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AALBC.com's 500 Best Selling Books for 2006

In 2006 AALBC.com sold over 1,400 different titles.  The 500 best selling titles are shown below

 

  1. Confessions of a Video Vixen
  2. The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story
  3. Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II (Zane Does Incredible, Erotic Things)
  4. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
  5. Addicted: A Novel
  6. The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
  7. The Covenant with Black America
  8. Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection
  9. Breaking the Cycle
  10. Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
  11. Diary of A Lost Girl: The Autobiography Of Kola Boof
  12. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories
  13. Chasing Destiny
  14. Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
  15. A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
  16. Nervous: A Novel
  17. We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
  18. Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
  19. Some People, Some Other Place
  20. Afterburn: A Novel
  21. Caramel Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
  22. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
  23. A Hustler's Wife
  24. Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection
  25. Married to the Game
  26. Never Satisfied: How & Why Men Cheat
  27. A Gangster's Girl
  28. Let That Be the Reason
  29. Black Gangster
  30. Crystelle Mourning: A Novel
  31. Shame on It All
  32. So You Call Yourself A Man
  33. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
  34. Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms
  35. Sheisty
  36. Skyscraper: A Novel
  37. The Interruption of Everything
  38. Three Sides to Every Story: A Novel
  39. Black
  40. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
  41. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
  42. Men Cry in the Dark
  43. Race Matters
  44. The Heat Seekers
  45. The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick
  46. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
  47. A Project Chick (Nikki Turner Original)
  48. Brothers and Sisters
  49. G-Spot: An urban erotic tale by
  50. I Say a Little Prayer: A Novel
  51. Imagine This
  52. Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny
  53. Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums (Bluestreak Series)
  54. Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas
  55. Street Players
  56. The Mis-Education of The Negro
  57. World's Great Men of Color, Volume I: Asia and Africa, and Historical Figures Before Christ, Including Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the
  58. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
  59. Dopefiend
  60. Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
  61. Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
  62. Love Poems
  63. Love: What Life Is All About
  64. The Maintenance Man: A Novel
  65. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
  66. Too Busy Not to Pray: Slowing Down to Be With God: Including Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  67. White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief
  68. Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
  69. 72 Hour Hold
  70. Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
  71. Changing Faces
  72. Chyna Black
  73. Dirty Red: A Novel
  74. Dollar Bill
  75. Down Chick
  76. Echoes of a Distant Summer
  77. Flesh and the Devil
  78. Gangsta
  79. Inner City Hoodlum
  80. It's No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal--a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
  81. Living Water
  82. Lookin' For Luv
  83. Payback Is A Mutha
  84. Pimp: The Story of My Life
  85. Still Sheisty, Part 2
  86. Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad
  87. The Glamorous Life: A Novel
  88. The Souls of Black Folk
  89. To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group
  90. Whore
  91. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
  92. A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
  93. Around The Way Girls 2
  94. Black Students / Middle Class Teachers
  95. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
  96. Cinnamon Kiss: A Novel
  97. Cry Revenge (Holloway House Originals)
  98. Death List
  99. Dime Piece
  100. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines
  101. Driven from Within
  102. Every Thug Needs a Lady
  103. From Superman to Man
  104. Grimey: The Sequel to Blinded...
  105. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics (Paperback))
  106. Joplin's Ghost: A Novel
  107. Kenyattas Escape
  108. Mama
  109. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968.
  110. Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays
  111. Satan, I'm Taking Back My Health!
  112. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World
  113. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
  114. Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
  115. The Black Man in the Old Testament and Its World
  116. The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
  117. The Future Has a Past: Stories
  118. The Preacher's Son
  119. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939
  120. What They Want: A Novel
  121. Who's Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
  122. Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom (Zero Debt)
  123. , said the shotgun to the head.
  124. A Love of My Own
  125. Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
  126. Baby Brother's Blues: A Novel
  127. Black Girl Lost
  128. Blackgentlemen.com
  129. Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
  130. B-More Careful
  131. Bruised Hibiscus
  132. Candy Licker: An Urban Erotic Tale
  133. Casting The First Stone
  134. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster
  135. Crime Partners
  136. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
  137. Do The Write Thing: Seven Steps to Publishing Success
  138. Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
  139. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
  140. Fortunate Son
  141. From Niggas to Gods, Part One
  142. Go Tell It on the Mountain
  143. God's Gift to Women: A Novel
  144. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
  145. Inspired By The Bible Experience: New Testament
  146. Invisible Life: Special edition
  147. Invisible Man
  148. Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?
