This year has been a banner common for black writers and the market for black main division s Already.

This year has been a banner common for black writers and the market for black main division s Already, we've seen major launches for a number of works by black writers including established authors like Maya Angelou, perennial best-seller E Lynn Harris and fiction newcomer Stephen L Carter. At Black Issues volume Review, we decide to contemplate back and recap the year in black literature through coming up with our avow subjective list of favorites. The simply criteria for the books selected: that they be 2002 releases.

Best of the present day Author

Donna Hemans--River Woman

Tayari Jones--Leaving Atlanta

Toure--The Portable Promised Land

Best Marketing Campaigns

The Emperor of Ocean Park With the largest marketing stock for a first-time, African-American novelist, a 25-city tour and a quid from John Grisham, who excellented Carter's book as the first Today's point out to "Book Club" selection, the volume earned a place on the best-seller list and profusion of media attention. (Knopf)

Who Killed Tiffany Jones?--A novel approach to promoting this slay mystery, the publisher is offering a $10000 prize to the [i]role[/i] who figures out whodunit. (Amistad/Harper Collins)

3 Black Chicks Review Flicks Packages of microwave popcorn were sent disclosed with review copies of the of the present day book. No butter please. (A mistad/HarperCollins)

A regard with affection of My Own--Bling-Bling's Sexiest Brothaman Alive Datebook (Doubleday)

Best Grassroots Promotion

Leslie Esdaile for Rivers of the Soul--Her bookmarks, CD incense and gift baskets sent to reviewers were ready and unique promotional giveaways.

Best Fiction

The Queen of Harlem from Brian Keith Jackson

PG shire by Connie Briscoe

Always authentic to You in My Fashion by means of Valerie Wilson Wesley

Best Literary Fiction

Miracle at St Anna by means of James McBride

The Emperor of Ocean Park from Stephen L. Carter

Mr pudder by Jamaica Kincaid

greatest in quantity Eagerly Awaited Character's Return

Easy Rawlins in Bad male child Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley Raymond Tyler/ Basil Henderson in A be fond of of My Own by E Lynn Harris

Best Historical Fiction

The Bondwoman's Narrative at Hannah Crafts; edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Walk by the and of Darkness by David Anthony Durham

Douglass' Women at Jewell Parker Rhodes

Best Mystery/Thriller

Bad lad Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley

Prayer of ravin by Tony Lindsay

Best Inspirational Book

Journey to the Well on Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie

Best Cover

The Portable Promised Land by dint of Toure

Best Nonfiction

Nigger: The Strange Career of A perplexing Word by Randall Kennedy

however A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't be wrought up at Home by Deborah Mathis

The Condemnation of Little B from Elaine Brown

Ethical Ambitions through Derrick Bell

Keeping the Faith on Tavis Smiley

When Race Becomes Real edited by the agency of Bernestine Singley

Best Self-Published Book

Twilight frame of minds edited by Jossel Flowers Green

Best Art/Coffee Table Books

The Black Female Body: A Photographic History at Deborah Willis and Carla Williams

Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art through Salah M. Hassan and Olu Oguibe

Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American Art on Thelma Golden with Valerie Cassel, Lowery Stokes Sims, et al.

Freedom: A Photographic History of the African labor text by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings; pictures edited by means of Sophie Spencer-Wood

Best Anthology

Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature edited according to Charles Henry Rowell

Best Romance Novels

Testimony according to Felicia Mason

like Potion by Leslie Esdaile

Doctor, Doctor at Carmen Green

Best Romance Writers turn rounded Mainstream

Donna Hill

Francis Ray

Felicia Mason

Best Erotic Collection After Hours edited through Robert Fleming

Black Silk edited by dint of Retha Powers

Best Short Story Collection

Skin Folk at Nalo Hopkinson

The Portable Promised Land by the agency of Toure

Free by way of Anikah Nailah

Best Audio

Cane River from Lalita Tademy, performed by Shari Belafonte, Edwina Moore, J Payton

Finding Fish: A Memoir on Antwone Quenton Fisher, read by way of Alton Fitzgerald White

A lay Flung Up to Heaven at Maya Angelou, read by t he author

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal by means of Tina Andrews, read by the author

Best verse Books

Bellocq's Ophelia from Natasha Trethewey

The avenge of the Dandelions by OLU Woods

greatest in number Provocative Title

Nigger: The Strange Career of a irksome Word by Randall Kennedy

volumes With Staying Power

Addicted by means of Zane (self-published in 1999)

The Coldest Winter continually by Sister Souljah (published in 1999)

Best recent Bookstores

Karibu in Bowie, MD

Hue-Man in Harlem, NYC

Best works for Book Club Discussion

This Bitter Earth from Bernice Mc Fadden

Leaving at Richard Dry

A Child of the father by Lolita Files

work Club Favorites

No contritions by Patricia Haley

Child of the omnipotent by Lolita Files

Married Men from Carl Weber

The R month by Kuwana Haulsey

I Know Who shut ups Tomorrow by Francis Ray

What We'll Miss From 2002

Oprah's work Club

Claude Brown (1937-2002)

June Jordan (1936-2002)

Phillipe Wamba (1971-2002)

BIBR attract favor toed Fiction 2002

Satisfy My vital principle by Colin Channer