Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 1997 (21 Titles)
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3 Honors

Push: A Novel

by Sapphire

2 Honors

Big Girls Don’t Cry

by Connie Briscoe

2 Honors

The Hand I Fan With

by Tina McElroy Ansa

2 Honors

Sister, Sister

by Eric Jerome Dickey

2 Honors

And This Too Shall Pass: A Novel

by E. Lynn Harris

2 Honors

Silent Conspiracy

by Lee E. Meadows

1 Honors

The Maker of Saints

by Thulani Davis

1 Honors

The Heart of a Woman

by Maya Angelou

1 Honors

Starlight Passage

by Anita Bunkley

1 Honors

The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

by Akosua Busia

1 Honors

Bloodline: Five Stories

by Ernest J. Gaines

1 Honors

Caught Up in the Rapture: A Novel

by Sheneska Jackson

1 Honors

Good Hair: A Novel

by Benilde Little

1 Honors

Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit and Encourage the Heart

by Donna Marie Williams

1 Honors

Where Evil Sleeps (A Tamara Hayle Mystery)

by Valerie Wilson Wesley

1 Honors

Anyplace But Here

by Arna Bontemps

1 Honors

African-American Literature: An Anthology

by TRIBUNE

1 Honors

Love Like Gumbo

by Nancy Rawles

1 Honors

Crisis of Identity

by William Simms

1 Honors

Dummy

by John Gibson

1 Honors

Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6)

by Walter Mosley