2009 Top 25 African American Christian Booklist

1. Reshonda Tate Billingsley, The Devil is a Lie (Pocket)
2. Kimberla Lawson Roby, A Deep Dark Secret
3. Victoria Christopher Murray, Lady Jasmine (Touchstone)
4. Tiffany L. Warren, The Bishop's Daughter (Grand Central)
5. Patricia Haley, Chosen (Simon & Schuster)
   
6. Stacy Hawkins Adams, The Someday List (Revell)
7. Marilynn Griffith, Mom's the Word (Steeple Hill)
   
8. Sherri Lewis, The List (Urban Christian)
9. Vanessa Davis Griggs, Practicing What you Preach (Dafina)
   
10. Angela Benson, Sins of the Father (Harper Collins)
    
11. Rhonda McKnight, Secrets & Lies (Urban Christian)
12. Claudia Mair Burney, Deadly Charm (Howard)
    
13. Pat G'Orge Walker, Someone's Sinning in My Bed (Dafina)
14. Jacquelin Thomas, The Ideal Wife (NAL)
15. Michelle Bowen, Up at the College (Grand Central)
16. Tia McCollors, The Last Woman Standing (Moody)
17. Angela Benson, Sins of the Father (Harper Collins)
18. Xavier Knight, God Only Knows (Grand Central)
19. Kendra Norman-Bellamy, the Lyons Den (Urban Christian)
    
20. Stacy Hawkins Adams, Worth a Thousand Words (Revell)
21. Vanessa Miller, Forsaken (Urban Christian)
22. Pat Simmons, Not Guilty of Love (Urban Christian)
23. Booker T. Mattison, Unsigned Hype (Revell)
    
24. Bonnie Hopkins, Now, Then & Again (Walk Worthy)
25. Zaria Garrison, Prodigal (Urban Christian)
    

honorable mentions

• Sherryle Kiser Jackson, The Manual (Urban Christian)
  
• Cecilia Dowdy, Milk Money (HeartSong)