Perfect Essence Book Bestsellers for Super Bowl weekend! 🏈 📚 @essence #superbowl #essencebookproject #essencebookbestseller #liarsgame #dirtygame #truetothegame #chargeittothegame #gametime #booktok #reading

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Because today is National Chocolate Cake Day! 🍫🎂📚 A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown was an @essence book bestseller in July 2006! #nationalchocolatecakeday #cupcakebrown #apieceofcake #essencebookproject #urbanliterature #urbanlit #streetlit

Another @essence book bestseller to add to your shelf! The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities #divinenine #hbcu #essencebookproject #readblackauthors

Do you remember these @Essence Book Bestsellers? #hillharper #blackbooks #nonfiction #BookTwitter #booktwt #bookclub #NationalLetterWritingDay

The titles of these @essence Essence Book Bestsellers are also titles of songs! Can you name the artists?

#cookingwithheartandsoul #soulfood #divinedesserts

It's Monday! Act like you know and have a "Bad As I Wanna Be" attitude this week! 👊🏾#dennisrodman #1996 #essencebookbestseller

Nikki Turner @iamnikkiturner dominated the Essence Best Bookseller list for years with her page turning novels! See the link for more info on her latest book! iamnikkiturner.com/

This month 23 years ago, Sister Souljah's classic THE COLDEST WINTER EVER, made the Essence Book Bestseller list. Speaking of cold...how cold is it where you are? #burr #thecoldestwinterever #classic

Dr. Jacinta Saffold, founder of Essence Book Project, profiled in @finebooks Fine Books & Collections magazine! Check it out! 🙌🏾 finebooksmagazine.com/blog/c…

Twice on the Essence Book Bestseller list, @kevin_powell is back with a new book of poems, Grocery Shopping with My Mother, out December 6th!

The project explores the literary history of Black popular books and women’s reading communities at the turn of the 21st century.

ICYMI!! 😃👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Dr. Jacinta R. Saffold, endowed Africana Studies chair at the Univ of New Orleans, discusses "How Black Women Use Books for Labor and Leisure: Notes from the ESSENCE Book Project." youtu.be/WedR5gKA4FA

Did you know that @lacooljill La Jill Hunt, contributing writer for shows such as BET's The Black Hamptons & The Family Business was on the 2004 Essence Book Bestseller list for her novel, Drama Queen?! 🔥🎬