AALBC.com's 500 Best Selling Books for 2005

In 2005 AALBC.com sold over 1,800 different titles.  The 500 best selling titles are shown below
 

1. The Interruption of Everything
2. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
3. Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt (Young Readers)
4. Confessions of a Video Vixen
5. Gettin' Buck Wild : Sex Chronicles II
6. The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
7. Afterburn : A Novel
8. Breaking the Cycle
9. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
10. Addicted : A Novel
11. The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
12. A Hustler's Wife
13. Nervous: A Novel
14. Race Matters
15. A Project Chick
16. HEAVEN
17. Some People, Some Other Place
18. The First Part Last (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
19. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys)
20. Miracle's Boys
21. Forged By Fire
22. Skyscraper
23. Slam!
24. The Mis-Education of the Negro
25. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
26. Bronx Masquerade (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
27. Christmas In The Big House: Christmas in the Quarters
28. Days Of Jubilee (Days of Jubilee)
29. Her Stories (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
30. Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
31. The Heat Seekers
32. The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
33. Their Eyes Were Watching God
34. A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
35. Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
36. Public Enemy #2 : An All-New Boondocks Collection
37. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
38. Genevieve
39. Never Satisfied: How & Why Men Cheat
40. Sheisty
41. Still Sheisty
42. A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version (B.C.P. Pamphlet)
43. Black
44. Dime Piece
45. Flipside of The Game
46. Shame on It All
47. True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable
48. Black Girl Lost
49. Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
50. The Best-Kept Secret
51. Can't Get Enough : A Novel
52. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
53. Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
54. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
55. Is Bill Cosby Right?
56. Let That Be the Reason
57. Quiet Spaces: Prayer Interludes for Women
58. Street Players
59. The Coldest Winter Ever
60. Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
61. 72 Hour Hold
62. B-More Careful
63. Dopefiend
64. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
65. The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
66. The Glamorous Life : A Novel
67. Around the Way Girls
68. Blinded
69. Chyna Black
70. Drive Me Crazy
71. Lookin' for Luv
72. Mama
73. Naughty Or Nice
74. Satan, I'm Taking Back My Health!
75. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni : 1968-1998
76. The Other Woman
77. Within The Shadows
78. Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom
79. A Gangster's Girl
80. Bad Girlz : A Novel
81. Bourbon Street
82. Crack Head
83. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines
84. Dutch II: Angel's Revenge
85. Dutch: The First of a Trilogy
86. From Superman to Man
87. Gangsta
88. G-Spot : An urban erotic tale by Noire
89. Imagine This
90. Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
91. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands : The Old World
92. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
93. Tastes Like Chicken
94. The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School
95. The Isis Papers
96. White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief
97. A Day Late and a Dollar Short
98. Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
99. Behind Closed Doors
100. Birth of a Nation : A Comic Novel
101. Black Gangster
102. Boss Lady
103. Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
104. Devil In The Mist
105. Every Thug Needs a Lady
106. Flyy Girl
107. Game Over
108. Inner City Hoodlum
109. Invisible Man
110. Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
111. Mis-Education of the Negro
112. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
113. No Disrespect
114. The Amazing Adventures of Abiola
115. The Taming of Jessi Rose (Avon Romance)
116. Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
117. Too Much of a Good Thing
118. Vivid
119. Who Does She Think She Is? : A Novel
120. Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
121. Wifey
122. Always and Forever
123. Autobiography of Malcolm X
124. Cooking with Grease : Stirring the Pots in American Politics
125. Death List
126. Echoes of a Distant Summer
127. Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection
128. Grimey
129. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
130. Kenyatta's Last Hit
131. Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms
132. Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
133. Love Poems
134. Married Men
135. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968. (Ebony Picture Biography Series)
136. Men Cry in the Dark
137. Never Die Alone
138. On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men
139. Pimp: The Story of My Life
140. Playing My Mother's Blues
141. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
142. Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet's Handbook
143. She (w/o CD) : (NS)
144. Silent Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery
145. Somebody's Gotta Be on Top
146. The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto
147. The Future Has a Past : Stories
148. The Million Dollar Divorce : A Novel
149. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
150. Threesome : Where Seduction, Power & Basketball Collide
151. Topaz (Avon Historical Romance)
152. , said the shotgun to the head.
