AALBC.com's
500 Best Selling Books for 2005
In
2005 AALBC.com sold over 1,800 different titles. The 500 best selling
titles are shown below
The Interruption of Everything- Who's Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
- Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt (Young Readers)
- Confessions of a Video Vixen
- Gettin' Buck Wild : Sex Chronicles II
- The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
- Afterburn : A Novel
- Breaking the Cycle
- Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
- Addicted : A Novel
- The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
- A Hustler's Wife
- Nervous: A Novel
- Race Matters
- A Project Chick
- HEAVEN
- Some People, Some Other Place
- The First Part Last (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
- Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys)
- Miracle's Boys
- Forged By Fire
- Skyscraper
- Slam!
- The Mis-Education of the Negro
- 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
Bronx Masquerade (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)- Christmas In The Big House: Christmas in the Quarters
- Days Of Jubilee (Days of Jubilee)
- Her Stories (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
- The Heat Seekers
- The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
- Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
- Public Enemy #2 : An All-New Boondocks Collection
- Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- Genevieve
- Never Satisfied: How & Why Men Cheat
- Sheisty
- Still Sheisty
- A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version (B.C.P. Pamphlet)
- Black
- Dime Piece
- Flipside of The Game
- Shame on It All
- True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable
- Black Girl Lost
- Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
- The Best-Kept Secret
Can't Get Enough : A Novel- Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
- Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
- Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
- Is Bill Cosby Right?
- Let That Be the Reason
- Quiet Spaces: Prayer Interludes for Women
- Street Players
- The Coldest Winter Ever
- Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
- 72 Hour Hold
- B-More Careful
- Dopefiend
- Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
- The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
- The Glamorous Life : A Novel
- Around the Way Girls
- Blinded
- Chyna Black
- Drive Me Crazy
- Lookin' for Luv
- Mama
- Naughty Or Nice
- Satan, I'm Taking Back My Health!
- The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni : 1968-1998
- The Other Woman
- Within The Shadows
- Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom
- A Gangster's Girl
- Bad Girlz : A Novel
- Bourbon Street
- Crack Head
- Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines
- Dutch II: Angel's Revenge
- Dutch: The First of a Trilogy
- From Superman to Man
- Gangsta
- G-Spot : An urban erotic tale by Noire
- Imagine This
- Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
- Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands : The Old World
- Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
- Tastes Like Chicken
- The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School
- The Isis Papers
- White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
- Behind Closed Doors
Birth of a Nation : A Comic Novel- Black Gangster
- Boss Lady
- Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
- Devil In The Mist
- Every Thug Needs a Lady
- Flyy Girl
- Game Over
- Inner City Hoodlum
- Invisible Man
- Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
- Mis-Education of the Negro
- Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
- No Disrespect
- The Amazing Adventures of Abiola
- The Taming of Jessi Rose (Avon Romance)
- Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- Vivid
- Who Does She Think She Is? : A Novel
- Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
- Wifey
- Always and Forever
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Cooking with Grease : Stirring the Pots in American Politics
- Death List
- Echoes of a Distant Summer
- Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection
- Grimey
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
- Kenyatta's Last Hit
- Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms
- Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- Love Poems
- Married Men
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968. (Ebony Picture Biography Series)
- Men Cry in the Dark
- Never Die Alone
- On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men
- Pimp: The Story of My Life
- Playing My Mother's Blues
- Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
- Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet's Handbook
- She (w/o CD) : (NS)
- Silent Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery
- Somebody's Gotta Be on Top
- The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto
- The Future Has a Past : Stories
- The Million Dollar Divorce : A Novel
- They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
- Threesome : Where Seduction, Power & Basketball Collide
- Topaz (Avon Historical Romance)
- , said the shotgun to the head.
- A Lesson Before Dying : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback))
A Piece of Mine- Afterburn
- An Antebellum Life at Sea: Featuring the Journal of Sarah Jane Girdler, Kept Aboard the Clipper Ship, Robert H. Dixey, from America to Russia and Euro
- Around The Way Girls 2
- Black Mother Goose Book
- Black Students / Middle Class Teachers
- Casting the First Stone
- Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Disappearing Acts
- Distant Lover
- Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
- For the Love of Money : A Novel
- Freedom in this Village : Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present
- Heat Seekers
- I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Kenyattas Escape
- Latter Rain
- Leaving Cecil Street : A Novel
- My Life
- My Woman His Wife
- Night Song
- Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
- Push
- Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
- Sisters You Don't Have To Settle!
