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Toni Morrison Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Toni Morrison in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 216 books / 11 series

American novelist and editor Toni Morrison, best known for *Beloved*, *Song of Solomon*, and *The Bluest Eye*, won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. Her books have sold over 20 million copies. This page provides the Toni Morrison books in order, including both chronological publication order and her series reading order.

Books by Toni Morrison in Publication Order

1941 Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition(By: Siegfried Giedion) POoTCENLB / 1 Buy
1953 i: Six Nonlectures(By: E.E. Cummings) POoTCENLB / 2 Buy
1970 The Bluest Eye POoSN / 1 Buy
1972 Sincerity and Authenticity(By: Lionel Trilling) POoTCENLB / 3 Buy
1973 Sula POoSN / 2 Buy
1973 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance(By: Northrop Frye) POoTCENLB / 4 Buy
1977 Song of Solomon POoSN / 3 Buy
1981 Tar Baby POoSN / 4 Buy
1983 Recitatif POoSS / 1 Buy
1986 The American Newness(By: Irving Howe) POoTWEMSLB / 1 Buy
1987 Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 1 Buy
1987 Next(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 2 Buy
1987 Beloved POoSN / 5 Buy
1988 Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine) POoTWEMSLB / 2 Buy
1990 The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee) POoAPCB / 3 Buy
1990 Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis) POoTWEMSLB / 3 Buy
1991 Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 4 Buy
1992 Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power POoNB / 1 Buy
1992 Playing In The Dark POoTWEMSLB / 4 Buy
1992 Jazz POoSN / 6 Buy
1994 The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 POoNB / 2 Buy
1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison POoNB / 3 Buy
1994 What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux) POoAPCB / 5 Buy
1994 The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese) POoTWEMSLB / 5 Buy
1994 Six Walks in the Fictional Woods(By: Umberto Eco) POoTCENLB / 5 Buy
1994 Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) POoAPCB / 6 Buy
1995 The Romantic Generation(By: Charles Rosen) POoTCENLB / 6 Buy
1996 The Dancing Mind POoNB / 4 Buy
1996 The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 7 Buy
1997 Birth of a Nation'hood POoNB / 5 Buy
1997 Paradise POoSN / 7 Buy
1998 Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin) POoTWEMSLB / 6 Buy
1998 The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter) POoTWEMSLB / 7 Buy
1998 Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) POoAPCB / 8 Buy
1999 The Big Box POoC / 1 Buy
1999 Memoirs POoNB / 6 Buy
1999 Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty) POoTWEMSLB / 8 Buy
1999 The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco) POoTWEMSLB / 9 Buy
2000 Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio) POoAPCB / 9 Buy
2000 Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 10 Buy
2000 Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux) POoAPCB / 11 Buy
2001 Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee) POoAPCB / 12 Buy
2002 The Book of Mean People POoC / 2 Buy
2002 To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston) POoTWEMSLB / 10 Buy
2002 Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass) POoAPCB / 13 Buy
2002 The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez) POoAPCB / 14 Buy
2003 Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? POoWGGB / 1 Buy
2003 Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? POoWGGB / 2 Buy
2003 Who's Got Game? Three Fables POoWGGB / 3 Buy
2003 Lessons of the Masters(By: George Steiner) POoTCENLB / 7 Buy
2003 Love POoSN / 8 Buy
2003 Reporting The Universe(By: E.L. Doctorow) POoTWEMSLB / 11 Buy
2003 Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker) POoAPCB / 15 Buy
2003 The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson) POoAPCB / 16 Buy
2004 Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? POoWGGB / 4 Buy
2004 Remember POoNB / 7 Buy
2004 Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos) POoTWEMSLB / 12 Buy
2004 Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi) POoTWEMSLB / 13 Buy
2004 The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) POoAPCB / 17 Buy
2005 Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) POoTLIB / 1 Buy
2005 The Mirror Or The Glass? POoC / 3 Buy
2005 The Rooster's Wife(By: Russell Edson) POoAPCB / 18 Buy
2005 Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper) POoAPCB / 19 Buy
2005 You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) POoAPCB / 20 Buy
2006 Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye(By: Linda Nochlin) POoTCENLB / 8 Buy
2006 Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters) POoAPCB / 21 Buy
2006 Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass) POoAPCB / 22 Buy
2007 Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins) POoAPCB / 23 Buy
2007 Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews) POoAPCB / 24 Buy
2008 What Moves at the Margin POoNB / 8 Buy
2008 A Mercy POoSN / 9 Buy
2008 The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali) POoAPCB / 25 Buy
2008 Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker) POoAPCB / 26 Buy
2008 Voices(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 27 Buy
2009 Peeny Butter Fudge POoPB / 1 Buy
2009 Roberto Bola’o(By: Roberto Bola’o) POoTLIB / 2 Buy
2009 Burn This Book POoNB / 9 Buy
2009 To Die for the People POoNB / 10 Buy
2009 And(By: Michael Blumenthal) POoAPCB / 28 Buy
2009 Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch) POoAPCB / 29 Buy
2009 Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda) POoAPCB / 30 Buy
2009 Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan) POoAPCB / 31 Buy
