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Top 100 Bestsellers of 2021

November 10, 2021

For your interest here is a list of the the top 100 bestselling books at Housmans in 2021 – from 1st January to the present day. Of course sales aren’t everything, and the difference between a book in 200th places and 100th isn’t all that much, but nonetheless it’s still interesting to see what books people have been gravitating to the most.

The list naturally favours books published earlier in the year or before, as they have had more time on the shelves.

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Here’s the list, #1 at the top:

What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition EmmaDabiri
Abolishing the Police Koshka Duff
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race ReniEddo-Lodge
Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It DavidGraeber
All About Love bellhooks
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House  AudreLorde
Women, Race & Class Angela Y.Davis
Girl, Woman, Other BernardineEvaristo
Protest : Stories of Resistance SandraAlland
Feminism, Interrupted : Disrupting Power LolaOlufemi
Natives : Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire Akala
Capitalist Realism MarkFisher
Wretched Of The Earth FrantzFanon
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too MatthewBrown
Revolting Prostitutes : The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights JunoMac
We Played With Fire CatherineBarter
Your Silence Will Not Protect You : Essays and Poems ReniEddo-Lodge
Lost in Work : Escaping Capitalism AmeliaHorgan
Mask Off : Masculinity Redefined JJBola
Are Prisons Obsolete AngelaDavis
This Land : The Story of a Movement OwenJones
Afropean : Notes from Black Europe JohnyPitts
Rebel Footprints – Second Edition : A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History DavidRosenberg
Insurgent Empire : Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent PriyamvadaGopal
The Transgender Issue : An Argument for Justice ShonFaye
Black Marxism : The Making of the Black Radical Tradition Cedric J.Robinson
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism : The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power ShoshanaZuboff
Brit(ish) : On Race, Identity and Belonging AfuaHirsch
The Good Immigrant NikeshShukla
Race : Vintage Minis ToniMorrison
Pride : The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner’s Strike TimTate
Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin WallKimmerer
Pedagogy of the Oppressed PauloFreire
Posh Boys : How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain RobertVerkaik
Debt : The First 5000 Years DavidGraeber
Parable of the Sower  Octavia E.Butler
The Government of No One : The Theory and Practice of Anarchism RuthKinna
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists [Graphic Novel] ScarlettRickard
Boy PartsElizaClark
The Dispossessed Ursula K.Le Guin
Make Rojava Green Again DebbieBookchin
A Decolonial Feminism FrancoiseVerges
How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy JennyOdell
Work Won’t Love You Back : How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone SarahJaffe
Ghosts Of My Life MarkFisher
Resist : Stories of Uprising : 2 RaPage
Stolen : How to Save the World from Financialisation GraceBlakeley
Woman on the Edge of Time  MargePiercy
Not Quite Right For Us SharmillaBeezmohun
Autobiography Of Malcolm XMalcolm X
Zami : A New Spelling of my Name AudreLorde
Sister Outsider AudreLorde
Me and White Supremacy : How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World LaylaSaad
Freedom is A Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement AngelaDavis
I Will Not Be Erased”: Our stories about growing up as people of colour”Gal-Dem
Steal As Much As You Can : How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity NathalieOlah
Municipal Dreams : The Rise and Fall of Council Housing JohnBoughton
On Anarchism NoamChomsky
Border Nation : A Story of Migration LeahCowan
The Care Manifesto : The Politics of Compassion AndreasThe Care Collective
Feminism for the 99% NancyFraser
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures MarkFisher
Red Metropolis : Socialism and the Government of London OwenHatherley
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference GretaThunberg
Orientalism Edward WSaid
Fire Next Time JamesBaldwin
Settling the World : Selected Stories 1970-2020 M. JohnHarrison
Mouth Full of Blood : Essays, Speeches, Meditations ToniMorrison
Prison: A Survival Guide CarlCattermole
Whites : On Race and Other Falsehoods OteghaUwagba
The Boy Who Loved Everyone JanePorter
Against Memoir MichelleTea
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy : A Brief History of Capitalism YanisVaroufakis
Chav SolidarityDHunter
New Model Island : How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England AlexNiven
Doughnut Economics : Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist KateRaworth
Black Resistance to British Policing AdamElliott-Cooper
The Communist Manifesto KarlMarx
Dark Days JamesBaldwin
The Witch : A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present RonaldHutton
Kindred Octavia E.Butler
Utopia for Realists : And How We Can Get There RutgerBregman
Witches, Witch-hunting, And Women SilviaFederici
Revolutionary Yiddishland : A History of Jewish Radicalism Alain Brossat Sylvia Klingberg
Detransition, Baby TorreyPeters
Caliban and The Witch SilviaFederici
Black Skin, White Masks FrantzFanon
The Conquest of Bread PeterKropotkin
Poor CalebFemi
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness MichelleAlexander
It’s Not About the Burqa : Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race MariamKhan
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide : A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Kate Charlesworth KateCharlesworth
Occult Features Of Anarchism : With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples EricaLagalisse
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us : Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice MariameKaba
Portraits of Violence : An Illustrated History of Radical CritiqueBrad Evans
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X.Kendi
Post-Internet Far RightDog Section
Advertising Shits In Your Head : Strategies for ResistanceVyvianRaoul
Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline CriadoPerez
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa WalterRodney

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