Amazon’s UK best sellers list is dominated by books on racial themes

Amazon’s UK best sellers list is dominated by books on racial themes including Me And White Supremacy and Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race

  • Amazon’s UK’s best selling list was today dominated by racially themed books 
  • Reni Eddo Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race on list
  • Also featured on list was the 2020 popular novel Me And White Supremacy

Amazon’s UK’s best selling books list was today dominated by novels that centred around racial themes.

The book list, which is updated hourly, saw books including Reni Eddo Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other climb to the top of Amazon’s list of best sellers.

The chart, which is able to record the most read and most sold titles for both fiction and non-fiction across the popular site, also featured the 2020 novel Me And White Supremacy.

The Sunday Tines bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race sparked a national conversation when it was first published in 2017.

Also climbing to the top of the list was Bernadine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad (left) and Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (right) dominated the book charts today

Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race rose to the top of Amazon's best sellers list today

Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race rose to the top of Amazon’s best sellers list today

Amazon's UK's best selling books list saw books centres by racial issues dominating its charts

Amazon’s UK’s best selling books list saw books centres by racial issues dominating its charts

The debut novel by Reni Eddo Lodge sees the writer share her frustrations with the discussions held around race, gender and class in the UK.

Meanwhile Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, revolves around the lives of 12 different characters, who are mostly women, black and British, as they share their experiences and struggles about life.

Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire by the BAFTA and MOBO award-winning musician Akala explores race relations in the UK.

The novel, which was published in 2018, follows the encounters that shaped the authors life, from coming face to face with racist teachers to realising his mother was white.

Speaking in 2018 about his book the author told ITV’s Peston on Sunday about the moment he realised his mother was a different race to him.

He said: ‘Well I think the idea of racial identity first occurred to me at that point. 

He added: ‘This comes back to the larger discussion in the way in which the British education system is very much stratified by class. 

‘We are not interested in turning kids in Easter House in Glasgow into rocket scientists and so this inevitably produces conflict with children who are too bright or get ideas above thier station and so I sort of fit into that narrative and was put in this special needs group.

Meanwhile Me And White Supremacy by Layla Saad looks at how readers can remove privilege within themselves and therefore stop inflicting damage to those og another race.

Author Bernardine Evaristo (at the 2019 Booker Prize at The Guildhall) saw her book Girl, Woman, Other leap to the top of Amazon's best sellers

Author Bernardine Evaristo (at the 2019 Booker Prize at The Guildhall) saw her book Girl, Woman, Other leap to the top of Amazon’s best sellers

Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race explores race relations in the UK

Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire was written by the BAFTA and MOBO award-winning musician Akala

Why I’m No Longer Talking About Race by Renu Eddo- Lodge and Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire by Akala also dominated the book charts today

Also making an appearance in the best sellers list was the 2019 novel Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. 

Owens’ book centres around the the mysterious ‘Marsh Girl’ Kya who lives in the quiet and isolated town of Barkley Cove, which sits on the North Carolina. 

Also making an appearance in the best sellers list was the 2019 novel Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Owens’ book centres around the the mysterious ‘Marsh Girl’ Kya who lives in the quiet and isolated town of Barkley Cove, which sits on the North Carolina.  

MailOnline has contacted Amazon for comment. 

Read more at DailyMail.co.uk