153. A Lesson Before Dying : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback))
154. A Piece of Mine
155. Afterburn
156. An Antebellum Life at Sea: Featuring the Journal of Sarah Jane Girdler, Kept Aboard the Clipper Ship, Robert H. Dixey, from America to Russia and Euro
157. Around The Way Girls 2
158. Black Mother Goose Book
159. Black Students / Middle Class Teachers
160. Casting the First Stone
161. Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
162. Disappearing Acts
163. Distant Lover
164. Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
165. For the Love of Money : A Novel
166. Freedom in this Village : Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present
167. Heat Seekers
168. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
169. Kenyattas Escape
170. Latter Rain
171. Leaving Cecil Street : A Novel
172. My Life
173. My Woman His Wife
174. Night Song
175. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
176. Push
177. Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
178. Sisters You Don't Have To Settle!
179. Slavery and the Making of America
180. Some Love, Some Pain, Some Time: Stories
181. Speak, So You Can Speak Again : The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
182. Swamp Man
183. The Bluest Eye
184. The Darkest Child: A Novel
185. The Maintenance Man : A Novel
186. The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
187. The Midnight Hour (A Madaris Family Novel)
188. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)
189. The Tribe
190. The Velvet Rope
191. Unfinished Business
192. What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know : The Real Deal on Love and Relationships
193. A Chance at Love (Avon Romance)
194. A Dollar and a Dream
195. A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
196. A Hood Legend
197. A Whole Lotta Love
198. Another Man's Wife : A Novel
199. Any Rich Man Will Do
200. Baby Momma Drama
201. Belle and the Beau (An Avon True Romance)
202. Better Than I Know Myself
203. Beyond the Down Low : Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
204. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
205. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
206. Camilla's Roses
207. Cheaters
208. Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))
209. Criminal Minded
210. Cry Me a River
211. Dark Corner
212. Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
213. Deadly Reigns
214. Diary of A Lost Girl: The Autobiography Of Kola Boof
215. Dirty Money
216. Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success
217. Does Your House Have Lions ?
218. Drama Factor
219. Drug Related
220. Family
221. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
222. God's Gift to Women : A Novel
223. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
224. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
225. In My Bedroom
226. It Is What It Is : Shame on It All, Again
227. Journey to Justice
228. Joy
229. Just As I Am : A Novel
230. LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About
231. Liar's Game
232. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
233. Life of Pi
234. Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process
235. Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
236. Men Cheat Women Experiment
237. My Face Is Black Is True : Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
238. My Jim
239. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
240. No One Is Innocent (Jasmine Myers Mysteries)
241. Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This
242. P.G. County
243. Pimpin' from the Pulpit to the Pews
244. Player Haters
245. Raising Black Children
246. Righteous Riches: The Word Of Faith Movement In Contemporary African American Religion
247. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
248. Secondhand Lions
249. Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
250. Something Like Love (Avon Romance)
251. Song of Solomon
252. Standing at the Scratch Line : A Novel
253. Step into a World : A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
254. Street Life
255. Sugar
256. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary -Thumb-Indexed Version
257. The Billion Dollar BET : Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television
258. The Blackbird Papers : A Novel
259. The Bondwoman's Narrative
260. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
261. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
262. The Preacher's Son
263. The Seventh Octave: The early writings of Saul Williams
264. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
265. The Urban Guide to Biblical Money Management
266. The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
267. The Wendy Williams Experience
268. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
269. The Womanizers
270. Through the Storm
271. Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only
272. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
273. Until There Was You (Arabesque)
274. Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
275. Visions for Black Men
276. What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
277. What You Owe Me
278. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
279. Wifebeater
280. With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
281. WORLD'S GREAT MEN OF COLOR, VOLUME I
282. You and No Other
283. 2005 Writers Market (Writer's Market)
284. 2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))
285. 360: A Revolution of Black Poets
286. A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
287. A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
288. A House Is Not a Home : A B-Boy Blues Novel
289. A Long Way from Home
290. A Love of My Own : A Novel
291. A Personal Matter
292. A Raisin in the Sun
293. A Small Nation of People : W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
294. A Song Flung Up to Heaven
295. A Twist of Fate (Love Spectrum Romance)
296. A Woman's Worth : A Novel (Strivers Row)
297. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems
298. African People in World History (Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture)
299. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
300. Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
301. Ain't No Mountain
302. Althea
303. An All Night Man
304. Another Country
305. Another Good Loving Blues
306. Arc of Justice : A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
307. ASIN 0060776536
308. Autobiography of Josiah Henson : An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
309. Babylon Sisters : A Novel
310. Best Black Gay Erotica
311. Biblical History of Black Mankind
312. Big Girls Don't Cry
313. Black Coffee : A Novel
314. Black Like Me
315. Black Rednecks And White Liberals
316. Black Wings & Blind Angels : Poems
317. Blackgentlemen.com
318. Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Book of Black Heroes)
319. Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
320. Breaking Ice : An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
321. Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)
322. Brothers and Sisters
323. Brown Sugar 4 Secret Desires: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
324. Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
325. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
326. Call and Response the Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Anthology of African-American Literature)
327. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
328. Crackhead
329. Cream
330. Crime Partners
331. Dad Interrupted: A Novel
332. Dark salvation: The story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America (C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion)
333. Dark Thirst
334. Dear G-Spot
335. Diamond Drought
336. Dirty Bird Blues
337. Do or Die
338. Dollar Bill
339. Don't Want No Sugar
340. Douglass' Women : A Novel
341. Driven
342. Eldorado Red (Reissue ed)
343. Elmer and the Dragon
344. Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
345. Essence Brings You Great Cooking
346. Essential Defenders Volume 1 TPB (Essential)
347. Essential Luke Cage Power Man Volume 1 TPB (Essential (Marvel Comics))
348. Fighting for Your Life: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide
349. Five Negro Presidents
350. Flesh and the Devil
351. FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
352. Friends and Lovers
353. From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
354. Future Has a Past
355. Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
356. Giovanni's Room
357. Girls from da' Hood
358. God Don't Like Ugly
359. Handsome Me
360. Harlem
361. Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
362. Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
363. How to Write a Damn Good Novel : A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling (How to Write a Damn Good Novel)
