Nonfiction
Donald Bogle, Dorothy Dandridge (Amistad)
Lloyd Boston, Before You Put That On
Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise (Atria)
Pearl Cleage, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter (Atria)
George Clinton with Ben Greenman, Brotha’s Be Yo George, Ain’t That Funkin Kinda Hard on You by Atria
Common, One Day It’ll All Make Sense
Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint, A Wealth of Wisdom
Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography (Simon and Schuster)
Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Life Lit By Some Large Vision
James Gavin, Lena Horne (Atria)
*Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us (fiction: Across 100 Mountains & Dancing with Butterflies
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Kamoinge photographers, The Sweet Breathe of Life (Atria)
T.D. Jakes, Let it Go, Reposition Yourself, Before You Make Great Decisions (Atria)
Spike Lee, Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It; Mo Betta Blues & Do the Right Thing (Fireside)
Gordon Parks, A Hungry Heart
Kevin Powell, The Black Male Handbook, The Education of Kevin Powell
Dash of Daring, Penelope Rowland (Atria)
Greg Tate, Flyboy in the Butter Milk (Fireside)
Mikki Taylor, Commander in Chic (Atria)
Susan L. Taylor, In the Spirit. (Amistad)
*Lori L. Tharps, Kinky Gazpacho
Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us (Atria)
Richard Williams with Bart Davis, Black & White: The Way I See It (Atria)
Beverly Johnson with Alison Samuels, The Face That Changed it All
Fiction
Nana Ekua Brew Hammond, Powered Necklace
Lorene Cary, If Sons, Then Heirs
Maryse Conde, Story of the Cannibal Woman, Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat & Victoire
**Tananarive Due, My Soul to Take, Joplin’s Ghost, The Good House with Steven Barnes, Devil’s Wake series.
Marcus Guillory, Red Now n Laters
Rashad Harrison, The Abduction of Smith and Smith, Our Man in the Dark
Amy Hill Hearth, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier Country Literary Society
Shannon Holmes, Bad Girlz
Walter Mosley, Five Easy Pieces
Jewell P. Rhodes
Gillian Royes, The Shad Series
Vickie Stringer, the Red series
Lalita Tademy, Citizens Creek
Wanjiku wa Ngugi, The Fall of Saints
*Blair Underwood, Casanegra Tennyson Hardwick series with Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
Morowa Yejide, Time of the Locust
Carl Hancock Rux, Asphalt
Maria Helena Viramontes, Their Dogs Came with Them
Zane, The Other Side of the Pillow
