2009

• Something on the Side by Carl Weber
• Them by Nathan McCall
• You Gotta Sin to Get Saved by JD Mason
• One in a Million Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Not Even If You Begged Francis Ray
• Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey
• Up Pops the Devil by Angela Benson
• One in a Million by Barbara Keaton
• Michelle: A Biography by Liza Mundy

2008

• After Hours by Rochelle Alers
• Sin No More by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage
• American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Levy
• Love & Lies by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Not Easily Broken by T.D. Jakes
• The Women Who Raised Me by Victoria Rowell
• Borrow Trouble by M. Monroe & V. McGlothin
• What I Know for Sure by Tavis Smiley
• After Hours by Rochelle Alers
• Sin No More by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage
• American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Levy

2007

• Be Careful What You Wish For by Cheryl Faye
• Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey
• A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
• Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
• Skyscraper: A Novel by Zane
• The First Lady by Carl Weber
• Rhythms by Donna Hill
• Do You Take This Woman? by R.M. Johnson
• The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier

2006

• Seasons by Bonnie Hopkins
• The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley
• So You Call Yourself a Man by Carl Weber
• Sugar by Bernice McFadden
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• What's a Woman to Do by Victor McGlothin
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
• Can't Get Enough by Connie Briscoe
• The Pact by Davis Sampson

2005

• On the Up and Up: A Survival Guide for Women Living with Men on the Down Low by Brenda Stone Browder
• The Wake of the Wind: A Novel by J. California Cooper
• P. G. County by Connie Briscoe
• Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• My Fine Lady by Yolanda Joe
• The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
• The Future has a Past by J. California Cooper
• On the Down Low by J. L. King

2004

• Awakening Mercy by Angela Benson
• Love by Toni Morrison
• A Change is Gonna Come by Jacquelin Thomas
• Taste of Reality by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Passing by Samaria by Sharon Ewell Foster
• Let that be the Reason by Vicki Stringer
• Inner City Miracle by Judge Greg Mathis
• What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell

2003

• Meeting of the Waters by Kim McLarin
• Promises Beyond Jordan by Vanessa Davis Griggs
• God Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
• Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder
• Discretion by Elizabeth Nunez
• Child of God by Lolita Files
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories by Juliette Harris

2002

• Any Way the Wind Blows by E. Lynn Harris
• Plain Brown Wrapper by Karen Grigsby Bates
• Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary Bray
• Fisher King by Paule Marshall
• It's a Thin Line by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Ever After by Edwardo Jackson
• Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Graham
• Three Deep by Patricia Kimille