2010 Little Cloud and Lady Wind POoPB / 2 Buy
2010 The Tortoise or the Hare POoPB / 3 Buy
2010 Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams) POoTWEMSLB / 14 Buy
2010 Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper) POoAPCB / 32 Buy
2010 Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck) POoAPCB / 33 Buy
2010 Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) POoAPCB / 34 Buy
2010 Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) POoAPCB / 35 Buy
2010 Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) POoAPCB / 36 Buy
2011 Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) POoTLIB / 3 Buy
2011 Home POoSN / 10 Buy
2011 Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay) POoAPCB / 37 Buy
2011 Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher) POoAPCB / 38 Buy
2011 Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy) POoAPCB / 39 Buy
2011 Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) POoAPCB / 40 Buy
2011 Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters) POoAPCB / 41 Buy
2011 The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington) POoAPCB / 42 Buy
2012 Desdemona POoP / 1 Buy
2012 Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) POoTLIB / 4 Buy
2012 True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff) POoAPCB / 43 Buy
2012 The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter) POoAPCB / 44 Buy
2012 To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) POoAPCB / 45 Buy
2012 The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(With: Kevin Young,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser) POoAPCB / 46 Buy
2012 Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley) POoAPCB / 47 Buy
2013 Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) POoTLIB / 5 Buy
2013 Please, Louise POoNB / 11 Buy
2013 Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) POoTWEMSLB / 16 Buy
2013 The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise) POoAPCB / 48 Buy
2013 No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown) POoAPCB / 49 Buy
2013 Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow) POoAPCB / 50 Buy
2013 Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels) POoAPCB / 51 Buy
2013 There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig) POoAPCB / 52 Buy
2014 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) POoTLIB / 6 Buy
2014 James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) POoTLIB / 7 Buy
2014 Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) POoTLIB / 8 Buy
2014 God Help the Child POoSN / 11 Buy
2014 The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers) POoAPCB / 53 Buy
2014 All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) POoAPCB / 54 Buy
2014 What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin) POoAPCB / 55 Buy
2014 Copia(By: Erika Meitner) POoAPCB / 56 Buy
2014 The Chair(By: Richard Garcia) POoAPCB / 57 Buy
2014 In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher) POoAPCB / 58 Buy
2015 Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez(By: Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez) POoTLIB / 9 Buy
2015 Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) POoTLIB / 10 Buy
2015 Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) POoTLIB / 11 Buy
2015 Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) POoTLIB / 12 Buy
2015 Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) POoTLIB / 13 Buy
2015 Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus) POoTWEMSLB / 17 Buy
2015 Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown) POoAPCB / 59 Buy
2015 Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep) POoAPCB / 60 Buy
2015 Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews) POoAPCB / 61 Buy
2015 Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) POoAPCB / 62 Buy
2015 Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O) POoAPCB / 63 Buy
2015 I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky) POoAPCB / 64 Buy
2015 Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez) POoAPCB / 65 Buy
2016 The Origin of Others POoTCENLB / 9 Buy
2016 J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) POoTLIB / 14 Buy
2016 Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) POoTLIB / 15 Buy
2016 Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) POoTLIB / 16 Buy
2016 David Bowie(By: David Bowie) POoTLIB / 17 Buy
2016 The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay) POoAPCB / 66 Buy
2016 Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters) POoAPCB / 67 Buy
2016 Whereso(By: Karen Volkman) POoAPCB / 68 Buy
2016 Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson) POoAPCB / 69 Buy
2016 The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns) POoAPCB / 70 Buy
2016 The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) POoAPCB / 71 Buy
2016 Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington) POoAPCB / 72 Buy
2016 Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter) POoAPCB / 73 Buy
2017 Race POoSS / 2 Buy
2017 Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse) POoTWEMSLB / 18 Buy
2017 Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) POoTLIB / 18 Buy
2017 Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) POoTLIB / 19 Buy
2017 The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) POoAPCB / 74 Buy
2017 Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter) POoAPCB / 75 Buy
2017 Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano) POoAPCB / 76 Buy
2017 The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty) POoAPCB / 77 Buy
2017 All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley) POoAPCB / 78 Buy
2018 Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) POoTLIB / 20 Buy
2018 Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) POoTLIB / 21 Buy
