5 Black writers featured in the 2020 TCM top 100 Black authors’ charts Obamas dominate as representation stalls
2019 full-year Title
1 A Promised Land 2 Girl, Woman, Other
4 Queenie 5 Natives
Author Imprint
Barack Obama Viking Bernardine Evaristo
Penguin
3 Why I’m No Longer Talking... Reni Eddo-Lodge Bloomsbury Candice Carty-Williams Trapeze Akala Two Roads Michelle Obama Viking Mike Gayle Hodder Oyinkan Braithwaite Atlantic Layla Saad Quercus Colson Whitehead Fleet David Olusoga Pan N Bryon; D Adeola Puffin
6 Becoming 7 Half a World Away
8 My Sister, the Serial Killer 9 Me and White Supremacy 10 The Nickel Boys 11 Black and British 12 Look Up!
13 Such a Fun Age
14 An American Marriage 15 Noughts & Crosses
2020 full-year Title
1 A Promised Land 2 Girl, Woman, Other
4 Queenie 5 Natives
Kiley Reid Bloomsbury Tayari Jones Oneworld Malorie Blackman Penguin
Author Imprint
Barack Obama Viking Bernardine Evaristo
Penguin
3 Why I’m No Longer Talking... Reni Eddo-Lodge Bloomsbury Candice Carty-Williams Trapeze Akala Two Roads Michelle Obama Viking Mike Gayle Hodder Oyinkan Braithwaite Atlantic Layla Saad Quercus Colson Whitehead Fleet David Olusoga Pan N Bryon; D Adeola Puffin
6 Becoming 7 Half a World Away
8 My Sister, the Serial Killer 9 Me and White Supremacy 10 The Nickel Boys 11 Black and British 12 Look Up!
13 Such a Fun Age
14 An American Marriage 15 Noughts & Crosses
Kiley Reid Bloomsbury Tayari Jones Oneworld Malorie Blackman Penguin
2021 (Year to 27th February) Title
Author
1 Such a Fun Age 2 A Promised Land 3 Girl, Woman, Other 4 All My Lies Are True 5 The Truths We Hold 6 Asking for a Friend
8 Becoming
9 The Vanishing Half 10 Queenie
11 Concrete Rose Imprint
Kiley Reid Bloomsbury Barack Obama Viking Bernardine Evaristo
Penguin
Dorothy Koomson Headline Kamala Harris Vintage Andi Osho HQ
7 Why I’m No Longer Talking... Reni Eddo-Lodge Bloomsbury Michelle Obama Viking Brit Bennett Dialogue Candice Carty-Williams Trapeze Angie Thomas Walker Mike Gayle Hodder Angie Thomas Walker Akala Two Roads Namina Forna Usborne
12 All The Lonely People 13 The Hate U Give 14 Natives
15 The Gilded Ones
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ISBN (+978) RRP TCM 0241491515 0241984994 1408870587
£35.00 £8.99 £8.99
1409180074 £8.99 1473661233 0241334140 1473687370
£8.99
£25.00 £8.99
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£14.99 £8.99
£12.99 6.99
£12.99 £8.99 £7.99
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17 46 92
153 287 365 392 425 431 439 468 477 484
ISBN (+978) RRP TCM 0241491515 0241984994 1408870587
£35.00 £8.99 £8.99
1409180074 £8.99 1473661233 0241334140 1473687370
£8.99
£25.00 £8.99
1786495983 £8.99 1529405101 0708899427 1447299769 0241345849 1526612144 1786075192 0141378640
£14.99 £8.99
£12.99 6.99
£12.99 £8.99 £7.99
6 7
17 46 92
153 287 365 392 425 431 439 468 477 484
ISBN (+978) RRP TCM 1526612168 0241491515 0241984994 1472260420 1529114461 0008245795 1408870587 0241334140 0349701462
£8.99
£35.00 £8.99 £8.99 £9.99 £8.99 £9.99
£25.00 £14.99
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156 322 397 406 420 444
1409180074 £8.99 447 1406384444 1473687417 1406372151 1473661233 1474959575
525 604 638 640 677
Charts use data from the Nielsen BookScan Total
Consumer Market.
KILEY REID TOPS THE 2021 TO DATE CHART, WITH HER NOVEL SUCH A FUN AGE
Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy and David Olusoga’s Black and British also soared into the Top 50 in June 2020. Last year saw
15 titles by Black authors chart in the TCM top 500, up from 10 in 2019. Three of 2019’s top four bestselling titles by Black writers
had awards boosts, with Tayari Jones’ Women’s Prize-winner An American Marriage, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Booker and Women’s Prize-nominated My Sister, the Serial Killer and Girl, Woman, Other’s hardback joining Michelle Obama’s Becoming at the top. However, in 2019 the former First Lady’s memoir was the sole title by a Black author in the top 100. In 2018, she became the first non-white female author to chart in the UK overall number one. Only Eddo-Lodge has followed since.
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