  149. It's OK if You're Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound
  150. Little Black Girl Lost
  151. Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future
  152. Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
  153. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
  154. Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This
  155. Nowhere Is a Place
  156. Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
  157. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
  158. Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man--Conflict and Compromise of Second Generation Advocacy in the Post Civil Rights Era
  159. The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print
  160. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
  161. The Color Purple
  162. The Early Writings of Saul Stacy Williams
  163. The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
  164. The Ways of White Folks: Stories
  165. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  166. Too Much of a Good Thing
  167. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
  168. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
  169. 47
  170. A Day Late and a Dollar Short
  171. A Dollar And A Dream
  172. A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
  173. A Meeting in the Ladies Room
  174. A Million Little Pieces
  175. A Song Flung Up to Heaven
  176. African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
  177. Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States: With New Supplement, Africa and Its Potentialities
  178. Around the Way Girls
  179. Babylon Sisters: A Novel
  180. Blinded: An Urban Tale!...
  181. Boss Lady: A Novel
  182. Cheetah Girls, The: The Junior Novel - Book #2: Junior Novel (Junior Novelization)
  183. Crack Head
  184. Cream
  185. Critical Issues in Educating African American Youth (A Talk With Jawanza)
  186. Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
  187. Daughter: A Novel
  188. Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
  189. Does Your House Have Lions ?
  190. Drama Queen
  191. Enoch the Ethiopian: The Lost Prophet of the Bible: Greater Than Abraham, Holier Than Moses
  192. Extra Marital Affairs
  193. Five Negro Presidents
  194. Fledgling: A Novel
  195. Flip Side of The Game
  196. Flyy Girl
  197. For the Love of Money: A Novel
  198. Four Degrees of Heat
  199. From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews
  200. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
  201. Genevieve
  202. He Talk Like a White Boy
  203. Hoodwinked
  204. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  205. Immortality of Influence
  206. Inner City Miracle
  207. Jesus and the Disinherited
  208. Kenyatta's Last Hit
  209. Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
  210. Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women
  211. Lynched by Corporate America: The Gripping True Story of How One African American Survived Doing Business with a Fortune 500 Giant
  212. Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)
  213. Mama Made the Difference
  214. Married Men
  215. Milk in My Coffee
  216. Miracle at St. Anna
  217. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
  218. My Life in Search of Africa
  219. My Love, My Love: The Peasant Girl
  220. My Woman His Wife
  221. Never Again Once More
  222. Never Die Alone
  223. Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof
  224. One Day I Saw a Black King: A Novel
  225. Platinum Dolls
  226. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
  227. Riding Dirty on I-95: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
  228. Roots
  229. Schemin' Confessions of a Gold Digger
  230. sex.lies.murder.fame.: A Novel
  231. She Ain't The One
  232. SINGLE MOM: A Novel
  233. Standing at the Scratch Line: A Novel (Strivers Row)
  234. Street Dreams
  235. Street Life
  236. Sweet St. Louis: AN Urban Love Story
  237. Tastes Like Chicken: A Novel (Files, Lolita)
  238. Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment
  239. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
  240. The Alphabet Verses: The Ghetto
  241. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  242. The Best-Kept Secret
  243. The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy (Awis Lecture Series)
  244. The First Part Last
  245. The Friends
  246. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
  247. The Mack Within
  248. The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
  249. The Problem of Pain
  250. The Roads of North Carolina
  251. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  252. The Wake of the Wind: A Novel
  253. The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
  254. The Womanizers
  255. Thug-A-Licious
  256. True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable
  257. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Oprah's Book Club)
  258. White Rat: Stories (Harlem Moon Classics)
  259. Wifey
  260. Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent
  261. 101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves
  262. A Delight Before Christmas (Noire Passion)
  263. A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel (B-Boy Blues)
  264. A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
  265. A Mighty Love
  266. A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage)
  267. A Thug's Life
  268. Africa and the Bible
  269. Ain't No River
  270. An All Night Man
  271. And One More Thing Before You Go...
  272. And Then We Heard the Thunder (Howard University Press Library of Contemporary Literature)
  273. Another Good Loving Blues
  274. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
  275. Baby Momma Drama
  276. Bad Girlz: A Novel
  277. Bang!
  278. B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))
  279. Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen to the Souls of Our Children
  280. Beyond The Limbo Silence
  281. Biblical History of Black Mankind
  282. Bitch
  283. Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
  284. Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Girls (Black Books Galore)
  285. Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
  286. Black Mother Goose Book
  287. Blues in the Wind
  288. Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology
  289. Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands - A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
