Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
(Atria Books)

by Maryse Conde

The Dew Breaker
(Alfred A. Knopf)

by Edwidge Danticat

The Madonna of Excelsior
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)

by Zake Mda

Graceland
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)

by Chris Abani

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
(W.W. Norton)

by Alexis DeVeaux

The End of Blackness
(Pantheon Books)

by Debra J. Dickerson

A Continent for the Taking
(Alfred A. Knopf)

by Howard French

A Woman's Worth
(One World/Ballantine Books)

by Tracy Price-Thompson