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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
 

  1. The Interruption of Everything
  2. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
  3. Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt (Young Readers)
  4. Confessions of a Video Vixen
  5. Gettin' Buck Wild : Sex Chronicles II
  6. The Sex Chronicles : Shattering the Myth
  7. Afterburn : A Novel
  8. Breaking the Cycle
  9. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
  10. Addicted : A Novel
  11. The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
  12. A Hustler's Wife
  13. Nervous: A Novel
  14. Race Matters
  15. A Project Chick
  16. HEAVEN
  17. Some People, Some Other Place
  18. The First Part Last (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
  19. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys)
  20. Miracle's Boys
  21. Forged By Fire
  22. Skyscraper
  23. Slam!
  24. The Mis-Education of the Negro
  25. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
  26. Bronx Masquerade (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
  27. Christmas In The Big House: Christmas in the Quarters
  28. Days Of Jubilee (Days of Jubilee)
  29. Her Stories (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
  30. Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
  31. The Heat Seekers
  32. The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
  33. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  34. A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
  35. Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
  36. Public Enemy #2 : An All-New Boondocks Collection
  37. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
  38. Genevieve
  39. Never Satisfied: How & Why Men Cheat
  40. Sheisty
  41. Still Sheisty
  42. A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version (B.C.P. Pamphlet)
  43. Black
  44. Dime Piece
  45. Flipside of The Game
  46. Shame on It All
  47. True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable
  48. Black Girl Lost
  49. Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
  50. The Best-Kept Secret
  51. Can't Get Enough : A Novel
  52. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
  53. Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
  54. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
  55. Is Bill Cosby Right?
  56. Let That Be the Reason
  57. Quiet Spaces: Prayer Interludes for Women
  58. Street Players
  59. The Coldest Winter Ever
  60. Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
  61. 72 Hour Hold
  62. B-More Careful
  63. Dopefiend
  64. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
  65. The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
  66. The Glamorous Life : A Novel
  67. Around the Way Girls
  68. Blinded
  69. Chyna Black
  70. Drive Me Crazy
  71. Lookin' for Luv
  72. Mama
  73. Naughty Or Nice
  74. Satan, I'm Taking Back My Health!
  75. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni : 1968-1998
  76. The Other Woman
  77. Within The Shadows
  78. Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom
  79. A Gangster's Girl
  80. Bad Girlz : A Novel
  81. Bourbon Street
  82. Crack Head
  83. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines
  84. Dutch II: Angel's Revenge
  85. Dutch: The First of a Trilogy
  86. From Superman to Man
  87. Gangsta
  88. G-Spot : An urban erotic tale by Noire
  89. Imagine This
  90. Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
  91. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands : The Old World
  92. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
  93. Tastes Like Chicken
  94. The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School
  95. The Isis Papers
  96. White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief
  97. A Day Late and a Dollar Short
  98. Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
  99. Behind Closed Doors
  100. Birth of a Nation : A Comic Novel
  101. Black Gangster
  102. Boss Lady
  103. Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
  104. Devil In The Mist
  105. Every Thug Needs a Lady
  106. Flyy Girl
  107. Game Over
  108. Inner City Hoodlum
  109. Invisible Man
  110. Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
  111. Mis-Education of the Negro
  112. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
  113. No Disrespect
  114. The Amazing Adventures of Abiola
  115. The Taming of Jessi Rose (Avon Romance)
  116. Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
  117. Too Much of a Good Thing
  118. Vivid
  119. Who Does She Think She Is? : A Novel
  120. Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
  121. Wifey
  122. Always and Forever
  123. Autobiography of Malcolm X
  124. Cooking with Grease : Stirring the Pots in American Politics
  125. Death List
  126. Echoes of a Distant Summer
  127. Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection
  128. Grimey
  129. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
  130. Kenyatta's Last Hit
  131. Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms
  132. Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
  133. Love Poems
  134. Married Men
  135. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968. (Ebony Picture Biography Series)
  136. Men Cry in the Dark
  137. Never Die Alone
  138. On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men
  139. Pimp: The Story of My Life
  140. Playing My Mother's Blues
  141. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
  142. Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet's Handbook
  143. She (w/o CD) : (NS)
  144. Silent Conspiracy: A Lincoln Keller Mystery
  145. Somebody's Gotta Be on Top
  146. The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto
  147. The Future Has a Past : Stories
  148. The Million Dollar Divorce : A Novel
  149. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
  150. Threesome : Where Seduction, Power & Basketball Collide
  151. Topaz (Avon Historical Romance)
  152. , said the shotgun to the head.
