Happy New Year!
As mentioned in last month’s 5 on the Fifth Column, we have compiled a listing of The RAW Reviewers’ Favorites for 2009, as featured on Blogging in Black. Our team read hundreds of books last year, but we only spotlight 5 a month via this column, so be sure to check out http://www.blackbookreviews.net to see other titles which made it to our favorites list.
We look forward to sharing more great books with you in 2010!
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January 2009
Once You’ve Touched The Heart by Iris Bolling
The Hood Life: A Bentley Manor Tale by Meesha Mink and Denesha Diamond
What Doesn’t Kill You by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Zora Hurston And The Strange Case of Ruby McCollum by C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D
Moving The Furniture by Barbara Joe Williams
February 2009
Fire and Desire by Brenda Jackson
He’s Gone… You’re Back by Kericka Fields
Playbook For Christian Manhood: 12 Keys Plays For Black Teen Boys by Dr. James C. Perkins
It’s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends by Marita Golden
The Journey Less Traveled: Choose to Turn Your Tragedy into Triumph by Loretta “Faith†Harris
March 2009
Where The Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Too Much of A Good Thing by J.J. Murray
In Love With A Younger Man by Cheryl Robinson
Cop Out by Robert Davis
Until There Was You by Francis Ray
April 2009
Til Debt Do Us Part by Michelle Larks
That Devil’s No Friend of Mine by JD Mason
Freedom By Any Means: Con Games, Voodoo Scheme, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad by Betty DeRamus
Caged Innocence by A.P. Ri’Chard
Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia: A Life in Poems by Patricia Neely-Dorsey
May 2009
Going Down South by Bonnie Glover
Serving Justice by Jacqueline D. Moore
The Black Man’s Little Book of Encouragement by Cassandra Mack
Just Loving You by Frederick Williams
Cop Out by Robert Davis
June 2009
The Way We Roll: A Bama Gamma Pi Novel by Stephanie Perry Moore
Finding Grace On A Less Traveled Road: A Cancer Doctor Reflects on Living and Dying by R. Elliot Willis, MD
Assata and The Secret of The Cowrie by Vickie M. Oliver-Lawson
This is What I Signed Up For by Jerald Howard
Before I Forget by Leonard Pitts
July 2009
Have Mercy by Earl Sewell
Body By Night by Zuri Day
Miracles In Action by Angela Alexander
The Kat Trap by Cairo
Oracle of The Sun Gods by M. Chelley Laurenz
August 2009
Love Trumps Game by D.Y. Phillips
Mom’s The Word by Marilynn Griffith
Billy by Albert French
Children of The Waters by Carleen Brice
Hood Rats by E.R. McNair
September 2009
Gut Bucket Blues by Anita August
A Step Into Deliverance by Toni Pugh
My Sister’s Ex by Cydney Rax
God Ain’t Blind by Mary Monroe
Homosexuality, AIDS and Voodoo by Wintrell Phillips
October 2009
Love Yourself First by Delvon Johnson
Wife of The Gods by Kwei Quartey
Flirt by Tracy Brown, K’wan and Angel Mitchell
Cliches: A Life In Verse by La’Shawnda D. Jones
The Barack In Me by Moses Miller
November 2009
A Gifted Child In Foster Care: A Story of Resilience by Dr. Grace LaJoy Henderson
A Peek Into My Soul Redux by Monda Webb
Sizzling Seduction by Gwyneth Bolton
Lessons Learned: It It What It Is by Portia A. Cosby
It’s In My Blood by Shawneda Marks
December 2009
Undead On Arrival by L. A. Banks
A Deep Dark Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Spoon by Robert Greer
Sins of The Father by Angela Benson
In Love With Losers by LaToya S. Watkins
*As featured on our column on Blogging in Black*
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