Best African-American Fiction 2010
Ballantine, 2010.
A great collection of short stories and novel excerpts from outstanding authors.

Stacy Hawkins Adams
Jubilant Soul: Dreams that Won't Let Go. Revell, 2010
As she prepares for her wedding, the last thing Indigo Burns is expecting is the arrival of her estranged brother, Reuben, who hopes to find healing with his sisters. But Indigo isn't so sure their relationship can be mended.

Deidre Berry
All About Eva. Dafina, 2010
First, spoiled fashionista Eva Cantrell's deep-pocketed investment banker boyfriend vanishes after being accused of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. That's just the beginning of the hit to her VIP lifestyle.

Connie Briscoe
Sisters & Husbands. GCP, 2009
After two other broken-off engagements in the past five years, Beverly's friends & family are happy that she's finally decided to settle down with Julian But when her sister's supposedly solid marriage unravels, Beverly begins second-guessing her impending nuptials. Will it be three strikes yer out?

Parry A. Brown
What Goes Around. One World, 2006
A mother who abandoned her twin daughters as infants suddenly reappears into their lives at their high school graduation. Her motive: her kidneys are failing and she is in desperate need of a donor.

Pearl Cleage
Till You Hear from Me. One World, 2010
35-year-old Ida B. Wells is feeling left on the sidelines after assisting on Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign as younger eager-beavers seem to be snagging plum jobs in the new administration. Making matters worse, her father, Civil Rights leader Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, has been prominently featured on a popular YouTube rant that concerns her enough to head home to Atlanta for a reunion, while the RNC becomes embroiled in some pretty dirty politics.

J. California Cooper
Life is Short But Wide. Doubleday, 2009
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Val and Irene Strong set down roots in Wideland, Oklahoma and raise a family. This multi-generational sags follows all their hardships and joys, successes and failures.

Candance Dow
Feelin' the Vibe. GCP, 2009
A decade ago, Clark Winston lost the man of her dreams and gained an unwanted child when her best friend died. Now she has the perfect perfect career and perfect husband. But when the man who left her for another woman reappears into her life, Clark knows she will have to make the most important decision of her life.

Tananarive Due
The Black Rose. Ballantine, 2000
The inspiring story of Madame C. J. Walker, who rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes.

Percival Everett
I'm Not Sidney Poitier. Graywolf, 2009
His name is (really) Not Sidney Poitier (he does bear a resemblance to the actor) and his life moves from one absurd situation to another after his mother leaves him a wealthy orphan thanks to her savvy investment of all her money in an upstart TV network headed by Ted Turner.

Gwynne Forster
Change Had to Come. Kensington, 2009
When she lands a job as a food columnist for a Washington newspaper, Letitia Langley treats herself to a much-needed makeover, which opens up a number of positive opportunities for her, including a trip to Africa and the attentions of a handsome colleague.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Resurrecting Midnight. Dutton, 2009
Series anti-hero Gideon, a professional assassin, reluctantly takes on an assignment involving a briefcase containing something any number of cold-blooded killers are desperate to obtain.

Matthew Aaron Goodman
Hold Love Strong. S&S, 2009
Abraham Singleton, born on the bathroom floor of an apartment in the projects in Queens to a 13-year-old unwed mother, narrates his coming-of-age in the Ever Park Housing Project in Queens, New York.

Beverly Jenkins
Bring on the Blessings. Avon, 2009
When you play you pay, so when Bernadine Brown catches her husband cheating with his secretary, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million and buys the broke town of Henry Adams, Kansas--one of the last surviving townships founded by freed slaves after the Civil War--on eBay. Change it is a-comin'!

Erica Kennedy
Feminista. St. Martin's, 2009
Celebrity journalist Sydney Zamora feels her biological clock ticking but she is so independent & abrasive that she scares off potential suitors. So her rich sister secretly hires a $40,000-a-shot Manhattan matchmaker to land her a suitably wealthy Mr. Right, no matter how incompatible he may be.

Darrien Lee
Unspoken Us. Urban, 2010
While trying to bolster their shaky marriage for the sake of the kids, Cherise McKenzie, an Atlanta crime scene investigator, and her detective husband Mason, find their relationship tested by tragedy and unresolved feelings from Brotherly Love (2006).

Bernice McFadden
Glorious. Akashic, 2010
Tells the story of Easter Bartlett from 1910 onwards as her life-journey takes her from the Jim Crow violence of Waycross, Georgia, to the promise of the Harlem Renaissance and the days of the civil rights movement.

