Bernice L. McFadden

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Yo Gabba Gabba!

School Is Awesome! (Jul-2014)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Sugar

    20th Anniversary Edition -- with a New Foreword by Kimberly EliseA novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemporary fiction, praised by Ebony for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until...

  • The Warmest December

    The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s best-selling second novel praised by Toni Morrison, USA Today, Washington Post, and others -- published simultaneously with McFadden’s new novel Gathering of Waters.“McFadden’s reissued second novel take...

  • This Bitter Earth

    This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past. When Suga...

  • Camilla's Roses

    A reissue of a hidden gem from the award-winning author of Sugar, this novel tells the story of a woman who uncovers the fragility of life and the enduring strength of family love.Camilla’s childhood was immersed in love and chaos, and steeped in p...

  • Nowhere Is a Place

    The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery "An engrossing multigenerational saga . . . With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignan...

  • Glorious

    Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bar...

  • Gathering of Waters

    Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history f...

  • My Name is Butterfly

  • School Is Awesome!

    Yo Gabba Gabba!

    Go to school with the Gabba Gang in this storybook based on an episode of the popular show! It’s the first day of school in Gabba Land, and Brobee and Toodee are nervous -- what if school is hard? With a little help from Plex, the gang finds out...



  • The Book of Harlan

    "The Book of Harlan" opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Ha...

  • Praise Song for the Butterflies

    Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in Ghana as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe's father, following his mothe...

  • Tisoy

    From Bernice L. McFadden, one of the most cherished voices in contemporary fiction, comes a dramatic family saga spanning two generations of one mixed-race family during the second half of the 20th century.  When we meet Joseph Patrick, he'...

  • Fever

    The second of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first timeThree years have passed since four friends—Geneva, Chevy, Crystal, and Noah—had a steamy su...

  • Groove

    The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first timeYou never know what’s going on behind someone’s groove.New York City, April 2002: Geneva...

  • Loving Donovan

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    A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history“Bernice L. McFadden was one of the best writers to emerge in the postâ€"Waiting to Exhale explosi...

Award-Winning Books by Bernice L. McFadden

Glorious
2011 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bernice L. McFadden has published 15 books.

The next book by Bernice L. McFadden, Fever, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Bernice L. McFadden, Sugar, was published in January 2000.

No. Bernice L. McFadden does not write books in series.
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