364. Howard Street
365. I Can't Walk So I'll Learn to Dance
366. I Did It! You Can Too!!
367. I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
368. I'll Be Your Shelter (Love Spectrum Romance)
369. In Search of Satisfaction
370. In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
371. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
372. Invisible Life
373. Iron Pot Cooker [Bonus Tracks]
374. Jelly Roll : A Blues
375. Joplin's Ghost : A Novel
376. Just Say No! : A Novel
377. Know Thy Self
378. Larceny
379. Leslie
380. Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)
381. Let the Church Say Amen
382. Let's Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers
383. Let's Get It On
384. Life, Love & Loneliness
385. Like the First Time
386. Little Lion Goes to School
387. Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women
388. Love
389. Love Thy sister... Watch Thy Back
390. Low Road : The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
391. Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
392. Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America
393. Making the Most of Your Money
394. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
395. Mama Dip's Kitchen
396. Manchild in the Promised Land
397. Me and My Boyfriend
398. Memoir: Delaware County Prison
399. Mercy, Mercy Me
400. Mirror to America : The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
401. Mixed Messages
402. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
403. Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman
404. My Father's Dragon
405. My One Good Nerve
406. My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
407. My Soul to Keep
408. Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof
409. No More Sheets: The Truth About Sex
410. Nubian Passion: A Collection of Six Sensual Romance Short Stories
411. Pass It on: African-American Poetry for Children
412. Patchwork Girl
413. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
414. Promises to Keep : A Novel (Strivers Row)
415. Psalm Twenty-Three
416. Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
417. SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN
418. Scenes from a Sistah
419. Sex in the Hood
420. Sexual Healing
421. Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
422. She
423. Short Stories of Langston Hughes
424. Sister, Sister
425. Skin Folk
426. Someone to Love Me
427. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
428. Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
429. Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South
430. Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers
431. Statehood Quarter Album (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
432. Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not the Authours
433. Straight, No Chaser : How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
434. Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
435. Street
436. Strictly Confidential Attraction (Desire)
437. Sula
438. Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook : From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem
439. Tar Baby
440. The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
441. The African-American Writer's Guide to Successful Self-Publishing
442. The Africans Who Wrote the Bible
443. The Assassination of the Black Male Image
444. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
445. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (Modern Library)
446. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
447. The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
448. The Cornel West Reader
449. The Criss Cross
450. The Da Vinci Code
451. The Divine Order: God First, Family Second, Career Third
452. The Ebony Cookbook: A Date With a Dish
453. The Ecstatic : A Novel
454. The Friends
455. The Game: Short Stories About The Life
456. The Heart of a Woman
457. The Known World
458. The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World : 1941-1967 (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967)
459. The Measure of a Man (Facets)
460. The Measure Of A Man : A Spiritual Autobiography
461. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours : The Poetry of Jill Scott
462. The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present (The American Negro, his history and literature)
463. The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection CD
464. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Includes Audio CD)
465. The Nu Naybahood Funetic Ebonic Dictionary
466. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
467. The Skin I'm in
468. The Souls of Black Folk
469. The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse
470. The Third Life of Grange Copeland
471. The Vulture and the Nigger Factory
472. The Wake of the Wind : A Novel
473. The Warmest December
474. The Ways of White Folks : Stories (Vintage Classics)
475. The White Boy Shuffle
476. Things Fall Apart
477. This Bitter Earth
478. Tick Tock: A Novel
479. Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men
480. Train Whistle Guitar : A Novel (Vintage International)
481. Trick Baby
482. True Intentions (Mass Deception)
483. TUMBLING
484. Ugly Ways
485. Upstate
486. Volunteer Slavery : My Authentic Negro Experience
487. Voodoo Dreams : A Novel of Marie Laveau
488. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
489. Wet : True Lesbian Sex Stories
490. What's Really Holding You Back? : Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
491. Who Made Me?
492. Why I Love Black Women
493. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
494. Wounded in the House of a Friend
495. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
496. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
497. 47
498. 1984
499. 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
500. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

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