Coming Attractions
By APOOO • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: APOOO Features •
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Before the week is over, I hope to accomplish two things:
- Set up 12 days of books giving contest.
- Finalize my list (African American titles only) of the Top 10 books I read this decade.
The latter is going to be a little challenging because much to my surprise I actually read a lot of books during the decade that I really, really liked. So far the following books are on the long list:
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Angel of Harlem by Kuwana Hausley
Breathing Room by Patricia Elam
Child of God by Lolita Files
Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Douglass Women by Jewel Parker Rhodes
Erasure by Percival Everett
Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
The Forbidden by LA Banks
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
The House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
The King of Colored Town by Darryl Wimberley
Kite Runner by Khodeni
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Lessons of a Lowcountry Summer by Rochelle Alers
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed
New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkins
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
Passport Diaries by Tamara Gregory
Playing My Mother’s Blues by Valerie Wesley
Prospero’s Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez
Redemption Song by Bertice Berry
Resurrecting Mingus by Jenoyne Adams
Rhythm by Donna Hill
The Sacred Place by Daniel Black
Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett Davis
Sisterhood of the Blackberry Corner -Smith
The Some Day List by Stacy Hawkins Adams
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Them – Nathan McCall
They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black
This Side of the Sky by Elyse Singleton
Unburnable by Elena Marie Jones
When Did You Stop Loving Me by by Veronica Chambers
When She Was White by Judith Stone
A Woman’s Worth by Tracy Price Thompson
By the end of this week, I hope to narrow this list down to 10 and announce the finalist on Friday (1/1/2010). While you’re at it, share some of the titles that made your list.
Okay now I’m off to work on the book giveaway. Tons of books to give away and you could be the lucky winner of up to 12 books!
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So sad that we won’t see anything else by BeBe Moore Campbell. She is/was my very favorite author.
@ Rhonda I know…she’s sorely missed.
Wow – To list 10 is an arduous task for a decade; too many worthy ones will be left out…maybe have a top 10 by traditional and non-traditional categories (auto-/biographies, Chick Lit, Male Authors, Debuts, Multi/Cross Cultural, One-Hit Wonders, etc.)
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You have some great ones..I agree with…
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
Alot of the others are in my TBR pile.
@ Lashonda get to reading sis.
I only started keeping track about three years ago so I couldn’t do a list like this. But if I did a “Best of” over that time, I’d have to include Abraham’s Well by Sharon Ewell Foster, My Soul Cries Out by Sherri Lewis and probably What Doesn’t Kill You by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant.
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I have my reading mojo back so I am off to a running start.
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Wow – deciding on top ten books in the decade is task in itself. I will forward to seeing what your final list looks like. I have not thought about what books I would list for the decade but I do know it would include – Half of a Yellow Sun.
I still haven’t been able to get my list together! LOL!!!!!!!
Golly gee, I feel so behind. I haven’t done nearly as much reading as I’d like so I don’t have ten. But I was really impressed with and enjoyed: Eric Jerome Dickey’s The Other Woman, All Things Hidden – Judy Candis, Shame On It All – Zane, and Somebody’s Sinning In My Bed – Pat G’Orge-Walker. And yes, I too will miss the literary genius of BeBe Moore Campbell. I strive to read moor in 2010.