In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests, her book ''Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'' (published in 2017) rose 155 places to top the UK non-fiction paperback chart, at the same time as Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 novel ''Girl, Woman, Other'' topped the paperback fiction chart, the first time books by black British women headed both charts. On 16 June 2020 she became the first black British woman to be No. 1 overall in the British book charts.