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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS OF 2011

Best Reviewed Books of 2011



Below is a listing of books reviewed on the UrbanReviewsOnline.com website that we noted as being the best of the best!

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5 out of 5 'Top Shelf Rating' = 'Classic'
(This is a comprehensive list of those titles...in no particular order.)
 


Ice-T - ICE: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

Dwayne S. Joseph - Eye For An Eye 

Monique D. Mensah - Smoke Screen 

L.S. Childers - A Love Built to Last

Moses Miller - The Trifecta

Cairo - Deep Throat Diva

K'wan - Eviction Notice

Fabiola Joseph - The Art of Deceit 

Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley - Sinners & Saints 

Vanessa Davis Griggs - Redeeming Waters

Pat Simmons - Guilty By Association

Gwyneth Bolton - Ready For Love 

Wanda B. Campbell - Silver Lining 

Shelia M. Goss - Ruthless

Victoria Christopher Murray - The Deal, The Dance And The Devil

Ashley & JaQuavis - Murderville

Various Authors - Nikki Turner Presents Street Chronicles: A Woman's Work 

Niobia Bryant - Mistress No More 

Latisha N. Patterson - Airing Out Dirty Laundry 

Miranda Parker - A Good Excuse To Be Bad

Nakia R. Laushaul - Running From Solace

Karen Williams - Thug In Me

L.L. Reaper - Black Widow and the Sandman

Michele Grant - Sweet Little Lies

Gwyyneth Bolton - At First Kiss

Portia A. Cosby - Disgruntled Wives Club

Pat Simmons - Crowning Glory

Lutishia Lovely - All Up In My Business

Sydney Lyttle - Drama..Another Man’s  Girl

Thomas Slater - Show Stoppah

Pheare Alexander - Str8 Laced

Carl Weber - The Choir Director

Black Coffee - Time To Grow

Naleighna Kai - The Pleasure’s All Mine

Kimberla Lawson Roby - Love, Honor, and Betray

Naomi Chase - Exposed

Vanessa Davis Griggs - Ray of Hope

J Leon Pridgen II - Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives



4.5 OUT OF 5 HONORABLE MENTION = 'NEAR CLASSIC'
(There are our honorable mentions since they are very close to a top shelf rating!)
 


Arielle Crowell - Mr. Undesirable


Patricia Haley - Broken


Noire - G-Spot 2 Pride: The First Deadly Sin


 Tu-Shonda Whitaker - Money Never Sleeps...


Electa Rome Parks - True Confessions


Tiphanie Thomas - Heart Stealer


 K.L. Brady - The Bum Magnet


Donna Hill, Niobia Bryant, Zuri Day - Heat Wave (anthology) 


Amore - The Temptation of Love


T.N. Williams - Peace of Me


 Kenn Bivins - Pious



Leave your thoughts on your favorite reads from 2011!!
Congrats to all the phenomenal authors that excelled to the highest level this year!

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