Collage of 1997’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about Push: A Novel by Sapphire
Click for more detail about Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. Mckissack
Click for more detail about For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Click for more detail about Sister, Sister by Eric Jerome Dickey
Click for more detail about Harlem by Walter Dean Myers
Click for more detail about Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
Click for more detail about The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
Click for more detail about The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 by Bill Cosby
Click for more detail about Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Click for more detail about Big Girls Don’t Cry by Connie Briscoe
Click for more detail about Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Click for more detail about The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa
Click for more detail about Just an Overnight Guest by Eleanora E. Tate
Click for more detail about And This Too Shall Pass: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
Click for more detail about Silent Conspiracy by Lee E. Meadows