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NONFICTION HARDCOVER
1. Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land by Randall Robinson (Penguin Group, $23.95)
2. Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Are We Here For? by Rick Warren (Zondervan, $19.99)
3. Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man: Conflict and Compromise of Second Generation Advocacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Anthony Asadullah Samad (Kabili Press, $35)
4. Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy (Atria Books, $25)
5. A Wealth Of Wisdom: Legendary African Americans Speak edited by Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint (Simon & Schuster, $27.95)
6. Girl Make Your Money Grow: A Sister’s Guide to Protecting Your Future and Enriching Your Life by Glenda Bridgforth and Gail Perry-Mason (Broadway Books, $19.95)
7. Tupac: Resurrection by Jacob Hoye (Atria, $29.95)
8. Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing and Hope from Black America by Tavis Smiley (Doubleday, $22.95)
9. A Lawyer's Life by Johnnie Cochran (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.95)
10. America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African-Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Warner Books, $25.95) NONFICTION PAPERBACK
1. Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson and Jawanza Kunjufu (American Images, $14)
2. Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Kashik Malik Hassan-El (Lushena Books, $3.95)
3. Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity by Yolanda King and Elodia Tate (McGraw-Hill, $14.95)
4. I Want It Now! Analyze Where You Are in Life, Discover Your Passion and Achieve Ultimate Happiness by Nakisha Crawford (Pathway Publishing, $13.95)
5. Laugh If You Like Ain't a Damn Thing Funny: The Life Story of Ralph "Petey" Greene as Told to Lurma Rackley by Lurma Rackley (Xlibris, $21.99)
6. What They Never Told You in History Class by Induskhamit Kush and Lon Sharpe (A & B Books, $16.95)
7. Think Big by Ben Carson (Zondervan, $5.99)
8. God Just Showed Up: Stories of Hope in Everyday Experiences compiled by Linda Watkins (Moody Press, $12.99)
9. What Makes You So Strong? Sermons of Joy and Strength from Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. by Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (Judson Press, $15)
10. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Hill Books, $14.95) FICTION HARDCOVER
1. Player Haters by Carl Weber (Kensington, $24)
2. Too Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby (Morrow, $23.95)
3. SkyScraper by Zane (Atria Books, $24.95)
4. Nervous by Zane (Atria, $24.95)
5. God Still Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe (Dafina Books, $24)
6. Second Sunday by Michele Andrea Bowen (Warner Books/Walk Worthy Press, $22.95)
7. In My Bedroom by Donna Hill (St. Martin's Press, $19.95)
8. Baggage Claim: A Novel by David E. Talbert (Simon & Schuster, $22)
9. Love by Toni Morrison (Knopf, $23.95)
10. Using What You Got by Karen E. Quinones Miller (Simon & Schuster, $22) FICTION SOFTCOVER
1. Hitts and Mrs. by Lori Bryant-Woolridge (Avon, $13.95)
2. A Project Chick by Nikki Turner (Triple Crown, $15)
3. A Hustler’s Wife by Nikki Turner (TripleCrown Publications, $15)
4. Bad Girlz by Shannon Holmes (Atria, $15)
5. A Lova’ Like No Otha’ by Stephanie Parry Moore (Warner Books, $13.95)
6. Memories of Yesterday by Cheryl Robinson (Sterling, $14.95)
7. Every Thug Needs a Lady by Wahida Clark (Black Print Publishing, $14.95)
8. Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com As told by Zane (Simon & Schuster, $15)
9. Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide by Brenda L. Thomas (Writersandpoet.com, $12.95)
10. Caught Up by Winston Chapman (Black Pearl Books, $14.95) BOOKSTORE SPOTLIGHT ON: A Different Booklist, Ontario, Canada, owner Itah Sadu, is currently reading “Waltzes, I Have Not Forgotten" by Bernadette Gaba Dyer. To contact A Different Booklist call (416) 538-0889. ABOUT THIS LIST: The ESSENCE Best-sellers list is based on reports of retail sales. Respondents are African-American bookstores. Numbers in parentheses indicate last month’s position. An asterisk indicates a debut title on this list. REPORTING STORES: Al-kebulan (Nashville, Tennessee), A Different Booklist (Ontario, Canada), Black Classics (Mobile, Ala.), Black Images Book Bazaar (Dallas), theblacklibrary.com (Boston, Mass.), Cushcity.com (Houston, Texas),
Dorothea's African American Books (Columbia, S.C.), Heritage Bookstore and
More (Fort Meyers, Fla.), Hue-man Books (New York, N.Y.), Jokae's African
American Books (Dallas, Texas), Karibu Books (Hyattsville, Md.), Knowledge
Bookstore (Brampton, Ontario), Melodrama Books & Things (Far Rockaway, N.Y.), Nu World of Books (Beaumont, Texas), Ourstory (Plainfield, New Jersey), Pyramid
Books (Little Rock, Ark.), Pyramid Books (Boynton Beach, Fla.), Reflections
(Bloomfield, Conn.), Truth Bookstore (Detroit, Mich.), Shrine of the Black
Madonna (Detroit, Mich.), Under One Roof (Kileen, Texas). Compiled by Raquel Boler |
