The Top 10 Urban Fiction Books – Pre 1999

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Classic Titles in the Urban Fiction Genre Published before 2000
#1
B-Boy Blues
by James Earl Hardy
#2
Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Chester Himes
#3
Dopefiend
by Donald Goines
#4
Flyy Girl
by Omar Tyree
#7
Push: A Novel
by Sapphire
#8
Slam!
by Walter Dean Myers
#9
The Street: A Novel
by Ann Petry
#10
To Reach a Dream
by Nathan C. Heard
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