  153. A Lesson Before Dying : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback))
  154. A Piece of Mine
  155. Afterburn
  156. 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
  157. Around The Way Girls 2
  158. Black Mother Goose Book
  159. Black Students / Middle Class Teachers
  160. Casting the First Stone
  161. Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
  162. Disappearing Acts
  163. Distant Lover
  164. Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
  165. For the Love of Money : A Novel
  166. Freedom in this Village : Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present
  167. Heat Seekers
  168. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
  169. Kenyattas Escape
  170. Latter Rain
  171. Leaving Cecil Street : A Novel
  172. My Life
  173. My Woman His Wife
  174. Night Song
  175. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
  176. Push
  177. Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
  178. Sisters You Don't Have To Settle!
  179. Slavery and the Making of America
  180. Some Love, Some Pain, Some Time: Stories
  181. Speak, So You Can Speak Again : The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
  182. Swamp Man
  183. The Bluest Eye
  184. The Darkest Child: A Novel
  185. The Maintenance Man : A Novel
  186. The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
  187. The Midnight Hour (A Madaris Family Novel)
  188. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Dover Thrift Editions)
  189. The Tribe
  190. The Velvet Rope
  191. Unfinished Business
  192. What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know : The Real Deal on Love and Relationships
  193. A Chance at Love (Avon Romance)
  194. A Dollar and a Dream
  195. A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
  196. A Hood Legend
  197. A Whole Lotta Love
  198. Another Man's Wife : A Novel
  199. Any Rich Man Will Do
  200. Baby Momma Drama
  201. Belle and the Beau (An Avon True Romance)
  202. Better Than I Know Myself
  203. Beyond the Down Low : Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
  204. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
  205. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
  206. Camilla's Roses
  207. Cheaters
  208. Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))
  209. Criminal Minded
  210. Cry Me a River
  211. Dark Corner
  212. Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
  213. Deadly Reigns
  214. Diary of A Lost Girl: The Autobiography Of Kola Boof
  215. Dirty Money
  216. Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success
  217. Does Your House Have Lions ?
  218. Drama Factor
  219. Drug Related
  220. Family
  221. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
  222. God's Gift to Women : A Novel
  223. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
  224. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  225. In My Bedroom
  226. It Is What It Is : Shame on It All, Again
  227. Journey to Justice
  228. Joy
  229. Just As I Am : A Novel
  230. LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About
  231. Liar's Game
  232. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
  233. Life of Pi
  234. Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process
  235. Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
  236. Men Cheat Women Experiment
  237. My Face Is Black Is True : Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
  238. My Jim
  239. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  240. No One Is Innocent (Jasmine Myers Mysteries)
  241. Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This
  242. P.G. County
  243. Pimpin' from the Pulpit to the Pews
  244. Player Haters
  245. Raising Black Children
  246. Righteous Riches: The Word Of Faith Movement In Contemporary African American Religion
  247. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
  248. Secondhand Lions
  249. Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
  250. Something Like Love (Avon Romance)
  251. Song of Solomon
  252. Standing at the Scratch Line : A Novel
  253. Step into a World : A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
  254. Street Life
  255. Sugar
  256. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary -Thumb-Indexed Version
  257. The Billion Dollar BET : Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television
  258. The Blackbird Papers : A Novel
  259. The Bondwoman's Narrative
  260. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
  261. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
  262. The Preacher's Son