  290. Chasin' It
  291. Cheaters
  292. Chocolate Covered Forbidden Fruit
  293. Chocolate Kisses
  294. Chocolate Thoughts: Short Stories, Essays and Poetry from the Hearts and Minds of Real Black Men
  295. Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
  296. Close Encounters
  297. Colors Come from God Just Like Me
  298. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics
  299. Curious George the Movie Sticker Fun Book
  300. Daily Sex: 365 Positions and Activities for a Year of Great Sex!
  301. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
  302. Deadly Reigns
  303. Deadly Reigns II (Deadly Reigns)
  304. Death Wish
  305. Diary Of A Crack Addict's Wife
  306. Diary of a Groupie: A Novel
  307. Disappearing Acts
  308. Discretion
  309. Douglass' Women: A Novel
  310. Drive Me Crazy
  311. Drug Related
  312. Dutch: The First of a Trilogy
  313. Entangled
  314. Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
  315. Fatou, Part 2
  316. Fatou: An African Girl in Harlem
  317. Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality
  318. Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons For Black Authors
  319. Freedom in this Village:: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing: 1979 to the Present
  320. Game Over
  321. Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
  322. Girls From Da Hood 2
  323. Have a Little Faith
  324. Hip Hop Street Curriculum
  325. Hold U Down
  326. Holla Back...but Listen First: A Life Guide for Young Black Men
  327. Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race
  328. Hoodlum
  329. How To Grow As A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know To Succeed
  330. Howard Street
  331. I Choose to Stay: A Black Teacher Refuses to Desert the Inner City
  332. I Know I've Been Changed
  333. Ida B.: A Novel
  334. If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel
  335. If Your Girl Only Knew
  336. I'm Still Wifey
  337. In Cold Blood
  338. Investing Success: How to Conquer 30 Costly Mistakes & Multiply Your Wealth (Investing Success)
  339. Is It a Crime: A Street Saga
  340. It's a Thin Line
  341. Jeff Herman's Guide To Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 2006: Who they are! What they want! How to win them over! (Jeff Herman's Guide to B
  342. John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher
  343. Karen
  344. Keeping The Love You Find
  345. Kiss the Year Goodbye
  346. Let's Get It On
  347. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
  348. Little Black Girl Lost 2
  349. Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
  350. Love & Loyalty
  351. Loving Donovan: A Novel in Three Stories
  352. Maat the 11 laws of God
  353. MACK Tactics: The Science of Seduction Meets the Art of Hostage Negotiation
  354. Mina's Joint
  355. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
  356. MOB
  357. Motown in Love: Lyrics from the Golden Era
  358. Mound Bayou
  359. My Confederate Kinfolk
  360. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
  361. Neecey's Lullaby
  362. No More Drama
  363. No Strings Attached
  364. Not a Day Goes By
  365. Official Rules of Card Games
  366. On A Mission: Selected Poems and a History of the Last Poets
  367. Oreo (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
  368. Passing (Penguin Classics)
  369. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
  370. Player Haters
  371. Please, Puppy, Please
  372. Prospero's Daughter: A Novel
  373. Push
  374. Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (Vintage)
  375. Rappers 'R in Danger
  376. Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living
  377. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
  378. Road Dawgz
  379. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
  380. Shades of Jade: A Novel (Strivers Row)
  381. She
  382. She's the One
  383. Shoulda Woulda Coulda
  384. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
  385. Skin Again
  386. Slapboxing with Jesus
  387. Snitch
  388. Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
  389. Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
  390. Something's Wrong with Your Scale!: A Romantic Comedy
  391. Soul on Ice
  392. Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
  393. Stacy
  394. Statehood Quarters Album 1999 - 2008: Complete Philadelphia and Denver Mint Collection
  395. Suddenly (Arabesque)
  396. Sugar Daddy
  397. Summer: Creative Activities for Young Children (Tiny Hands)
  398. Swamp Man
  399. Swingers
  400. The 48 Laws of Power
  401. The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
  402. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
  403. The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))
  404. The Best American Short Stories 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))
  405. The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool
  406. The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
  407. The Bondwoman's Narrative
  408. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
  409. The Darkest Child: A Novel
  410. The Dew Breaker (Today Show Book Club #23)
  411. The Ecstatic (Vintage Contemporaries)
  412. The Fire Next Time (Modern Library)
  413. The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
  414. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  415. The Heart of a Woman
  416. The Known World
  417. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941)
  418. The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom
  419. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
  420. The Money Coach's Guide to Your First Million
  421. The Night Before Thirty: A Novel (Strivers Row)
  422. The Other Woman
  423. The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide
  424. The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
  425. The Selling of Joseph: A Healing Message from History
  426. The Tribe
  427. The Velvet Rope
  428. The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
  429. The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth
  430. The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
  431. Three Wishes (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
  432. Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men
  433. True Intentions (Mass Deception)
  434. Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin
  435. Ugly Ways
  436. Undercover Sex Signals: A Pickup Guide For Guys
  437. Up from Slavery
  438. Visions for Black Men
  439. Voices from the Other Side: Dark Dreams II
  440. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir
  441. What You Owe Me
  442. When Somebody Loves You Back
  443. Where Is the Love?
  444. White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
  445. Within The Shadows
  446. World's Great Men of Color, Volume II: Europe, South and Central America, the West Indies, and the United States, Including Alessandro de' Medici, Ale
  447. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
  448. 1996
  449. My Life (Green Integer Books, 39)
  450. 150 Ways to Tell If You're Ghetto
  451. 2006 Poets Market (Poet's Market)
  452. 24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer
  453. 2nd Time Around (B-Boy Blues (Paperback))
  454. 5 Steps to a 5: AP World History (5 Steps to a 5)