2001 Adult Literary Fiction by Black Americans

  1. Breathing Room by Patricia Elam
  2. Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
  3. The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
  4. John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
  5. Erasure by Percival Everett
  6. He Sleeps by Reginald McKnight
  7. Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest
  8. Soulcatcher and Other Stories by Charles R. Johnson
  9. Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston
  10. Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson
  11. The Dying Ground by Nichelle D. Tramble
  12. October Suite by Maxine Clair
  13. Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1) by Walter Mosley
  14. The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden
  15. West of Rehoboth: A Novel by Alexs D. Pate
  16. Broken Ranks by Hiram King
  17. If 6 Were 9: A “Militant” Mystery by Jake Lamar
  18. Pipe Dream by Solomon Jones