2010 EDC CREATIONS
LITERARY EXCELLENCE AWARDS
LITERARY EXCELLENCE AWARDS
These are the books I personally read during 2010 for our Sankofa Literary Society (SLS) reading challenge. I read a total of 115 books for the year and this is my list of the best books from that group.
The books were submitted for review by the author, publisher or given to me as gifts. Each of the books on this list are considered 4-5 star reads. They are NOT listed in order by ranking. Each title below will enrich the lives of the new owners! I hope you will take the time to explore this list and to email this to at least 20 others, so that you too can Give the Gift of Knowledge!
The books below will make great gifts all year long! View all of our Best Books Recommended Reading Lists here: http://edcmagazine.blogspot.com/. Please follow our blog for more exciting news on the authors and the books coming out in 2011.
EDC Creations Books of the Year
Personally Selected by Ella Curry
1. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
2. Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. The story behind the documentary Waiting on Superman
3. 19 Years Old and 19 Men Later: How Someone Truly Loved Me
by Tenisha Gainey
4. Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
5. Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
TOP 40 BOOKS OF 2010
ELLA'S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
EDC Creations Literary Hallmarks
1. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
2. Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman by Sheri Parks
3. Victoire: My Mother's Mother by Maryse Conde
4. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
5. The Last Days of Ptolemy by Walter Mosley
6. Bitch Is the New Black by Helena Andrews
7. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
8. Substitute Me by Lori L. Tharps
9.The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow
10.Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
11.Searching For Tina Turner by Jacqueline Luckett
12.Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
13.Midnight by Beverly Jenkins
14.Relapse by Nikki Turner
15.How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
16.Wildflowers by Lyah Beth LeFlore
17.Stop Being Niggardly by Karen Hunter
18.Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
19.Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez
20.The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
21.Zora and Me by Victoria Bond (YA)
22.Sassy Series by Sharon M. Draper (YA)
23.The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara (YA)
24.Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (YA)
25.Hollyhood by Valerie Joyner
26.Ashes, Ashes They All Fall Down by Anita Ballard-Jones
27. The Little Black Book of Success by Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha and Rhonda
28.A Purse of Your Own by Deborah Owens
29.Sing About That Black Rose by Janet "Jaize" Brown
30.How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler
31.The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris
32.The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
33.Cheetah by Missy Jackson
34.Daddy by Default by Pat Tucker
35.Little Black Girl Lost 5 by Keith Lee Johnson
36.A Slip In The Right Direction by Rachel Berry (YA)
37.Still Waters by Crystal Rhodes
38.Life is Like a Soul Train Line by Monda Raquel Webb (Poetry)
39.From This Moment by Sean Young
40.Unsigned Hype by Booker T. Mattison (Mature YA)
SPEAK UP AND OUT
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If your name is listed below, you can copy the award image to your computer and add to your website as well as your promotional material. I would like to interview ALL of the authors on this list for Black Pearls Magazine and for the Black Authors Network Radio Show. Email me at: edc_dg@yahoo.com to setup the interviews.
Ella Curry, president of EDC Creations Media Group
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