Vanessa Miller
Abundant Rain. UrbanC Christian, 2008
Elizabeth Underwood's world comes crashing down when her husband is supposedly killed in the 9/11 attacks. Things get even more complicated years later, when he reappears.

J. J. Murray
The Real Thing. Kensington, 2010
Reclusive, former boxing champion Dante "Blood and Guts" Lattanza will break his silence and allow reporter Christiana Artis interview him for Personality magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue only if she agrees to a deal wherein she must complete 5 tasks in exchange for 5 questions. Slowly but surely, the line between personal and professional gets blurred for both journalist and subject.

Victoria Christopher Murray
Lady Jasmine. S&S, 2009
Having endured the humiliation of confessing her shameful secrets in order to save her marriage to her minister husband, Jasmine Buch is subsequently blackmailed about another indiscretion from her past she had neglected to reveal, and now she is willing to commit any sin -- even murder -- to keep her past behind her.

Kendra Norman-Bellamy
Fifteen Years. Moody, 2010
15 years after being taken from his loving foster family and returned to his negligent birth mother, 29-year-old Jonah Tillman is unhappy wife his life in spite of the success he has achieved and decides to reconnect with the Smiths. The reunion helps renew his faith in God while and he begins to believe that his foster sister is the woman who can fill the emptiness in his heart.

Kayla Perrin
Spring Break. Griffin, 2010
Three best friends, Chantelle, Erica, and Ashley, leave their college outside of Philadelphia for the Caribbean island of Artulato have some fun in the sun. But the trip takes a dangerous turn when Ashley disappears after a falling out with her boyfriend.

Eric Pete
Crushed Ice. Urban, 2010
While he tries to develop a relationship with Collette, blinded from a horrific accident caused by him, Truth North, a smooth-talking mercenary assassin and master of disguise, goes up against a faceless enemy who is out to expose his real identity and kill him.

Kimerla Lawson Roby
Be Careful What You Pray For. Mira, 2010
Her first marriage didn't work out, but that isn't going to stop Alicia Black, the privileged daughter of the charismatic and controversial Rev. Curtis Black, from getting what she wants. God has heeded her prayers, blessing her with Pastor handsome, dynamic JT Valentine. But is he truly the answer to her prayers?

Kennedy Shaw
Tour of Duty. Urban, 2009
Escaping from the dangerous grasp of her ex-lover, a powerful Senator, Mikerra Stone ends up in Texas where she encounters her high school sweetheart Drake Harrington. Drake has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq suffering from a strange medical condition that is tied to secret government experiments run by the senator.

Kathryn Stockett
The Help. GPPS, 2009
When her best friend makes a political issue of not allowing the "help" to use the toilets in their employers' houses, recently graduated Skeeter decides to write a tell-all book in which the community's maids--their names disguised of course--talk about what it's like to work as a black maid in the South of the 1960s.

Faye Thompson
Cheesecake & Teardrops. Urban, 2009
Long-time best friends Charisma, Tangie, and Heather are all in the market for a good man and meet on a monthly basis for dinner, drinks and to discuss the latest in their quests for romance.

Mari Walker
Not Quite What it Seems. Griffin, 2010
"It's a funny thing how the body sometimes knows what's really going on with you before the mind does." After learning that her boyfriend has been lying to his family about her and might have even ruined her chances at getting a lead role in STOMP, dancer Jadyn decides to seek out her biological father and discovers more secrets than she ever could have imagined.

Tiffany L. Warren
The Bishop's Daughter. GCP, 2009
Journalist Darrin Bainbridge thinks he's onto something: do a story about those "Hollywood" ministers who hold their church services on television, live in nice houses, drive nice cars, and have lots of money and women. So he goes to Atlanta to expose one as a fraud--but he never planned on falling in love with the Bishop's daughter.

Damon Wayans
Red Hats. Atria, 2010
after a lifetime of wasteful cynicism, Alma finds herself widowed and lonely. That is until the "red hat" ladies—whom she once thought of as belonging to a strange sort of cult—help her to change her outlook on life.

Franklin White
First Round Lottery Pick. Urban, 2010
By the end of his senior year in high school, basketball star Langston Holiday is poised to escape the gritty public housing projects of Poindexter Village, better known as "The Vil." He now has to make the biggest decision of his life: go to college or enter the professional ranks. But who can he trust to help him make the best decision for him?

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