Albom, Mitch
Have a little faith

Boling, Dave
Guernica: a novel

Boyle, Kevin
Arc of justice: a saga of race, civil rights and murder in the Jazz Age

Brown, Sandra
Smash cut

Burrell, Tom
Brainwashed: challenging the myth of Black inferiority

Butler, Octavia E.
Kindred

Cooper, Helene
The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood

Cooper, J. California
Life is short but wide

Davis, Miles
Miles, the autobiography

Durrow, Heidi W.
The girl who fell from the sky

Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex

Gaines, Ernest J.
A lesson before dying

Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a geisha

Heller, Joseph
Catch-22

Hosseini, Khaled
The kite runner

Jenkins, Beverly
Bring on the blessings

Jenkins, Beverly
A second helping: a blessings novel

Johnson, D.E.
The Detroit Electric scheme

Kerouac, Jack
On the road: the original scroll

Kidd, Sue Monk
The secret life of bees

King, Laurie R.
O Jerusalem

Kunjufu, Jawanza
State of emergency: we must save African American males

Larsson, Stieg
The girl with the dragon tattoo

Leithauser, Brad
The art student's war

McCall, Nathan
Them

McCarthy, Cormac
The road

McMillan, Terry
Waiting to exhale

Mortenson, Greg
Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace, one school at a time

Mosley, Walter
47

Niffenegger, Audrey
The time traveler's wife

Parker, Robert B.
Double play

Patterson, James
The quickie

Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen minutes

Pitts, Leonard, Jr.
Before I forget

Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Douglass' women

Roby, Kimberla Lawson
One in a million

Rodriguez, Deborah
Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil

Samuels-Young, Pamela
Buying time

Sebold, Alice
The lovely bones

Skloot, Rebecca
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Souljah, Sister
The coldest winter ever

Steel, Danielle
A good woman

Stockett, Kathryn
The help

Walker, Alice
The color purple

Young, William P.
The shack: where tragedy confronts eternity