When Love Calls, You Better Answer (2005)
Bertice Berry.

Bernita Brown is a tireless social worker who is good at practically everything—except love. She receives some counsel and guidance about her life from beyond the grave from her dead Aunt Babe.
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A Dark and Deadly Deception (2005)
Eleanor Taylor Bland.

When the body of Savannah Payne-Jones, an actress and known gambler, washes up on the shore of the Des Plaines River in suburban Chicago, Detective Marti MacAlister and her detective partner Vik Jessenovik investigate.
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Can't Get Enough (2005)
Connie Briscoe.

In this sequel to P. G. County, published in 2002, the well-to-do residents of suburban Silver Lake, Maryland continue to be driven by lust, greed, and revenge.
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Criminal Minded (2005)
Tracy Brown.

While his best friend is in jail, Lamin builds a drug empire with his friend Zion. Seeing the error of his ways, Lamin tries to go legit as a filmmaker, but remains haunted by his criminal past.
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Fledgling (2005)
Octavia Butler.

Shari Matthews looks like a ten-year-old girl. However, she is actually a fifty-three-year-old vampire suffering from amnesia who must learn everything about her life and her people again.
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72 Hour Hold (2005)
Bebe Moore Campbell.

Keri, owner of an upscale L.A. resale clothing shop attempts to save her eighteen-year-old daughter, Trina, from the devastating consequences of mental illness.
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Babylon Sisters (2005)
Pearl Cleage.

Catherine Sanderson nears the edge of catastrophe when her seventeen-year-old daughter, Phoebe, forces Cat’s hand in an attempt to learn the identity of her absent father.
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Genevieve (2005)
Eric Jerome Dickey.

The unnamed narrator of Dickey’s novel is a man torn between the love of his beautiful wife, Genevieve, and his attraction to his wife’s sister, Kenya.
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Joplin's Ghost (2005)
Tananarive Due.

Phoenix Smalls, an aspiring R & B singer, is haunted by the ghost of the legendary pianist and father of ragtime, Scott Joplin.
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A House is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel (2005)
James Earl Hardy.

In Hardy’s sixth and last novel in his B-Boy Blues series, lovers Mitchell and Raheim consider once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
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Video Cowboys (2005)
Yolanda Joe.

Crime-solving news reporter Georgia Barnett finds herself in the middle of a dangerous and unusual bank robbery.
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Who Does She Think She Is? (2005)
Benilde Little.

As Aisha McCovney prepares to marry her fabulously rich fiancé, her mother, Camille, and her grandmother, Geneva, reflect on their own lives and relationships.
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The Interruption of Everything (2005)
Terry McMillan.

Marilyn Grimes, a forty-something wife and mother, feels unappreciated by her family, underwhelmed by her twenty-five year marriage, and wonders what it would be like to think of her own needs for once.
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The Vow (2005)
Denene Millner.

Best friends Trista, Amaya, and Vivian are all trying to make a name for themselves in Hollywood. At a sorority sister’s wedding, the three take a vow to become engaged within a year.
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In Sheep's Clothing (2005)
Mary Monroe.

When “plain Jane” Trudy Bell lands a job at the Bon Voyage travel agency she finds herself infuriated and envious of the only other African American employee at Bon Voyage, the glamorous Ann Oliver. Trudy’s love-hate relationship with Ann sets Trudy on a self-destructive path that becomes increasingly difficult to control.
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Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This (2005)
Mary B. Morrison.

Morrison continues the steamy saga of Fancy Taylor, Darius Jones, Jada Diamond Tanner, and Welling Jones that she began in her earlier novels.
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Cinnamon Kiss (2005)
Walter Mosley.

Private investigator Easy Rawlings travels from L.A. to San Francisco to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy, eccentric lawyer and his exotic lover, Cinnamon Cargill.
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Grown Folk's Business (2005)
Victoria Christopher Murray.

Sheridan Hart’s faith sustains her after Quentin, her husband of seventeen years, announces that he is in love with someone else – a man.
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Freshwater Road (2005)
Denise Nicholas.

Nineteen-year-old University of Michigan sophomore Celeste travels to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to help register voters in Pineville, a small town best known for a past lynching. The experiences force her to address the issues in her life, with her family, and on a larger scale.
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Voodoo Season (2005)
Jewell Parker Rhodes.

In this sequel to Voodoo Dreams, published in 1993, Marie Levant, first-year resident at New Orleans’s Charity Hospital and descendent of voodoo priestess Marie Leveau, discovers that she has a gift for more than one kind of healing.
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The Best-Kept Secret (2005)
Kimberla Lawson Roby.

Rev. Curtis Black, who has appeared previously in several of Roby’s novels, has finally changed his ways: no more close encounters with temptation, just a simple existence running his new church and loving his new wife and their son. Or so he thinks.
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Third Girl From the Left (2005)
Martha Southgate.

Southgate’s novel focuses on Angela, who played bit parts in 1970s blaxploitation movies; her mother, Mildred, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots; and her daughter, Tamara, a graduate student in documentary film-making.
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Love On the Dotted Line (2005)
David E. Talbert.

Attorney Morgan Chase gets her boyfriend, Charles, to sign a contract spelling out the terms of their relationship. When Charles is caught red-handed with another woman, Morgan takes Charles to court in a legal battle of the sexes.
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Saved In the City (2005)
Jacqueline Thomas.

Patterson, LaRue, and Macy meet at an open call for models in Manhattan, become roommates and friends, and search for personal fulfillment and spiritual maturity.
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Boss Lady (2005)
Omar Tyree.

Tracy Ellison, the main character in Tyree’s earlier novels Flyy Girl and For the Love of Money, is back again. She’s in Hollywood, Flyy Girl is becoming a major motion picture, and Tracy is juggling the highs and lows of her turbulent love life.
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Preacher's Son (2005)
Carl Weber.

Bishop T.K. Wilson is the popular preacher of the largest African American church in Queens, New York, and he has just launched a run for political office. However, for his children, Dante and Donna, being saved and sanctified is the last thing on their minds.
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Playing My Mother's Blues (2005)
Valerie Wilson Wesley.

Sisters Dani and Rose Carter were children when their mother, Maria, abandoned her husband and family for a love affair that ended in tragedy. Decades later Maria, now calling herself Mariah, reenters the lives of her daughters.
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God's Gym (2005)
John Edgar Wideman.

In this well-crafted collection of ten short stories, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Wideman addresses issues of faith, belief, and community, with story topics ranging from his weightlifting mother to blues music.
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