Order of Toni Morrison Books
Toni Morrison was an author, editor, essayist and teacher. Born on February 18th, 1931, Toni passed away on August 5th, 2019.
Toni was an award winning author with various medals and awards earned over her career. These include a Nobel Price in Literature in the early 90s, and the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American letters from the National Book Foundation.
If you are looking to read a book written by Toni, read Beloved. It is an absolutely incredible book. More on that below:
Publication Order of Who's Got Game? Books
| Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Who's Got Game? Three Fables | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Bluest Eye | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sula | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Song of Solomon | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tar Baby | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beloved | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jazz | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Paradise | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Mercy | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Home | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| God Help the Child | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Recitatif | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Race | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
| The Big Box | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Mean People | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mirror Or The Glass? | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Peeny Butter Fudge | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Cloud and Lady Wind | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tortoise or the Hare | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
| Desdemona | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Playing in the Dark | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dancing Mind | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Birth of a Nation'hood | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Memoirs | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Remember | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What Moves at the Margin | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Burn This Book | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Die for the People | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Please, Louise | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Goodness and the Literary Imagination | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Measure of Our Lives | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
| Learning to Live Finally | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kurt Vonnegut | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jorge Luis Borges | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gabriel García Márquez | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lou Reed | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ernest Hemingway | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nora Ephron: The Last Interview | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Philip K. Dick | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J. D. Salinger | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Oliver Sacks | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jane Jacobs | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| David Bowie | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christopher Hitchens | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hunter S. Thompson | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Books
| Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| i: Six Nonlectures | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sincerity and Authenticity | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Six Walks in the Fictional Woods | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Romantic Generation | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lessons of the Masters | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Origin of Others | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Go the Way Your Blood Beats | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Good Parts | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Satin | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Women of Color Pray | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Beloved: Beloved is inspired by Margaret Garner, who was an African-American women that was enslaved. Garner was someone who had escaped slavery however was chased down by slave hunters. Realizing that she was going to be returning to slavery, Margaret made the incredible decision to kill her 2 year old daughter and herself. She was unable to kill herself in time however prior to being captured in what was a horrific story. The story itself is imagining the dead baby returning as a ghost and haunting the mother and her family.
This was an incredible story and was a 25 week bestseller. It’s the first of three novels which is called the “Beloved Trilogy” with Jazz the next one, followed by Paradize.
An absolutely incredible series. Beloved also received a movie adaptation which was co-produced by Oprah.
Toni will be missed.