2018 Julia Child(By: Julia Child) POoTLIB / 22 Buy
2018 The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) POoAPCB / 79 Buy
2018 Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner) POoAPCB / 80 Buy
2018 Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy) POoAPCB / 81 Buy
2018 Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read) POoAPCB / 82 Buy
2018 In Country(By: HughMartin) POoAPCB / 83 Buy
2019 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations POoNB / 12 Buy
2019 Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations POoNB / 13 Buy
2019 Goodness and the Literary Imagination POoNB / 14 Buy
2019 The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard POoNB / 15 Buy
2019 The Measure of Our Lives POoNB / 16 Buy
2019 Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) POoTLIB / 23 Buy
2019 Prince(By: Prince) POoTLIB / 24 Buy
2019 Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) POoTLIB / 25 Buy
2019 Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) POoTLIB / 26 Buy
2019 Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) POoTLIB / 27 Buy
2019 The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) POoAPCB / 84 Buy
2019 All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers) POoAPCB / 85 Buy
2019 Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis) POoAPCB / 86 Buy
2019 The Human Half(By: Deborah Brown) POoAPCB / 87 Buy
2019 Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise) POoAPCB / 88 Buy
2019 On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl) POoAPCB / 89 Buy
2020 Toni Morrison POoTLIB / 28 Buy
2020 Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) POoTLIB / 29 Buy
2020 Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) POoTLIB / 30 Buy
2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 31 Buy
2020 Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) POoAPCB / 90 Buy
2020 Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez) POoAPCB / 91 Buy
2020 Let's Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky) POoAPCB / 92 Buy
2020 Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher) POoAPCB / 93 Buy
2020 Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton) POoAPCB / 94 Buy
2020 How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay) POoAPCB / 95 Buy
2020 Caw(By: Michael Waters) POoAPCB / 96 Buy
2020 Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) POoAPCB / 97 Buy
2020 Mother Country(By: Elana Bell) POoAPCB / 98 Buy
2021 Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) POoTLIB / 32 Buy
2021 The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) POoTLIB / 33 Buy
2021 Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) POoTLIB / 34 Buy
2021 Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) POoTLIB / 35 Buy
2021 John Lewis(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 36 Buy
2021 I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo) POoAPCB / 99 Buy
2021 The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies) POoAPCB / 100 Buy
2021 Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie) POoAPCB / 101 Buy
2022 Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 37 Buy
2022 Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 38 Buy
2022 Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 39 Buy
2022 Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner) POoAPCB / 102 Buy
2022 Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers) POoAPCB / 103 Buy
2022 A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson) POoAPCB / 104 Buy
2022 Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: Chen Chen) POoAPCB / 105 Buy
2022 A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) POoAPCB / 106 Buy
2022 Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher) POoAPCB / 107 Buy
2022 The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows) POoAPCB / 108 Buy
2023 Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) POoTLIB / 40 Buy
2023 Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) POoTLIB / 41 Buy
2026 Language as Liberation POoNB / 17 Buy

Complete Toni Morrison Series Reading Order / browse all ->

01 The American Newness(By: Irving Howe) 1986 Buy
02 Highbrow/lowbrow(By: Lawrence W. Levine) 1988 Buy
03 Revolutions(By: David Brion Davis) 1990 Buy
04 Playing In The Dark 1992 Buy
05 The Southern Tradition(By: Eugene D. Genovese) 1994 Buy
06 Writing Was Everything(By: Alfred Kazin) 1998 Buy
07 The Dissent Of The Governed(By: Stephen L. Carter) 1998 Buy
08 Achieving Our Country(By: Richard M. Rorty) 1999 Buy
09 The Real American Dream(By: Andrew Delbanco) 1999 Buy
10 To Be The Poet(By: Maxine Hong Kingston) 2002 Buy
11 Reporting The Universe(By: E.L. Doctorow) 2003 Buy
12 Circles And Lines(By: John Putnam Demos) 2004 Buy
13 Architecture As Signs And Systems(By: Robert Venturi) 2004 Buy
14 Reshaping The Work-family Debate(By: Joan C. Williams) 2010 Buy
16 Tiger Writing(By: Gish Jen) 2013 Buy
17 Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations(By: Greil Marcus) 2015 Buy
18 Just A Journalist(By: Linda Greenhouse) 2017 Buy
Picture Reading Order 3 books / 2009-2010
01 Peeny Butter Fudge 2009 Buy
02 Little Cloud and Lady Wind 2010 Buy
03 The Tortoise or the Hare 2010 Buy
01 Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton) 1987 Buy
02 Next(By: Lucille Clifton) 1987 Buy
03 The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee) 1990 Buy
04 Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton) 1991 Buy
05 What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux) 1994 Buy
06 Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1994 Buy
07 The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton) 1996 Buy
08 Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1998 Buy
09 Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio) 2000 Buy
10 Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton) 2000 Buy
