Critically Acclaimed Books

Ranking the Best Fiction Published in 2010 (69 Titles)
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3 Honors

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story

by Sister Souljah

2 Honors

Be Careful What You Pray For (Reverend Curtis Black #7)

by Kimberla Lawson Roby

2 Honors

Wench: A Novel

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

2 Honors

Tumbling: A Novel

by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

2 Honors

The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery

by Walter Mosley

2 Honors

Big Machine: A Novel

by Victor Lavalle

2 Honors

Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel

by Maaza Mengiste

2 Honors

How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories

by Tiphanie Yanique

2 Honors

How To Read The Air

by Dinaw Mengestu

2 Honors

The Cartel 3

by Ashley and JaQuavis

1 Honors

A Second Helping: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series)

by Beverly Jenkins

1 Honors

Black Water Rising: A Novel (Jay Porter Series)

by Attica Locke

1 Honors

Going Rogue: An American Life

by Sarah Palin

1 Honors

Betsey Brown: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

1 Honors

Basketball Jones

by E. Lynn Harris

1 Honors

You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles

by Ray Charles Robinson JR., Mary Jane Ross

1 Honors

The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God

by Chinua Achebe

1 Honors

Damaged

by Kia DuPree

1 Honors

Resurrecting Midnight

by Eric Jerome Dickey

1 Honors

That Devil’s No Friend of Mine

by J. D. Mason

1 Honors

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

by Ntozake Shange

1 Honors

In My Father’s House: A Novel

by E. Lynn Harris

1 Honors

Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It

by J. D. Mason

1 Honors

Tears Of A Hustler 2

by Silk White

1 Honors

Relapse: A Novel

by Nikki Turner

1 Honors

Three Days Before The Shooting…

by Ralph Ellison

1 Honors

Torn

by

1 Honors

Big Girls Do Cry

by Carl Weber

1 Honors

Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute To E. Lynn Harris

by Stanley Bennett Clay, Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy

1 Honors

The Massacre

by K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider

1 Honors

The Golden Hustla

by Wahida Clark

1 Honors

The Secrets Of Newberry

by Victor Mcglothin

1 Honors

What’s Really Hood!: A Collection Of Tales From The Streets

by Wahida Clark

1 Honors

Alibi

by Teri Woods

1 Honors

America I Am Journal

by

1 Honors

News from Home: Short Stories (Interlink World Fiction)

by Sefi Atta

1 Honors

In A Cold Sweat

by Roy Glenn

1 Honors

In Too Deep: Husband Material\The Sheikh’s Bargained Bride

by Brenda Jackson, Olivia Gates

1 Honors

When I Get Where I’m Going

by Cheryl Robinson

1 Honors

Freedom is Not Free

by King James

1 Honors

Getting To Happy

by Terry Mcmillan

1 Honors

The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

by Lawrence P. Jackson

1 Honors

The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise

by Nina Hachigian, Mona Sutphen

1 Honors

Still Wifey Material

by Kiki Swinson

1 Honors

Hustlin’ Divas

by De’nesha Diamond

1 Honors

A Taste of Honey: Stories

by Jabari Asim

1 Honors

Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery + Cafe

by Joanne Chang

1 Honors

Wife Of The Gods: A Novel

by Kwei Quartey

1 Honors

Covenant

by Brandon Massey

1 Honors

Crossing Color Lines

by

1 Honors

Belly of the Beast

by Caleb Alexander

1 Honors

Bitch

by Deja King

1 Honors

Bitch Reloaded Part 2

by Deja King

1 Honors

The Bitch Is Back (Part 3)

by Deja King

1 Honors

Life Is Short but Wide

by J. California Cooper

1 Honors

A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life

by Antwone Fisher

1 Honors

Sins Of The Mother: A Novel

by Victoria Christopher Murray

1 Honors

The Gods of the Bacteria: The World Before Darwin

by Billy Z. Earley

1 Honors

Forest Gate: A Novel

by Peter Akinti

1 Honors

Respect The Jux

by Frank C. Matthews

1 Honors

True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1)

by Teri Woods

1 Honors

In Laws and Play Cousins: Growing Pains, Promiscuity, Success and Murder

by Robyn Gant

1 Honors

Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street

by Lee Stringer

1 Honors

Nasty (Zane Presents)

by Dr. XYZ

1 Honors

Daddy Long Stroke (Zane Presents)

by Cairo

1 Honors

Blonde Roots

by Bernardine Evaristo

1 Honors

Material Girl

by Keisha Ervin

1 Honors

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

by Heidi W Durrow

1 Honors

Jesus Boy

by Preston L Allen