Essence Bestsellers

Hardcover Fiction

January 2007 (Monthly)

Rank			Last Time
1		Vickie M. Stringer. Dirty Red A scorching new novel from the celebrated urban fiction author of "Let That Be the Reason" and "Imagine This." Stringer tells the provocative tale of love, lies, loss and the indomitable spirit of a woman called Red.	7
2		Mary Monroe. God Don't Play Annette Goode finally seems to have the perfect life. Out of the blue she starts to receive hostile letters, and vicious phone calls. Someone won't rest until the life Annette has worked so hard to build is torn down.	5
3		Walter Mosley. Fear of the Dark Fearless and Paris search for Paris's con artist cousin Ulysses S. Grant in Los Angeles during the 1950's.	New
4		E. Lynn Harris. I Say a Little Prayer Chauncey Greer, the bisexual owner of a thriving card company in Atlanta, is inspired to pursue his old dream of a musical career, a career that had ended in scandal thanks to a teenage love affair with his fellow bandmate in a popular boy band.	1
5		Carl Weber & Mary B. Morrison. She Ain't the One Ashlee Anderson flies to D.C. from Texas for alone time where she meets Jay Crawford. After returning to Texas, Ashlee stops taking her medication and things get bumpy in the long distance romance.	New
6		Eric Jerome Dickey. Chasing Destiny Billie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love threw an oil slick in the road and spun her life into chaos.	8
7		Karen E. Quinones Miller. Satin Nights The sequel to 'Satin Doll,' continuing the story of Regina Harris and her three girlfriends, dealing with divorce, single parenthood, and romance in Harlem.	3
8		Mary B. Morrison. When Somebody Loves You Back In this follow-up to Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This, NBA star Darius Jones juggles the women in his life.	2
9		Omar Tyree. Boss Lady "Tracy Ellison Grant is in charge again in Tyree's latest Flyy Girl novel (after For the Love of Money and Flyy Girl), this time as mentor to her go-getter younger cousin, Vanessa Tracy Smith, who narrates this glitzy urban story about the payoff of hard work. Tracy Grant rose to fame earlier with her autobiography Flyy Girl, which she parlayed into a booming career as a screenwriter, actress and producer. Now, an adoring and ambitious 16-year-old Vanessa moves from North Philly to L.A., and the novel tracks her three-year meteoric rise as Tracy's personal assistant and protégée to Hollywood powerbroker." - Publisher's Weekly	-
10		Danielle Santiago. Grindin'	New