  263. The Seventh Octave: The early writings of Saul Williams
  264. The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
  265. The Urban Guide to Biblical Money Management
  266. The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
  267. The Wendy Williams Experience
  268. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
  269. The Womanizers
  270. Through the Storm
  271. Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only
  272. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  273. Until There Was You (Arabesque)
  274. Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
  275. Visions for Black Men
  276. What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
  277. What You Owe Me
  278. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
  279. Wifebeater
  280. With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
  281. WORLD'S GREAT MEN OF COLOR, VOLUME I
  282. You and No Other
  283. 2005 Writers Market (Writer's Market)
  284. 2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))
  285. 360: A Revolution of Black Poets
  286. A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  287. A Gathering of Old Men (Vintage Contemporaries)
  288. A House Is Not a Home : A B-Boy Blues Novel
  289. A Long Way from Home
  290. A Love of My Own : A Novel
  291. A Personal Matter
  292. A Raisin in the Sun
  293. A Small Nation of People : W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
  294. A Song Flung Up to Heaven
  295. A Twist of Fate (Love Spectrum Romance)
  296. A Woman's Worth : A Novel (Strivers Row)
  297. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems
  298. African People in World History (Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture)
  299. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
  300. Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
  301. Ain't No Mountain
  302. Althea
  303. An All Night Man
  304. Another Country
  305. Another Good Loving Blues
  306. Arc of Justice : A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
  307. ASIN 0060776536
  308. Autobiography of Josiah Henson : An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
  309. Babylon Sisters : A Novel
  310. Best Black Gay Erotica
  311. Biblical History of Black Mankind
  312. Big Girls Don't Cry
  313. Black Coffee : A Novel
  314. Black Like Me
  315. Black Rednecks And White Liberals
  316. Black Wings & Blind Angels : Poems
  317. Blackgentlemen.com
  318. Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Book of Black Heroes)
  319. Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
  320. Breaking Ice : An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
  321. Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)
  322. Brothers and Sisters
  323. Brown Sugar 4 Secret Desires: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
  324. Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
  325. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
  326. Call and Response the Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Anthology of African-American Literature)
  327. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  328. Crackhead
  329. Cream
  330. Crime Partners
  331. Dad Interrupted: A Novel
  332. Dark salvation: The story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America (C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion)
  333. Dark Thirst
  334. Dear G-Spot
  335. Diamond Drought
  336. Dirty Bird Blues
  337. Do or Die
  338. Dollar Bill
  339. Don't Want No Sugar
  340. Douglass' Women : A Novel
  341. Driven
  342. Eldorado Red (Reissue ed)
  343. Elmer and the Dragon
  344. Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
  345. Essence Brings You Great Cooking
  346. Essential Defenders Volume 1 TPB (Essential)
  347. Essential Luke Cage Power Man Volume 1 TPB (Essential (Marvel Comics))
  348. Fighting for Your Life: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide
  349. Five Negro Presidents
  350. Flesh and the Devil
  351. FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
  352. Friends and Lovers
  353. From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
  354. Future Has a Past
  355. Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
  356. Giovanni's Room
  357. Girls from da' Hood
  358. God Don't Like Ugly
  359. Handsome Me
  360. Harlem
  361. Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
  362. Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
  363. How to Write a Damn Good Novel : A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling (How to Write a Damn Good Novel)
