Mahogany Media 2005 Awards
BEST NEW AUTHOR
Barring It All by: Gena Garrison
He Drown She in the Sea by: Shani Mootoo
F.R.I.E.N.D.S. by: Valerie A. Withers
Forever My Lady by: Jeff Rivera
The Middle Sister by: Bonnie J. Glover
The Professor’s Daughter by: Emily Raboteau
Upstate by: Kalisha Buckhanon
Are You Satisfied Yet? By: M.Bridges
BEST FICTION
Grown Folks Business by: Victoria Christopher Murray
Insatiable by: Allison Hobbs
The Secret Life of Bees by: Sue Monk Kidd
When Everything Is Said and Done by: Eboni Snoe
Babylon Sisters by: Pearl Cleage
My Jim by: Nancy Rawles
If It Ain’t One Thing by: Cheryl Robinson
Genevieve by: Eric Jerome Dickey
Haarlem by: Heather Neff
Third Girl From The Left by: Martha Southgate
Playing My Mother’s Blues by: Valerie Wilson Wesley
The Strong Silent Type by: C.Kelly Robinson
I Got Somebody In Staunton by: Henry Lewis
BEST NON FICTION
Diamond Street by: Bruce Edward Hall
Blind Faith by: Dennis Love/ Stacy Brown
He Loves Me Not, But I Love Myself by: Tamika Johnson
Harriet Tubman: Bound For The Promised Land by: Kate Clifford Larson
Forbidden Fruit : Love Stories from the Underground Railroad by: Betty DeRamus
Dear Senator: A Memoir By The Daughter of Strom Thurman by: Essie Mae Washington Williams/ William Stadiem
Space Between The Stars: My Journey To An Open Heart by: Deborah Santana
The Cinderella Syndrome: When The Glass Slipper No longer Fits by: Tann Moore
BEST ROMANCE
Timeless Devotion by: Bella McFarland
The Things She Does At Night by: Gail Marie Mitchell
Love Is Never Easy by: P.L. Hampton
Any Rich Man Will Do by: Francis Ray
Are You Satisfied Yet? By: M.Bridges
Other Men’s Wives by: Freddie Lee Johnson lll
A Younger Man by: Rochelle Alers
Unfinished Business by: Brenda Jackson
All Night Man by: Brenda Jackson
The Vow by: Denene Millner, Angela Burt Murray, Mitzi Miller
BEST SCI-FI
Joplin’s Ghost by: Tananarive Due
Within The Shadows by: Brandon Massey
BEST MYSTERY
The Accidental Hunter by: Nelson George
Executioner’s Game by: Gary Hardwick
Beyond Redemption by: Frederick Williams
Railroaded by: Whitfield Grant
The Company You Keep by: Angel Henry
The Long Mile by: Clyde W. Ford
Cinnamon Kiss by: Walter Mosley
Mary, Mary by: James Patterson
The Twelfth Card by: Jeffery Deaver
A Dark & Deadly Deception by: Eleanor Taylor Bland
BEST EROTICA
What You Won’t Do, Another One Will by: Tia Dionne
Whispers Between The Sheets by: Victor McGlothin/Earl Sewell/Phil Duck
G-Spot by: Noire
Candy Licker by: Noire
Groove by: Geneva Holiday
BEST URBAN FICTION
Girlz Night Out by: Lucio Dutch
Forever My Lady by: Jeff Rivera
Cooking Bacon Naked by: Stephen Chatman
BEST POETRY/SPOKEN WORD
Black Maria by: Kevin Young
The Poetic Repercussion by: Mark Anthony Thomas
The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours by: Jill Scott
The Univer-soul Language by: edited by Cedric Mixon
The Maverick Room by: Thomas Sayers Ellis
The Language Of Saxophone: Selected Poems by: Kamau Daaood
BEST BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION BOOKS
Can’t Get Enough by: Connie Briscoe
Genevieve by: Eric Jerome Dickey
Babylon Sistsers by: Pearl Cleage
My Jim by: Nancy Rawles
The Fruits of Atterly by: Angela Banks
Steven by: Marvin Curtis Reid
The Interruption of Everything by: Terry McMillan
Grown Folks Business by: Victoria Christopher Murray
Barring It All by: Gena Garrison
The Things She Does at Night by: Gail Marie Mitchell
The Secret Life of Bees by: Sue Monk Kidd
