Top 10 Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

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Okay I narrowed my list down and the books that made my Top 10 of the decade(in alphabetical order) are:

Darkest Child by Delores Phillips

Douglass Women by Jewel Parker Rhodes

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas

A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed

New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkins

Prospero’s Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez

Sugar by Bernice McFadden

They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black

This Side of the Sky by Elyse Singleton

Unburnable by Elena Marie Jones

Check out the full list. My all-time favorite book however is still Mama Day by Gloria Naylor.

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  1. GravatarDera on January 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 am:

    How did you ever narrow it down? Most of your books are on my list with a few variation.
    .-= Dera´s last blog ..MM- Remembering and Losing Santa =-.

  2. GravatarBinta on January 29th, 2010 at 2:03 pm:

    I have been looking for a new GOOD book to read and now I have 10 options.

    Thank you.

  3. GravatarAPOOO on January 29th, 2010 at 2:34 pm:

    Binta glad we could assist.

  4. Gravatarcarleen on February 11th, 2010 at 1:56 pm:

    I’m so happy to see This Side of the Sky on the list! I’m emailing Elyse right now!
    .-= carleen´s last blog ..Guest post by author Donna Hill =-.

  5. GravatarAPOOO on February 11th, 2010 at 5:26 pm:

    @ Carleen thanks!

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