2005 Adult Literary Fiction By Black Americans

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