Playing My Mother’s Blues by: Valerie Wilson Wesley
If It Ain’t One Thing by: Cheryl Robinson
72 Hour Hold by: Bebe Moore Campbell
Other Men’s Wives by: Freddie Lee Johnson lll
The Vow by: Denene Millner, Angela Burt Murray, Mitzi Miller
BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Babylon Sisters by: Pearl Cleage
Genevieve by: Eric Jerome Dickey
Can’t Get Enough by: Connie Briscoe
The Interruption of Everything by: Terry McMillan
The Vow by: Denene Millner, Angela Burt Murray,Mitzi Miller
Mahogany Media -2004 Book Awards
BEST NEW AUTHOR
Robbing Peter by: Kia Dupree
Cheatin’ In The Next Room by: Rhonda Lawson
Lovin’ You Is Wrong by: Alisha Yvonne
Cling To Me by: Gail Marie Mitchell
BEST FICTION
Don’t Want No Sugar by: J.D.Mason
The Darkest Child by: Delores Phillips
Crave by: Darnella Ford
Fannin’ The Flames by: Parry Brown
Angel of Harlem by: Kwanna Hausley
Property by: Valerie Martin
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell by: Kenji Jasper
Logic by: Olympia Vernon
BEST NON-FICTION
Human Traffickers by: Joe Ike
No Woman No Cry by: Hettie Jones/ Rita Marley
Longing To Tell by: Tricia Rose
Hearing Voices by: Nathan Lewis
Inside The Kingdom by: Carmen BinLadin
BEST ROMANCE
The Perfect Blend by: C.Kelly Robinson
Four Play by: Brenda Thomas
The Accidental Diva by: Tia Williams
One Woman Man by: Travis Hunter
Lessons of a Low Country Summer by: Rochelle Alers
Taste Like Chicken by: Lolita Files
The Playa’s Handbook by: Brenda Jackson
Vows of Passion by: Bella McFarland
Loose Ends by: Electa Rome Parks
Shades of Brown by: Denise Beckers
BEST MYSTERY
Dying In The Dark by: Valerie Wilson Wesley
Mirror, Mirror by: Laurel Handfield
Too Beautiful To Die by: Glenville Lovell
All Things Hidden by: Judy Candis
BEST SCIENCE FICTION
Asphalt by: Carl Hancock Rux
Dark Matter: Reading The Bones by: Sheree Thomas
Dark Thirst by: Angela Allen
BEST EROTIC FICTION
Small Packages by: Sydney Molare
Playthings by: Faith Graham
Scandolous by: Angela Campion
BEST HIP-HOP FICTION
Explicit Content by: Black Artemis
BEST URBAN FICTION
Ride or Die by: Solomon Jones
Jay’s Mansion by: Tonya Blount
Secrets by: Moody Holiday
Around The Way Girls: Dwayne Joseph/LaJill Hunt/ect..
Gangster’s Girl: Chunichi
BEST POETRY/ SPOKEN WORD
Influx by: Owen Ifill
Collected Poems by: Chinua Achebe
Afrodeezyackz/The Mumblings of a Madman by: Sekou tha misfit Eyes Free by: Taalam Acey
BEST BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION BOOKS
Leaving Cecil Street by: Diane McKinney Whetstone
Better Than I Know Myself by: Virginia DeBerry/ Donna Grant
A Woman’s Worth by: Tracy Price Thompson
Some People, Some other place by: J.California Cooper
Accident of Birth by: Heather Neff
MAHOGANY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Leaving Cecil Street by: Diane McKinney Whetstone
Better Than I Know Myself by: Virginia DeBerry/ Donna Grant
A Woman’s Worth by: Tracy Price Thompson
Logic by: Olympia Vernon
Gotham Diaries by: Tonya Lewis Lee/ Crystal McCrary Anthony
Loose Ends by: Electa Rome Parks
Taste Like Chicken by: Lolita Files
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell by: Kenji Jasper
Property by: Valerie martin
Angel of Harlem by: Kuwanna Hausley
Crave by: Darnella Ford
In My Bedroom by: Donna Hill
Fleeing Aerie by: Roz Swartz Williams
On The Down Low by: J.L.King
Some People Some Other Place by: J.California Cooper
Accident of Birth by: Heather Neff