  364. Howard Street
  365. I Can't Walk So I'll Learn to Dance
  366. I Did It! You Can Too!!
  367. I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
  368. I'll Be Your Shelter (Love Spectrum Romance)
  369. In Search of Satisfaction
  370. In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want
  371. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)
  372. Invisible Life
  373. Iron Pot Cooker [Bonus Tracks]
  374. Jelly Roll : A Blues
  375. Joplin's Ghost : A Novel
  376. Just Say No! : A Novel
  377. Know Thy Self
  378. Larceny
  379. Leslie
  380. Lesson Before Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)
  381. Let the Church Say Amen
  382. Let's Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers
  383. Let's Get It On
  384. Life, Love & Loneliness
  385. Like the First Time
  386. Little Lion Goes to School
  387. Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women
  388. Love
  389. Love Thy sister... Watch Thy Back
  390. Low Road : The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
  391. Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
  392. Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America
  393. Making the Most of Your Money
  394. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
  395. Mama Dip's Kitchen
  396. Manchild in the Promised Land
  397. Me and My Boyfriend
  398. Memoir: Delaware County Prison
  399. Mercy, Mercy Me
  400. Mirror to America : The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
  401. Mixed Messages
  402. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
  403. Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman
  404. My Father's Dragon
  405. My One Good Nerve
  406. My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
  407. My Soul to Keep
  408. Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof
  409. No More Sheets: The Truth About Sex
  410. Nubian Passion: A Collection of Six Sensual Romance Short Stories
  411. Pass It on: African-American Poetry for Children
  412. Patchwork Girl
  413. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
  414. Promises to Keep : A Novel (Strivers Row)
  415. Psalm Twenty-Three
  416. Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
  417. SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN
  418. Scenes from a Sistah
  419. Sex in the Hood
  420. Sexual Healing
  421. Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
  422. She
  423. Short Stories of Langston Hughes
  424. Sister, Sister
  425. Skin Folk
  426. Someone to Love Me
  427. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
  428. Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
  429. Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South
  430. Spirited Minds: African American Books for Our Sons and Our Brothers
  431. Statehood Quarter Album (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
  432. Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not the Authours
  433. Straight, No Chaser : How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
  434. Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
  435. Street
  436. Strictly Confidential Attraction (Desire)
  437. Sula
  438. Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook : From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem
  439. Tar Baby
  440. The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
  441. The African-American Writer's Guide to Successful Self-Publishing
  442. The Africans Who Wrote the Bible
  443. The Assassination of the Black Male Image
  444. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
  445. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (Modern Library)
  446. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
  447. The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
  448. The Cornel West Reader
  449. The Criss Cross
  450. The Da Vinci Code
  451. The Divine Order: God First, Family Second, Career Third
  452. The Ebony Cookbook: A Date With a Dish
  453. The Ecstatic : A Novel
  454. The Friends
  455. The Game: Short Stories About The Life
  456. The Heart of a Woman
  457. The Known World
  458. The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World : 1941-1967 (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967)
  459. The Measure of a Man (Facets)
  460. The Measure Of A Man : A Spiritual Autobiography
  461. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours : The Poetry of Jill Scott
  462. The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present (The American Negro, his history and literature)
  463. The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection CD
  464. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Includes Audio CD)
  465. The Nu Naybahood Funetic Ebonic Dictionary
  466. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
  467. The Skin I'm in
  468. The Souls of Black Folk
  469. The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse
  470. The Third Life of Grange Copeland
  471. The Vulture and the Nigger Factory
  472. The Wake of the Wind : A Novel
  473. The Warmest December
  474. The Ways of White Folks : Stories (Vintage Classics)
  475. The White Boy Shuffle
  476. Things Fall Apart
  477. This Bitter Earth
  478. Tick Tock: A Novel
  479. Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men
  480. Train Whistle Guitar : A Novel (Vintage International)
  481. Trick Baby
  482. True Intentions (Mass Deception)
  483. TUMBLING
  484. Ugly Ways
  485. Upstate
  486. Volunteer Slavery : My Authentic Negro Experience
  487. Voodoo Dreams : A Novel of Marie Laveau
  488. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
  489. Wet : True Lesbian Sex Stories
  490. What's Really Holding You Back? : Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
  491. Who Made Me?
  492. Why I Love Black Women
  493. Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
  494. Wounded in the House of a Friend
  495. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
  496. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
  497. 47
  498. 1984
  499. 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
  500. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

 

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