The Top 10 Urban Fiction Books – Pre 1999

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Classic Titles in the Urban Fiction Genre Published before 2000

#1

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B-Boy Blues
by James Earl Hardy

#2

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Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Chester Himes

#3

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Dopefiend
by Donald Goines

#4

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Flyy Girl
by Omar Tyree

#5

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Manchild In The Promised Land
by Claude Brown

#6

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Pimp: The Story of My Life
by Iceberg Slim

#7

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Push: A Novel
by Sapphire

#8

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Slam!
by Walter Dean Myers

#9

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The Street: A Novel
by Ann Petry

#10

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To Reach a Dream
by Nathan C. Heard