Books on race dominating Amazon’s best-seller list

Books on race, racism and white supremacy are dominating the bestseller list on Amazon following a week of protests that have swept across all 50 states after the death of George Floyd.

Many of the books, which include memoirs, analytical non-fiction and children’s books, are sold out or only available as audiobooks and ebooks.

American University historian Ibram X. Kendi appears on the list twice with his books “How to be an Antiracist” and “Stamped from the Beginning.”

“This doesn’t happen every day,” Kendi tweeted. “It is fitting it happens on the day we are Blacking Out for Black lives and hopefully supporting our local independent bookstores too.”

Others on the list include National Book Award winner “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michele Alexander, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo (all of which are temporarily out of stock) and “We’re Different, We’re the Same,” a Sesame Street picture book.

Several books on the list are outselling the newest book in the “Hunger Games” series.

Barnes and Noble is similarly selling a lot of books about race, including James Baldwin’s classic “The Fire Next Time.”

Weekly bestseller lists, several of which are considered the publishing industry’s standard, are expected to reflect these sales in their next updates.