- The last bookaneer, a novel, Matthew Pearl
- Revolution, a novel by Deborah Wiles
- Malcolm X, [by any means necessary], Walter Dean Myers
- Stepping stone, Love machine: [two short novels from crosstown to oblivion], Walter Mosley
- The beautiful struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- One rough man, by Brad Taylor
- Pleasantville, Attica Locke