The Detroit Public Library, encouraged by the positive response to this annual publication, continues the tradition of the African American Booklist for 2009. This bibliography provides a select list of books by and/or about African Americans. This booklist includes works of fiction and nonfiction for adults, children and young adults reviewed and recommended by librarians of the Detroit Public Library.

The Booklist began in February of 1926 to commemorate Negro History Week. Since that time, the African American Booklist has continued to feature the accomplishments of African Americans in the literary world and had become an annual tradition in the community.

Detroit Public Library 2009 - Adult Top Ten

The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive

Marvelyn Brown with Courtney E. Martin - Amistad, 2008

Going Down South

Bonnie J. Glover - One World, 2008

On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

Charles Cobb, Jr. - Algonquin Books, 2007

Rhythms of Grace

Marilyn Griffith - Revell, 2008

Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist

Nancy Goldstein - University of Michigan Press, 2008

Street Judge: A Novel

Greg Mathis - Strebor Books, 2008

Shameless Hoodwives

De'nesha Diamond; Meesha Mink - Touchstone, 2008

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Van Jones - HarperOne, 2008

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave.

Leonard Todd - W. W. Norton, 2008

Gather Together in My Name

Tracy Price-Thompson - Atria Books, 2008