Alicia Perez, Communications Pre-Professional at the Schomburg, takes a look back at the highest sellers of 2015 at the Gift Shop: 

It’s a New Year, but the Schomburg Gift Shop is still reveling in the success of last year’s most popular books! In fact, we’ve compiled a list of our best sellers below, which includes titles discussed at our events and other reader favorites. From memoirs, to science fiction, and beautiful photo collections, take home a copy of each before they sell out!

1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. This Side of Home by Renee Watson
3. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf
5. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition by Sylviane A. Diouf
6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
7. The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir by Timbaland
8. One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne
9. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha
10. Vintage Black Glamour by Nichelle Gainer

Purchase all these great books and more at the Schomburg Gift Shop Monday through Saturday from 11 AM to 6 PM!