NONFICTION HARDCOVER
1. Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper by Charles A. Moose and Charles Fleming (E P Dutton)
2. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir by E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday)
3. Tupac: Resurrection by Jacob Hoye (Atria)
4.What Keeps Me Standing:Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope, and Inspiration by Dennis Kimbro (Doubleday)
5.Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Are We Here For? By Rick Warren (Zondervan)
6. Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley (Random House)
7. Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say: 7 Simple Strategies to Help Our Children Along the Path to Purpose and Possibility by Glenda Hatchett (William Morrow)
8. Power of Vision by George Barna (Regal Books)
9. Revelations: There’s Light After the Lime by Mason Betha (Atria)
10. A Lawyers Life by Johnnie Cochran (Thomas Dunne Books) NONFICTION PAPERBACK
1 . The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson and Jawanza Kunjufu (African-American Images)
2.Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race and Power in America by Kevin Powell (Three Rivers Press)
3. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Kashik Malik Hassan-El (Lushena Books)
4. Germany’s Black Holocaust (1890-1945) by Firpo W. Carr. PhD. (Scholartechnological)
5. A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury by Aaron McGruder (Three Rivers Press)
6. Matters of the Heart by Juanita Bynum (Charisma House)
7. Finding Fish by Antwone Q. Fisher (Harper)
8. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks (Routledge)
9.The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt (Riverhead Books)
10. Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women Study Guide by Myles Munroe (Whitaker House) FICTION HARDCOVER
1. Nervous by Zane (Atria)
2. Baggage Claim by David E. Talbert (Simon & Schuster)
3. Second Sunday by Michele Andrea Bowen (Warner Book/Walk Worthy Press)
4. Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad Press)
5. God Still Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe (Dafina Books)
6. Love by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
7. Baby Momma Drama by Carl Weber (Kensington, $24)
8. Sisters of APF by Zane (Atria)
9. The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey (E P Dutton)
10. Trouble Man by Travis Hunter (Villard) FICTION SOFTCOVER
1. A Hustler’s Wife by Nikki Turner (TripleCrown Publications)
2. Caught Up by Winston Chapman (Black Pearl Books)
3. Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn From Them by Liz Curtis Higgs (Waterbrook Press)
4. A Lova’ Like No Otha’ by Stephanie Perry Moore (Thorndike Press)
5. Drama Queen by La Jill Hunt (Urban Books)
6. God’s Gift to Women by Michael Baisden (Touchstone Books)
7. Been There Done That by Darrien Lee (Simon & Schuster)
8. P.G. County by Connie Briscoe (One World/Ballantine)
9. Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide by Brenda L. Thomas (Writersandpoets.com)
10. B-More Careful by Shannon Holmes (Meow Meow Productions) Bookstore Spotlight on: Medu Bookstore, Atlanta, Ga. Owner Nia Damali, is currently reading Love, by Toni Morrison. To contact Medu Bookstore, call (404) 346-3263. About This List: The ESSENCE Best-sellers list is based on reports of retail sales. Respondents are African-American bookstores. Reporting Stores: Alke-bulan Books (Antioch, Tenn.), Brownstone Books (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Black Classics (Mobile, Ala.), Black Images Book Bazaar (Dallas), theblacklibrary.com (Boston), Cushcity.com (Houston, Texas), Heritage Bookstore and More (Fort Meyers, Fla.), Howard University Bookstore (Washington, D.C.), Hue-man Bookstore (New York), Jokae’s African-American Bookstore (Dallas), Karibu Books (Hyattsville, Md), Knowledge Bookstore (Brampton, Ont.), Medu Bookstore (Atlanta), Melodrama Books (Far Rockaway, NY), Nu World of Books (Beaumont, Texas), OurStory Books & Gifts (Plainfield, N.J.), Pyramid Books (Little Rock, Ark.), Pyramid Books (Boynton Beach, Fla), Under One Roof (Kileen, Texas), Sibanye (Baltimore, Md.), Truth Bookstore (Detroit). Compiled by Raquel Boler |