11 Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux) 2000 Buy
12 Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee) 2001 Buy
13 Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass) 2002 Buy
14 The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez) 2002 Buy
15 Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker) 2003 Buy
16 The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson) 2003 Buy
17 The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) 2004 Buy
18 The Rooster's Wife(By: Russell Edson) 2005 Buy
19 Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper) 2005 Buy
20 You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2005 Buy
21 Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters) 2006 Buy
22 Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass) 2006 Buy
23 Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins) 2007 Buy
24 Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews) 2007 Buy
25 The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali) 2008 Buy
26 Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker) 2008 Buy
27 Voices(By: Lucille Clifton) 2008 Buy
28 And(By: Michael Blumenthal) 2009 Buy
29 Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch) 2009 Buy
30 Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda) 2009 Buy
31 Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan) 2009 Buy
32 Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper) 2010 Buy
33 Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck) 2010 Buy
34 Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) 2010 Buy
35 Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2010 Buy
36 Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2010 Buy
37 Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay) 2011 Buy
38 Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher) 2011 Buy
39 Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy) 2011 Buy
40 Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2011 Buy
41 Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters) 2011 Buy
42 The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington) 2011 Buy
43 True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff) 2012 Buy
44 The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter) 2012 Buy
45 To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2012 Buy
46 The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(With: Kevin Young,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser) 2012 Buy
47 Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley) 2012 Buy
48 The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise) 2013 Buy
49 No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown) 2013 Buy
50 Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow) 2013 Buy
51 Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels) 2013 Buy
52 There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig) 2013 Buy
53 The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers) 2014 Buy
54 All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2014 Buy
55 What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin) 2014 Buy
56 Copia(By: Erika Meitner) 2014 Buy
57 The Chair(By: Richard Garcia) 2014 Buy
58 In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher) 2014 Buy
59 Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown) 2015 Buy
60 Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep) 2015 Buy
61 Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews) 2015 Buy
62 Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2015 Buy
63 Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O) 2015 Buy
64 I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky) 2015 Buy
65 Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez) 2015 Buy
66 The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay) 2016 Buy
67 Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters) 2016 Buy
68 Whereso(By: Karen Volkman) 2016 Buy
69 Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson) 2016 Buy
70 The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns) 2016 Buy
71 The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2016 Buy
72 Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington) 2016 Buy
73 Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter) 2016 Buy
74 The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2017 Buy
75 Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter) 2017 Buy
76 Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano) 2017 Buy
77 The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty) 2017 Buy
78 All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley) 2017 Buy
79 The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2018 Buy
80 Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner) 2018 Buy
81 Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy) 2018 Buy
82 Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read) 2018 Buy
83 In Country(By: HughMartin) 2018 Buy
84 The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2019 Buy
85 All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers) 2019 Buy
86 Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis) 2019 Buy
87 The Human Half(By: Deborah Brown) 2019 Buy
88 Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise) 2019 Buy
89 On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl) 2019 Buy
90 Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2020 Buy
91 Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez) 2020 Buy
92 Let's Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky) 2020 Buy
93 Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher) 2020 Buy
94 Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton) 2020 Buy
95 How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay) 2020 Buy
96 Caw(By: Michael Waters) 2020 Buy
97 Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2020 Buy
