The protests and conversation happening across the country in the last week have sent many white Americans to books, particularly those titles found on antiracism lists.

Eso Won Books, a black-owned bookstore in Los Angeles, reported an “incredible surge” of customers in the last week, most looking for antiracism titles, specifically Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist, according to the LA Times. The book sold out in one day and has taken orders for nearly 400 copies since. (The Los Angeles Public Library had all 326 digital copies checked out and a waiting list of more than 1,300 people, according to the article.)

Other titles in great demand include So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

The rising demand is happening at children’s bookstores, too.

In Los Angeles, Children's Book World has always been a source for diverse titles and books about racism, antiracism, cultural histories, and social justice.  

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“Absolutely, we've seen an increase in sales on racism and antiracism and in books about black changemakers and books by black creators,” Maggie Pouncy, co-owner for Stories Bookshop + Storytelling Lab said via email. “So inspiring to see!

"We have signed copies of The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson, a beautiful picture book that won the Caldecott Medal this year and that has been our best seller this week. We also sold out of Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbottham, a book that confronts whiteness and white supremacy.”

A check of the Amazon children’s books sales charts on Friday morning showed Kendi’s  AntiRacist Baby, as the site’s No. 1 best seller in children’s books in the U.S., followed by Let’s Talk About Race and The Color of Us by Karen Katz

The top five books in overall sales were White Fragility, So You Want To Talk About Race, How to be an Antiracist, We're Different, We’re the Same by Bobbi Katz, and Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning. Jason Reynolds’s reworked version for kids, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, was No. 16.