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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1996
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • “Warm and intimate. . . . An accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life.” --  Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTumbling is the beloved bestsellin...



  • Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival.Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents...



  • "McKinney-Whetstone uses her gift for language to weave a love story that spans more than twenty years and three lives. . . . Blues Dancing is a novel well worth curling up with a long winter’s night."  -- EssenceFrom acclaimed write...



  • A riveting tale about a back-room abortion that has devastating consequences for two teenage girls on a close knit Philadelphia block circa 1972Block parties were king in this West Philadelphia neighborhood, especially the year Cecil Street decided t...



  • From the author of Blues Dancing and Tumbling -- a writer who “ought to be classified among the best of all contemporary fiction writers period” (Detroit Free Press) -- comes a riveting novel about the desire for redemption and rebirthMoving acro...



  • This stunning new novel from Diane McKinney-Whetstone, nationally bestselling author of Tumbling, begins in the chaotic backstreets of post-Civil War Philadelphia as a young black woman gives birth to a child fathered by her wealthy white employer. ...



  • Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. The Gen -- short for Sexagenarian -- is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the...



  • Family Threads has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Diane McKinney-Whetstone has published 8 books.

The next book by Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Family Threads, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Tumbling, was published in April 1996.

No. Diane McKinney-Whetstone does not write books in series.