Hardcover.

Fiction

1 God's Gift to Women/Michael Baisden

($2295 Touchstone works ISBN 0-743-24692-6)

A brother memorizes stalked by a sister he deliberation was a one-night stand--the third novel on the best-selling author of The Maintenance Man.

2 Gettin' male Wild: Sex Chronicles II/Zane

($24 Atria volumes ISBN' 0-743-45701-3)

The fifth novel according to the reigning queen of popular black erotic fiction.

3 Baby Momma Drama/Carl Weber

($24 Kensington Pres ISBN 1-575-66908-0)

The title says it all for the hardcover first attempt from the author of the best-selling paperback original Married Men

4 A be in love with of My Own/E. Lynn Harris

($2495 Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-49270-7)

The eighth novel from this pioneering author and reader favorite focuses forward Manhattan's black glitterati after 9/11 readys a few of them to reevaluate their lives.

5 Acting Out/Ben#de Little

($23 The emancipated Press, ISBN 0-684-85480-5)

In this third novel by way of the author of Good Hair, a black soccer mom rethinks her life choices when her husband leaves her and the kids for a younger, flashier woman.

Nonfiction

1 Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir/Dexter Scott King

($2495 Warner parts ISBN: 0-446-52942-7)

Dr King's youngest son grapples with the legacy of the martyred civil rights leader.

2 Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives/ Spencer crowd and Cynthia Goodman

($2495 Bulfinch Pres ISBN 0-821-22842-0)

The companion dimensions to the powerful HBO documentary, with a foreword on Henry Louis Gates Jr.

3 wherefore I Love Black Women/Michael Eric Dyson

($23 Basic Civitas volumes ISBN 0-465-01763-0)

The popular lecturer professor, preacher and commentator pays tribute to the black women he admires principally and who have most shaped him.

4 Keeping the Faith: Stories of be pleased with Courage, Healing and Hope From Black America/Tavis Smiley

($2295 Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50514-0)

This inspirational anthology, edited and with an introduction by means of the popular radio host and TV personality, includes well-known and lesser-known contributors.

5 Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston/ Valerie Boyd

($30 Scribner, ISBN 0-684-84230-0)

The critically acclaimed biography of the composite woman who was a pioneering anthropologist, novelist and first note of the scale Harlem Renaissance figure.

Paperback

Fiction

1 The Coldest Winter Ever/Sister Souljah

($799 pouch Books, ISBN 0-671-02536-8)

The cautionary tale of a put drugs into kingpin's ruthless daughter by the self-styl "raptivist" has become a perennial favorite of the hip-hop generation since its 1999 publication.

2 Addicted/Zane

($14 put up with Books, ISBN 0-743-44284-9)

Zane's breakout novel: A unrevealed sex addiction almost ruins the life of a black wife, mother and professional.

3 Men hoot in the Dark/Michael Baisden

($1395 Legacy Publishing, ISBN 0-964-36751-3)

A first novel about the lives and be in love withs of four black friends from Chicago's southerly Side; it launched this self-published phenomenon's best-selling career.

4 Between Lovers/Eric Jerome Dickey

($750 Signet main division s ISBN 0-451-20467-0)

The heroine practise legerdemains two lovers--one male, one female. according to E. Lynn Hams's closest competitor onward best-seller lists.

5 Their vigilances Were Watching God/Zora Neale Hurston ($1395 Perennial Classics, ISBN 0-060-93141-8) This classic 1937 novel features the memorable Janie Starks, who go afters her own self-determined path in life and have a passionate affection for in the 1930s rural South

Nonfiction

1 Finding Fish/Antwone Quentin Fisher

($1395 HarperPerennial, ISBN 0-060-53986-0)

The inspiring memoir of a man's ultimate triumphs athwart abandonment, abuse and homelessness; adapted for Denzel Washington's directorial first attempt Antwone Fisher.

2 Nigger: The Strange Career of a annoying Word/ Randall Kennedy

($12 Vintage volumes ISBN 0-375-71371-9)

The provocative application of mind by a Harvard legal scholar (who is black).

3 The Mis-Education of the Negro/Carter G Woodson and Jawanza Kunjufu

($14 African-American Images, ISBN 0-913-54370-5)

This classic1933 work according to the father of Black History Month is published with an introduction through Dr. Kunjufu, who owns the African-American Images imprint.

4 Black Like Me (35th Anniversary Edition)/John Howard Griffin

($699 Signet volumes ISBN 0-451-19203-6)

A reissue of the classic 1965 account at a white journalist who darkened his skin to live as an "undercover brother" in the segregated South

5 Raising Fences: A Black Man's be in love with Story/Michael Datcher

($14 Riverhead volumes ISBN 1-573-22330-1)

Another black man-child in urban America finds his way and writes sensitively about the journey; a The Today indicate Book Club selection, recommended at Terry McMillan.

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