Black authors.
Table of contents: title: Black bestsellers database; title: Featured books and authors; title: Top 10 bestselling authors: biographies; title: The politics of Black books: bans and challenges; title: Searching for other literature by Black authors.