98 Mother Country(By: Elana Bell) 2020 Buy
99 I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo) 2021 Buy
100 The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies) 2021 Buy
101 Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie) 2021 Buy
102 Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner) 2022 Buy
103 Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers) 2022 Buy
104 A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson) 2022 Buy
105 Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: Chen Chen) 2022 Buy
106 A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) 2022 Buy
107 Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher) 2022 Buy
108 The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows) 2022 Buy
01 Recitatif 1983 Buy
02 Race 2017 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 11 books / 1970-2014
01 The Bluest Eye 1970 Buy
02 Sula 1973 Buy
03 Song of Solomon 1977 Buy
04 Tar Baby 1981 Buy
05 Beloved 1987 Buy
06 Jazz 1992 Buy
07 Paradise 1997 Buy
08 Love 2003 Buy
09 A Mercy 2008 Buy
10 Home 2011 Buy
11 God Help the Child 2014 Buy
Plays Reading Order 1 book / 2012
01 Desdemona 2012 Buy
Who's Got Game? Reading Order 4 books / 2003-2004
01 Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? 2003 Buy
02 Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? 2003 Buy
03 Who's Got Game? Three Fables 2003 Buy
04 Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? 2004 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 17 books / 1992-2026
01 Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power 1992 Buy
02 The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 1994 Buy
03 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994 Buy
04 The Dancing Mind 1996 Buy
05 Birth of a Nation'hood 1997 Buy
06 Memoirs 1999 Buy
07 Remember 2004 Buy
08 What Moves at the Margin 2008 Buy
09 Burn This Book 2009 Buy
10 To Die for the People 2009 Buy
11 Please, Louise 2013 Buy
12 The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 2019 Buy
13 Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations 2019 Buy
14 Goodness and the Literary Imagination 2019 Buy
15 The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard 2019 Buy
16 The Measure of Our Lives 2019 Buy
17 Language as Liberation 2026 Buy
01 Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition(By: Siegfried Giedion) 1941 Buy
02 i: Six Nonlectures(By: E.E. Cummings) 1953 Buy
03 Sincerity and Authenticity(By: Lionel Trilling) 1972 Buy
04 The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance(By: Northrop Frye) 1973 Buy
05 Six Walks in the Fictional Woods(By: Umberto Eco) 1994 Buy
06 The Romantic Generation(By: Charles Rosen) 1995 Buy
07 Lessons of the Masters(By: George Steiner) 2003 Buy
08 Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye(By: Linda Nochlin) 2006 Buy
09 The Origin of Others 2016 Buy
The Last Interview Reading Order 41 books / 2005-2023
01 Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005 Buy
02 Roberto Bola’o(By: Roberto Bola’o) 2009 Buy
03 Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011 Buy
04 Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012 Buy
05 Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013 Buy
06 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014 Buy
07 James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014 Buy
08 Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014 Buy
09 Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez(By: Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez) 2015 Buy
10 Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015 Buy
11 Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015 Buy
12 Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015 Buy
13 Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015 Buy
14 J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016 Buy
15 Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016 Buy
16 Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016 Buy
17 David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016 Buy
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017 Buy
19 Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017 Buy
20 Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018 Buy
21 Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018 Buy
22 Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018 Buy
23 Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019 Buy
24 Prince(By: Prince) 2019 Buy
25 Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019 Buy
26 Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019 Buy
27 Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) 2019 Buy
28 Toni Morrison 2020 Buy
29 Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020 Buy
30 Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020 Buy
31 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020 Buy
32 Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021 Buy
33 The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021 Buy
34 Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021 Buy
35 Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021 Buy
36 John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021 Buy
37 Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
38 Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
39 Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022 Buy
40 Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023 Buy
41 Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023 Buy
Chapbooks Reading Order 3 books / 1999-2005
01 The Big Box 1999 Buy
02 The Book of Mean People 2002 Buy
03 The Mirror Or The Glass? 2005 Buy

Where to start with Toni Morrison

What is the best order to read Toni Morrison 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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