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November Best Seller List



Fiction - Hardcover
1. Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Di ckey (Dutton, $24.95) (1)
2. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns by J. California Cooper (Doubleday, $23.95) *
3. Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown, $24.95) *
4. Defining Moments by Jacquelin Thomas (NAL, $22.95) *
5. So You Call Yourself a Man by Carl Weber (Dafina, $24) (3)
6. I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday, $21.95) (2)
7. Baby Brother’s Blues by Pearl Cleage (One World/Ballantine, $24.95) (5)
8. Changing Faces by Kimberla Lawson Roby (William Morrow, $23.95) (4)
9. Dirty Red by Vickie M. Stringer (Atria, $23.95) *
10. Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanan (St. Martin’s Griffin, $19.95) *

Fiction - Paperback
1. A Sin and a Shame by Victoria Christopher Murray (Touchstone, $14) (8)
2. Candy Licker by Noire (One World/Ballantine, $13.95) (1)
3. Hoodwinked by Quentin Carter (Triple Crown Publications, $15) *
4. Mina’s Joint by Keisha Ervin (Triple Crown Publications, $15) *
5. More Than Grace by Kendra Norman-Bellamy (BET, $14) (3)
6. Riding Dirty on I-95 by Nikki Turner (One World/Ballantiine, $13.95) (5)
7. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Lyah Beth LeFlore (Harlem Moon, $12.95) (10)
8. What Goes Around by Parry EbonySatin Brown (One World/Ballantine, $13.95) *
9. Genevieve by Eric Jerome Di ckey (NAL, $14) *
10. I’m Still Wifey by Kiki Swinson (Melodrama Publishing, $15) (2)

Non Fiction - Hardcover
1. Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans (Amistad, $24.95) (5)
2. Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper (Gotham Books, $20) (3)
3. A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown (Crown, $24.95) (2)
4. Don’t Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry (Riverhead, $23.95) (1)
5. New News out of Africa by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Oxford University Press, $23) *
6. The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours by Jill Scott (St. Martin’s Press, $18.95) *
7. The Threshing Floor by Juanita Bynum (Charisma House, $19.99) *
8. Mama Made the Difference by T.D. Jakes (Putnam Adult, $19.95) (9)
9. We Speak Your Names: A Celebration by Pearl Cleage (One World/Ballantine, $9.95) (4)
10. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner (Amistad, $25.95) (6)

Non Fiction - Paperback
1. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G.Woodson (Africa World Press, $9.95) (8)
2. The Willie Lynch Letter by Kashik Malik Hassan-El (Frontline Distribution International, $3.95) (2)
3. The Convenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Third World Press, $12) (1)
4. Letters to Young Black Men by Daniel Whyte III (Torch Legacy Publications, $10.99) (4)
5. Reallionaire by Farrah Gray (HCI, $12.95) *
6. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education by Jawanza Kunjufu (African American Images, $15.95) *
7. Hip Hop Street Curriculum: Keeping It Real by Jawanza Kunjufu (African American Images, $12.95) *
8. More Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Its Heroes, and Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson (PowerNomics Corporation of America, $19.95) *
9. Black Firsts by Jesse Carney Smith (Visible Ink Press, $24.95) *
10. We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt (Puffin, $6.99) *

ABOUT THIS LIST: The Essence Best Sellers list is based on reports of retail sales. Respondents are African-American bookstores. Numbers in parentheses indicate last month’s position. An asterisk indicates a debut title on this list.

going to check it out. Look interesting