The Shack by William P. Young
The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
How to Have a Difficult Conversation you Have Been Avoiding by Dr. Henry Cloud and John Thompson
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem
2008 Selections:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Color of Water by James McBride
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revoluntionary by Jasmine Guy
Floating by Nicole Bailey Williams
2007 Selections:
One Sure Thing by Celeste O. Norfleet
Lies at the Altar: The Truth About Great Marriages by Robin L. Smith
A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
Easter Everywhere by Darcey Steinke
Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor
Work It, Girl!: The Black Woman's Guide to Professional Success by Lorraine Morris Cole and Pamela M. McBride
2006 Selections:
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Bi-racial
Children in a Race Conscious World by Marguerite Wright
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Madea's Uninhibited
Commentaries on Love and Life: Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry
Passing by Nella Larsen
Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
2005 Selections:
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan
The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele