2003 Adult Literary Fiction by Black Americans
- Too Beautiful to Die by Glenville Lovell
- As Wrong As Two Left Shoes by Teddy Hayes
- Rendezvous Eighteenth (American Mysteries in Paris #1) by Jake Lamar
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) by Henry Dumas
- Free: And Other Stories by Anika Nailah
- Love by Toni Morrison
- A Place between Stations by Stephanie Allen
- The Good House by Tananarive Due
- Jackson Park by Charlotte Carter
- Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8) by Walter Mosley
- Zulu Heart (Lion’s Blood, #2) by Steven Barnes
- Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reynolds
- Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1) by L.A. Banks
- Fear Itself (Fearless Jones, #2) by Walter Mosley
- Dead by Popular Demand: A Harlem Noir Featuring Devil Barnett by Teddy Hayes
- Daughter by Asha Bandele
- Those Who Walk in Darkness (Soledad O’Roark, #1) by John Ridley