- Slavery and the Making of America
- Some Love, Some Pain, Some Time: Stories
- Speak, So You Can Speak Again : The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
- Swamp Man
- The Bluest Eye
- The Darkest Child: A Novel
- The Maintenance Man : A Novel
- The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
- The Midnight Hour (A Madaris Family Novel)
- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)
- The Tribe
- The Velvet Rope
- Unfinished Business
- What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know : The Real Deal on Love and Relationships
- A Chance at Love (Avon Romance)
- A Dollar and a Dream
- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
- A Hood Legend
- A Whole Lotta Love
- Another Man's Wife : A Novel
- Any Rich Man Will Do
Baby Momma Drama- Belle and the Beau (An Avon True Romance)
- Better Than I Know Myself
- Beyond the Down Low : Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
- Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
- Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
- Camilla's Roses
- Cheaters
- Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))
- Criminal Minded
- Cry Me a River
- Dark Corner
- Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
- Deadly Reigns
- Diary of A Lost Girl: The Autobiography Of Kola Boof
- Dirty Money
- Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success
- Does Your House Have Lions ?
- Drama Factor
- Drug Related
- Family
- Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
- God's Gift to Women : A Novel
- Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- In My Bedroom
- It Is What It Is : Shame on It All, Again
- Journey to Justice
- Joy
- Just As I Am : A Novel
- LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About
- Liar's Game
- Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
- Life of Pi
- Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process
- Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
- Men Cheat Women Experiment
- My Face Is Black Is True : Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
- My Jim
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- No One Is Innocent (Jasmine Myers Mysteries)
- Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This
- P.G. County
- Pimpin' from the Pulpit to the Pews
- Player Haters
- Raising Black Children
- Righteous Riches: The Word Of Faith Movement In Contemporary African American Religion
- Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
- Secondhand Lions
- Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
Something Like Love (Avon Romance)- Song of Solomon
- Standing at the Scratch Line : A Novel
- Step into a World : A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
- Street Life
- Sugar
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary -Thumb-Indexed Version
- The Billion Dollar BET : Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television
- The Blackbird Papers : A Novel
- The Bondwoman's Narrative
- The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
- The Preacher's Son
- The Seventh Octave: The early writings of Saul Williams
- The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
- The Urban Guide to Biblical Money Management
- The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
- The Wendy Williams Experience
- The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- The Womanizers
- Through the Storm
- Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- Until There Was You (Arabesque)
- Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Visions for Black Men
- What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
- What You Owe Me
- Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
- Wifebeater
- With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
- WORLD'S GREAT MEN OF COLOR, VOLUME I
- You and No Other
- 2005 Writers Market (Writer's Market)
- 2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))
- 360: A Revolution of Black Poets
- A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
- A House Is Not a Home : A B-Boy Blues Novel
- A Long Way from Home
- A Love of My Own : A Novel
- A Personal Matter
- A Raisin in the Sun
- A Small Nation of People : W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
- A Song Flung Up to Heaven
- A Twist of Fate (Love Spectrum Romance)
- A Woman's Worth : A Novel (Strivers Row)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems
- African People in World History (Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture)
- African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism- Ain't No Mountain
- Althea
- An All Night Man
- Another Country
- Another Good Loving Blues
- Arc of Justice : A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
- ASIN 0060776536
- Autobiography of Josiah Henson : An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- Babylon Sisters : A Novel
- Best Black Gay Erotica
- Biblical History of Black Mankind
- Big Girls Don't Cry
- Black Coffee : A Novel
- Black Like Me
- Black Rednecks And White Liberals
- Black Wings & Blind Angels : Poems
- Blackgentlemen.com
- Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Book of Black Heroes)
- Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
- Breaking Ice : An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
- Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)
- Brothers and Sisters
- Brown Sugar 4 Secret Desires: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
- Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
- Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
- Call and Response the Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Anthology of African-American Literature)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Crackhead
- Cream
- Crime Partners
- Dad Interrupted: A Novel
- Dark salvation: The story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America (C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion)
- Dark Thirst
- Dear G-Spot
- Diamond Drought
- Dirty Bird Blues
- Do or Die
- Dollar Bill
- Don't Want No Sugar
- Douglass' Women : A Novel
- Driven
- Eldorado Red (Reissue ed)
- Elmer and the Dragon
- Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
- Essence Brings You Great Cooking
- Essential Defenders Volume 1 TPB (Essential)
- Essential Luke Cage Power Man Volume 1 TPB (Essential (Marvel Comics))
- Fighting for Your Life: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide
- Five Negro Presidents
- Flesh and the Devil
- FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
- Friends and Lovers
From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews- Future Has a Past
- Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
- Giovanni's Room
- Girls from da' Hood
- God Don't Like Ugly
- Handsome Me
- Harlem
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
- Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
- How to Write a Damn Good Novel : A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling (How to Write a Damn Good Novel)
- Howard Street
- I Can't Walk So I'll Learn to Dance
- I Did It! You Can Too!!
