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List of Toni Morrison Books in Order
Exploring the chronological sequence of Toni Morrison’s literary works reveals a nuanced evolution of themes and narratives that captivate readers and invite introspection. From her early novels like ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘Sula’ to later masterpieces such as ‘Beloved’ and ‘Jazz,’ Morrison’s oeuvre presents a tapestry of history, culture, and human experiences. Each book intricately weaves together elements of identity, trauma, and resilience, inviting readers to immerse themselves in a profound exploration of the human condition. The sequential progression of Morrison’s novels offers a rich opportunity to trace the development of her distinctive voice and thematic preoccupations, making it a journey worth embarking on.
Publication Order of Who’s Got Game? Books
| Who’s Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | (2003) | Amazon |
| Who’s Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? | (2003) | Amazon |
| Who’s Got Game? Three Fables | (2003) | Amazon |
| Who’s Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? | (2004) | Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Bluest Eye | (1970) | Amazon |
| Sula | (1973) | Amazon |
| Song of Solomon | (1977) | Amazon |
| Tar Baby | (1981) | Amazon |
| Beloved | (1987) | Amazon |
| Jazz | (1992) | Amazon |
| Paradise | (1997) | Amazon |
| Love | (2003) | Amazon |
| A Mercy | (2008) | Amazon |
| Home | (2011) | Amazon |
| God Help the Child | (2014) | Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Chapbooks
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Peeny Butter Fudge | (2009) | Amazon |
| Little Cloud and Lady Wind | (2010) | Amazon |
| The Tortoise or the Hare | (2010) | Amazon |
Publication Order of Plays
| Desdemona | (2012) | Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Playing in the Dark | (1992) | Amazon |
| Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power | (1992) | Amazon |
| The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 | (1994) | Amazon |
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Amazon |
| The Dancing Mind | (1996) | Amazon |
| Birth of a Nation’hood | (1997) | Amazon |
| Memoirs | (1999) | Amazon |
| Remember | (2004) | Amazon |
| What Moves at the Margin | (2008) | Amazon |
| Burn This Book | (2009) | Amazon |
| To Die for the People | (2009) | Amazon |
| Please, Louise | (2013) | Amazon |
| The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | (2019) | Amazon |
| Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations | (2019) | Amazon |
| Goodness and the Literary Imagination | (2019) | Amazon |
| The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard | (2019) | Amazon |
| The Measure of Our Lives | (2019) | Amazon |
Publication Order of American Poets Continuum Books
| Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton) | (1987) | Amazon |
| Next(By: Lucille Clifton) | (1987) | Amazon |
| The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee) | (1990) | Amazon |
| Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton) | (1991) | Amazon |
| What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux) | (1994) | Amazon |
| Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | (1994) | Amazon |
| The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton) | (1996) | Amazon |
| Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | (1998) | Amazon |
| Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio) | (2000) | Amazon |
| Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton) | (2000) | Amazon |
| Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux) | (2000) | Amazon |
| Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee) | (2001) | Amazon |
| Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass) | (2002) | Amazon |
| The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez) | (2002) | Amazon |
| Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker) | (2003) | Amazon |
| The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson) | (2003) | Amazon |
| The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) | (2004) | Amazon |
| The Rooster’s Wife(By: Russell Edson) | (2005) | Amazon |
| Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper) | (2005) | Amazon |
| You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | (2005) | Amazon |
| Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters) | (2006) | Amazon |
| Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass) | (2006) | Amazon |
| Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins) | (2007) | Amazon |
| Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews) | (2007) | Amazon |
| The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali) | (2008) | Amazon |
| Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker) | (2008) | Amazon |
| Voices(By: Lucille Clifton) | (2008) | Amazon |
| And(By: Michael Blumenthal) | (2009) | Amazon |
| Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch) | (2009) | Amazon |
| Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda) | (2009) | Amazon |
| Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan) | (2009) | Amazon |
| Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper) | (2010) | Amazon |
| Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck) | (2010) | Amazon |
| Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) | (2010) | Amazon |
| Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) | (2010) | Amazon |
| Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | (2010) | Amazon |
| Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay) | (2011) | Amazon |
| Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher) | (2011) | Amazon |
| Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy) | (2011) | Amazon |
| Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | (2011) | Amazon |
| Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters) | (2011) | Amazon |
| The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington) | (2011) | Amazon |
| True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff) | (2012) | Amazon |
| The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter) | (2012) | Amazon |
| To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) | (2012) | Amazon |
| The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(With: Kevin Young,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser) | (2012) | Amazon |
| Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley) | (2012) | Amazon |
| The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise) | (2013) | Amazon |
| No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown) | (2013) | Amazon |
| Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow) | (2013) | Amazon |
| Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels) | (2013) | Amazon |
| There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig) | (2013) | Amazon |
| The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers) | (2014) | Amazon |
| All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | (2014) | Amazon |
| What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin) | (2014) | Amazon |
| Copia(By: Erika Meitner) | (2014) | Amazon |
| The Chair(By: Richard Garcia) | (2014) | Amazon |
| In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher) | (2014) | Amazon |
| Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O) | (2015) | Amazon |
| I’m No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez) | (2015) | Amazon |
| The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Whereso(By: Karen Volkman) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson) | (2016) | Amazon |
| The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns) | (2016) | Amazon |
| The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter) | (2016) | Amazon |
| The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) | (2017) | Amazon |
| Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter) | (2017) | Amazon |
| Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano) | (2017) | Amazon |
| The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty) | (2017) | Amazon |
| All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley) | (2017) | Amazon |
| The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read) | (2018) | Amazon |
| In Country(By: HughMartin) | (2018) | Amazon |
| The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) | (2019) | Amazon |
| All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis) | (2019) | Amazon |
| The Human Half(By: Deborah Brown) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise) | (2019) | Amazon |
| On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Let’s Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton) | (2020) | Amazon |
| How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Caw(By: Michael Waters) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Mother Country(By: Elana Bell) | (2020) | Amazon |
| I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo) | (2021) | Amazon |
| The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies) | (2021) | Amazon |
| Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie) | (2021) | Amazon |
| Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner) | (2022) | Amazon |
| Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers) | (2022) | Amazon |
| A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson) | (2022) | Amazon |
| Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: ) | (2022) | Amazon |
| A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) | (2022) | Amazon |
| Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher) | (2022) | Amazon |
| The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows) | (2022) | Amazon |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
| Learning to Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) | (2005) | Amazon |
| Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations(By: Roberto Bolaño) | (2009) | Amazon |
| Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut) | (2011) | Amazon |
| Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) | (2012) | Amazon |
| Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations(By: Hannah Arendt) | (2013) | Amazon |
| James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) | (2014) | Amazon |
| Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) | (2014) | Amazon |
| Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Nora Ephron: The Last Interview(By: Nora Ephron) | (2015) | Amazon |
| Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) | (2015) | Amazon |
| J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) | (2016) | Amazon |
| David Bowie(By: David Bowie) | (2016) | Amazon |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) | (2017) | Amazon |
| Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) | (2017) | Amazon |
| Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Kathy Acker) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations(By: Julia Child) | (2018) | Amazon |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Billie Holiday,Khanya Mtshali) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Graham Greene) | (2019) | Amazon |
| Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Amazon |
| Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Frida Kahlo) | (2020) | Amazon |
| Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Shirley Chisholm) | (2021) | Amazon |
| Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Fred Rogers) | (2021) | Amazon |
| Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Johnny Cash) | (2021) | Amazon |
| John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations(By: Melville House) | (2021) | Amazon |
| Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations(By: Melville House) | (2022) | Amazon |
| Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Melville House) | (2022) | Amazon |
| bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: bell hooks) | (2023) | Amazon |
| Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations(By: Melville House) | (2023) | Amazon |
Publication Order of The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Books
| Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition(By: Siegfried Giedion) | (1941) | Amazon |
| i: Six Nonlectures(By: E.E. Cummings) | (1953) | Amazon |
| Sincerity and Authenticity(By: Lionel Trilling) | (1972) | Amazon |
| The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance(By: Northrop Frye) | (1973) | Amazon |
| Six Walks in the Fictional Woods(By: Umberto Eco) | (1994) | Amazon |
| The Romantic Generation(By: Charles Rosen) | (1995) | Amazon |
| Lessons of the Masters(By: George Steiner) | (2003) | Amazon |
| The Origin of Others | (2016) | Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | (1987) | Amazon |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats | (1996) | Amazon |
| The Good Parts | (2000) | Amazon |
| Black Satin | (2004) | Amazon |
| Women of Color Pray | (2012) | Amazon |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Amazon |
| On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library | (2021) | Amazon |
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Synopsis
Exploring the intricate narratives and profound themes within Toni Morrison’s works reveals a spellbinding journey through the complexities of human experiences. Morrison’s novels delve deeply into the African American experience, history, and culture, providing a potent and poignant exploration of identity, trauma, and resilience.
In ‘Beloved,’ Sethe, a former slave, grapples with the haunting memories of her past and the ghostly presence of her deceased daughter. ‘Jazz’ intricately weaves together themes of love, betrayal, and the search for belonging in 1920s Harlem. ‘Paradise’ delves into the complexities of race, gender, and power within a small all-Black town.
Morrison’s enthralling storytelling and rich character development make her works essential reads for those seeking profound reflections on the human condition.
Review Summary
An analysis of critical reviews provides valuable insights into the reception of Toni Morrison’s compelling literary works. Throughout her illustrious career, Morrison’s books have garnered widespread acclaim from both readers and critics alike.
Beloved, the first book in the Beloved Trilogy, is often hailed as a masterpiece for its exploration of the legacy of slavery and its haunting narrative.
Jazz, the second installment in the trilogy, captivates audiences with its lyrical prose and intricate storytelling.
Paradise, the final book in the trilogy, continues to showcase Morrison’s unparalleled talent for delving into complex themes with grace and depth.
