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Roxane Gay Books in Order

Find every Roxane Gay book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 22 books / 5 series

Roxane Gay is a Haitian-American author best known for the memoir *Hunger* and the essay collection *Bad Feminist*. A celebrated public intellectual, she is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Times bestselling writer. This page provides Roxane Gay’s books in order, including both chronological publication order and series reading order.

All Roxane Gay Books in Chronological Order

2011 Ayiti POoC / 1 Buy
2014 An Untamed State POoSN / 1 Buy
2014 Bad Feminist POoNB / 1 Buy
2015 Urgent, Unheard Stories POoNB / 2 Buy
2017 Black Panther: World of Wakanda POoGN / 1 Buy
2017 Difficult Women POoC / 2 Buy
2017 Hunger POoNB / 3 Buy
2018 Not That Bad POoNB / 4 Buy
2019 The Banks POoGN / 2 Buy
2020 This Telling(By: Cheryl Strayed) POoOOLB / 1 Buy
2020 Graceful Burdens POoOOLB / 2 Buy
2020 Sweet Virginia(By: Caroline Kepnes) POoOOLB / 3 Buy
2020 The Sacrifice of Darkness POoGN / 3 Buy
2020 The Contractors(By: Lisa Ko) POoOOLB / 4 Buy
2020 Halfway to Free(By: Emma Donoghue) POoOOLB / 5 Buy
2020 Bear Witness(By: Mary Gaitskill) POoOOLB / 6 Buy
2020 Shine, Pamela! Shine!(By: Kate Atkinson) POoOOLB / 7 Buy
2021 Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language POoNB / 5 Buy
2021 How to Be Heard POoNB / 6 Buy
2023 Opinions POoC / 3 Buy
2024 Do The Work(With: MeganPillow) POoNB / 7 Buy
2025 Love Letter to a Garden(With: Deborah S Millman) POoNB / 8 Buy

Roxane Gay Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Ayiti 2011 Buy
02 Difficult Women 2017 Buy
03 Opinions 2023 Buy
01 Bad Feminist 2014 Buy
02 Urgent, Unheard Stories 2015 Buy
03 Hunger 2017 Buy
04 Not That Bad 2018 Buy
05 Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language 2021 Buy
06 How to Be Heard 2021 Buy
07 Do The Work(With: MeganPillow) 2024 Buy
08 Love Letter to a Garden(With: Deborah S Millman) 2025 Buy
Graphic Books in Reading Order 3 books / 2017-2020
01 Black Panther: World of Wakanda 2017 Buy
02 The Banks 2019 Buy
03 The Sacrifice of Darkness 2020 Buy
01 This Telling(By: Cheryl Strayed) 2020 Buy
02 Graceful Burdens 2020 Buy
03 Sweet Virginia(By: Caroline Kepnes) 2020 Buy
04 The Contractors(By: Lisa Ko) 2020 Buy
05 Halfway to Free(By: Emma Donoghue) 2020 Buy
06 Bear Witness(By: Mary Gaitskill) 2020 Buy
07 Shine, Pamela! Shine!(By: Kate Atkinson) 2020 Buy
01 An Untamed State 2014 Buy

Where to start with Roxane Gay

What is the best order to read Roxane Gay books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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