- I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
- I'll Be Your Shelter (Love Spectrum Romance)
- In Search of Satisfaction
- In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Invisible Life
- Iron Pot Cooker [Bonus Tracks]
- Jelly Roll : A Blues
- Joplin's Ghost : A Novel
- Just Say No! : A Novel
- Know Thy Self
- Larceny
- Leslie
- Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Let the Church Say Amen
- Let's Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers
- Let's Get It On
- Life, Love & Loneliness
- Like the First Time
- Little Lion Goes to School
- Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women
- Love
- Love Thy sister... Watch Thy Back
- Low Road : The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
- Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
- Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America
- Making the Most of Your Money
- Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
- Mama Dip's Kitchen
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Me and My Boyfriend
- Memoir: Delaware County Prison
- Mercy, Mercy Me
Mirror to America : The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin- Mixed Messages
- Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
- Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman
- My Father's Dragon
- My One Good Nerve
- My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
- My Soul to Keep
- Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof
- No More Sheets: The Truth About Sex
- Nubian Passion: A Collection of Six Sensual Romance Short Stories
- Pass It on: African-American Poetry for Children
- Patchwork Girl
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Promises to Keep : A Novel (Strivers Row)
- Psalm Twenty-Three
- Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
- SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN
- Scenes from a Sistah
- Sex in the Hood
- Sexual Healing
- Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
- She
- Short Stories of Langston Hughes
- Sister, Sister
- Skin Folk
- Someone to Love Me
- Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
- Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
- Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South
- Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers
- Statehood Quarter Album (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
- Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not the Authours
- Straight, No Chaser : How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
- Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
- Street
- Strictly Confidential Attraction (Desire)
- Sula
- Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook : From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem
- Tar Baby
- The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
- The African-American Writer's Guide to Successful Self-Publishing
- The Africans Who Wrote the Bible
- The Assassination of the Black Male Image
- The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
- The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (Modern Library)
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
- The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
- The Cornel West Reader
- The Criss Cross
- The Da Vinci Code
The Divine Order: God First, Family Second, Career Third- The Ebony Cookbook: A Date With a Dish
- The Ecstatic : A Novel
- The Friends
- The Game: Short Stories About The Life
- The Heart of a Woman
- The Known World
- The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World : 1941-1967 (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967)
- The Measure of a Man (Facets)
- The Measure Of A Man : A Spiritual Autobiography
- The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours : The Poetry of Jill Scott
- The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present (The American Negro, his history and literature)
- The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection CD
- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Includes Audio CD)
- The Nu Naybahood Funetic Ebonic Dictionary
- The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
- The Skin I'm in
- The Souls of Black Folk
- The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland
- The Vulture and the Nigger Factory
- The Wake of the Wind : A Novel
- The Warmest December
- The Ways of White Folks : Stories (Vintage Classics)
- The White Boy Shuffle
- Things Fall Apart
- This Bitter Earth
- Tick Tock: A Novel
- Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men
- Train Whistle Guitar : A Novel (Vintage International)
- Trick Baby
- True Intentions (Mass Deception)
- TUMBLING
- Ugly Ways
- Upstate
- Volunteer Slavery : My Authentic Negro Experience
- Voodoo Dreams : A Novel of Marie Laveau
- We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
- Wet : True Lesbian Sex Stories
- What's Really Holding You Back? : Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
Who Made Me?- Why I Love Black Women
- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- Wounded in the House of a Friend
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
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- 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
- 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing
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