2005 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans
- Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
- Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt
- My Jim by Nancy Rawles
- The Untelling by Tayari Jones
- The Long Mile by Clyde W. Ford
- The Wave by Walter Mosley
- Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10) by Walter Mosley
- Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due
- Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
- Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black
- Voodoo Season by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery by Charlotte Carter
- Playing My Mother’s Blues by Valerie Wilson Wesley
- Resurrecting Langston Blue (CJ Floyd Mystery Series) by Robert Greer
- Fatal Justice by Faye Snowden
- Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
- God’s Gym: Stories by John Edgar Wideman
- I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories by William Henry Lewis
- The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legend, #4) by L.A. Banks
- The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legend, #5) by L.A. Banks