Top 10 Books of the Decade (2000-2009)
By APOOO • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: APOOO Features •
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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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How did you ever narrow it down? Most of your books are on my list with a few variation.
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I have been looking for a new GOOD book to read and now I have 10 options.
Thank you.
Binta glad we could assist.
I’m so happy to see This Side of the Sky on the list! I’m emailing Elyse right now!
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@ Carleen thanks!