Before I can produce a top ten I need to list the 50 Black books that I read this year. This compiliation does not include every book written by an African American author, but is a list of the books I have reviewed this year that were written by African American authors. If you would like your book on the 2005 list see my website and my book review submission guidelines.
The List- 2004
A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed
A Love So Strong by Kendra Norman-Bellamy
A Love Worth Fighting For Katherine D. Jones
A Woman's Worth by Tracey Price-Thompson
All that Drama by Tina McKinney
All the Man I Need by Tamara Sneed
At Last by Lisa Riley
Baby Momma Drama by Carl Weber
Back to Life by Wendy Coakley-Thomas
Before I Let Go by Darren Coleman
Betrayal of Trust by Leslie Esdaile Banks
Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Bling by Erica Kennedy
Boaz Brown by Michele Simpson
Camilia's Roses by Bernice McFadden
Date Night by Carmen Green
Distant Lover by Gloria Mallette
Diva, Inc. by Donna Hill
Drive me Crazy by EJD
Dying in the Dark by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Enchanted Heart by Felicia Mason
Fannin the Flames by Parry Brown
Flippin the Script by Aisha Ford
Gotham Diaries by Tonya Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony
Guarded Love by Altonya Washington
Kissed by Carmen Green
Leaving Cecil Street by Diana McKinney-Whetstone
Lemon City by Elaine Merge Brown
Logic by Olympia Vernon
Love and Death in Brooklyn by Glenville Lovell
Mama's Baby Daddy's Maybe by Jamise Dames
Married, but Still Looking by Travis Hunter
Mississippi Blues by Cassandra Darden-Bell
My Daughter's Boyfriend by Cydney Rax
Passint Through by Collin Channer
Promises to Keep Gloria Mallette
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do Pearl Cleage
Somebody Gotta Be on Top by Mary M. Morrison
Sorority Sister by TJ Butler
Soul's Juorney by Jacqueline Thomas
Tastes like Chicken by Lolita Files
The Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat
The First Thing Smoking by Nelson Eubanks
the Hamptons by Linda Domique Grosevenor
The Hunted by L.A. Banks
The Interruption of Everything by Terri McMillan
The Playa's Handbook by Brenda Jackson
Truth be Told by Victoria Christopher-Murray
Whatever Lola Wants by Nique Stanhope
When Everything's Said & Done by Ebonie Snoe
Worth the Wait Katherine D. Jones
A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed
A Love So Strong by Kendra Norman-Bellamy
A Love Worth Fighting For Katherine D. Jones
A Woman's Worth by Tracey Price-Thompson
All that Drama by Tina McKinney
All the Man I Need by Tamara Sneed
At Last by Lisa Riley
Baby Momma Drama by Carl Weber
Back to Life by Wendy Coakley-Thomas
Before I Let Go by Darren Coleman
Betrayal of Trust by Leslie Esdaile Banks
Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Bling by Erica Kennedy
Boaz Brown by Michele Simpson
Camilia's Roses by Bernice McFadden
Date Night by Carmen Green
Distant Lover by Gloria Mallette
Diva, Inc. by Donna Hill
Drive me Crazy by EJD
Dying in the Dark by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Enchanted Heart by Felicia Mason
Fannin the Flames by Parry Brown
Flippin the Script by Aisha Ford
Gotham Diaries by Tonya Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony
Guarded Love by Altonya Washington
Kissed by Carmen Green
Leaving Cecil Street by Diana McKinney-Whetstone
Lemon City by Elaine Merge Brown
Logic by Olympia Vernon
Love and Death in Brooklyn by Glenville Lovell
Mama's Baby Daddy's Maybe by Jamise Dames
Married, but Still Looking by Travis Hunter
Mississippi Blues by Cassandra Darden-Bell
My Daughter's Boyfriend by Cydney Rax
Passint Through by Collin Channer
Promises to Keep Gloria Mallette
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do Pearl Cleage
Somebody Gotta Be on Top by Mary M. Morrison
Sorority Sister by TJ Butler
Soul's Juorney by Jacqueline Thomas
Tastes like Chicken by Lolita Files
The Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat
The First Thing Smoking by Nelson Eubanks
the Hamptons by Linda Domique Grosevenor
The Hunted by L.A. Banks
The Interruption of Everything by Terri McMillan
The Playa's Handbook by Brenda Jackson
Truth be Told by Victoria Christopher-Murray
Whatever Lola Wants by Nique Stanhope
When Everything's Said & Done by Ebonie Snoe
Worth the Wait Katherine D. Jones