K'wan

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2003
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Animal

0.5 - Ghetto Bastard (Feb-2015)
1 - Animal (Oct-2012)
2 - The Omen (Nov-2013)
3 - Revelations (Nov-2014)
4 - Last Rites (Oct-2015)
4.5 - Animal 4.5 (Apr-2017)
5 - Executioner's Song (Jun-2021)

Desperados

1 - Passion for the Heist (Sep-2024)
2 - A Murder of Crows (Jul-2025)

Diamonds

1 - Diamonds and Pearls (Oct-2016)
2 - The Diamond Empire (Oct-2017)

A Hood Rat Novel

1 - Hood Rat (Nov-2006)
2 - Still Hood (Oct-2007)
3 - Section 8 (Oct-2009)
4 - Welfare Wifeys (Oct-2010)
4.5 - The Leak (Oct-2011)
5 - Eviction Notice (Oct-2011)
5.5 - First & Fifteenth (Jun-2014)
6 - No Shade (Jun-2015)

Promises

1 - Promise Broken (Mar-2022)
2 - Promise Kept (Mar-2024)

Purple City Tales

1 - Purple Reign (Aug-2013)
2 - Little Nikki Grind (Jan-2014)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Gangsta: Triple Crown Publications Presents

    For years, Lou-Loc - an efficient assassin and O.G. of the Crip organization - did dirt. After dancing on the razor's edge, he becomes weary of the street life that consumed him during his years of service to his set. He begins to wonder, Is there a ...

  • Road Dawgz

    ''It's the penthouse or the morgue.''This is the philosophy adopted by Keshawn Wilson, a.k.a. ''K-Dawg,'' self-proclaimed lord of the streets. Keshawn is the youngest of five kids and one of only two that doesn't belong to his mother's husband. As a ...

  • Street Dreams

    Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of HarlemDaruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of escaping the ghetto. Years ago, he took a gun charge for a friend and did some p...

  • Hoodlum

    He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan.Born to one of the city's most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and ...

  • Eve

    The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learned the art of the hustle, and by age seventeen she had spent two years in prison. But now Eve is eighteen, back on the streets of Harl...

  • Hood Rat

    A Hood Rat Novel - 1

    National bestselling author K’wan presents a story of four women fighting to survive in the urban jungle.Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men’s hearts as well as their pockets. She learns the hard way that all th...

  • Still Hood

    A Hood Rat Novel - 2

    Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes not only to survive but to succeed, she wants out. And she's determined to make it out of Crooklyn. She's determined to make it out of Crooklyn by an...

  • Gutter

    The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived! Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It's been months since Lou-loc was brutally murdered on his way to freedom and the pain is still fresh. Gutter, Lou-loc's best friend, finds himse...

  • Section 8

    A Hood Rat Novel - 3

    Since she was a little girl, Tionna's on and off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means necessary. Tionna's heart is as cold as a December chill, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons, and her on-again-of...



  • Wild Cherry

    in Flirt

    In Wild Cherry by K'wan, Gina is married to a man who more than takes good care of her, but her life of luxury comes with a price that she's not sure she can pay anymore. Princess' man doesn't see her as any more than dollar signs -- as long as she ...

  • Flexin' and Sexin

  • Streets Of New York

    The first installment in this exciting series followed Promise, Squeeze, and Show as they robbed, whored, and fought their way to adulthood on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Now, it's a year later. Promise is trying to get out of the gangsta life, but...

  • Welfare Wifeys

    A Hood Rat Novel - 4

    After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas and finds fame and stardom as the newest act signed to the notorious Big Dawg Entertainment...

  • From Harlem With Love

    Harlem had always lived by the code of the streets and respected the rules that governed them, but when his enemies break those rules and bring drama to his family, Harlem comes up with a plan to send them a very clear message... all is fair in love ...

  • Gangland

  • Eviction Notice

    A Hood Rat Novel - 5

    When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an apartment from a mutual acquaintance, life becomes one big party for the girls. But the party comes to an abrupt end when they find out they’ve been fleeced for their money...

  • The Leak

    A Hood Rat Novel - 4.5

    The Leak is a complimentary short prequel story that leads into K'wan's hit novel, Welfare Wifeys. Learn how Animal got his start as a child of the streets, raised up by a man named Tech. Animal proves to be a quick study learning the game, but he’...

  • Love & Gunplay

    This revised edition contains a sneak peek at the upcoming Animal prequel "Ghetto Bastard" (July 8th 2014)After news of the attempted murder of his estranged fiancé, Gucci, Animal has two things on his mind, love and gunplay. With the help of his mi...

  • Animal

    Animal - 1

    K’wan, one of this generation’s most talented and gritty writers, delivers his bloodiest story yet. Animal follows the infamous fugitive from K’wan’s best-known Hood Rat Series on a revenge mission from the rugged streets of Puerto Rico to th...



  • The Life & Times of Slim Goodie

    Slim Goodie was once a respected narcotics detective with the N.Y.P.D, but after being caught up in a corruption scandal he's sent away to serve a lengthy prison sentence. When he returns home he finds out the world has moved on without him. His ex-w...

  • Purple Reign

    Purple City Tales - 1

  • The Omen

    Animal - 2

    In this second, bloody installment in the Animal saga, secrets are revealed, sides are chosen, and bodies are dropped -- it's on!The man ordered to take Animal from the world turns out to be the man who brought him into it. Animal finds himself torn ...

  • Gangsta

    Love always comes with a price. After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective, St. Louis 'Lou-Loc' Alexander finds himself a hunted man. Trying to stay one step ahead of the gas chamber, he flees to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. Fat...

  • Little Nikki Grind

    Purple City Tales - 2

  • The Fix

    What would you do if you felt like you were dying and the only thing that could save you was the very thing that was killing you? Persia Chandler doesn't know the meaning of the world struggle. After the arrest of her notorious father, she is whis...

  • Black Lotus

    Detective James Wolf earned the nickname Lone Wolf from his inability to work with a partner. He's a hard cop who doesn't mind bending the rules to the point of breaking them to make a case, which is why Internal Affairs is digging in his backyard, l...

  • First & Fifteenth

    A Hood Rat Novel - 5.5

  • Revelations

    Animal - 3

    After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet.After years of war on the streets the man known only as Animal is finally able to hang up his guns. He's ...

  • The Fix 2

    Two lives ... two paths ... one tragic outcome. The Fix 2 is in and the game is afoot! The past few months have been a living hell for Persia. Seemingly overnight, she has fallen from grace and found herself scraping rock bottom, all in the name o...



  • Ghetto Bastard

    Animal - 0.5

    What happens to the children that the world throws away? They become animals. Tayshawn Torres is a child born in the slums and cursed by the sins of his parents. His mother is a notorious drug addict and whore who's more concerned with getting he...

  • No Shade

    A Hood Rat Novel - 6

    Every little girl dreams of a happy ending: a home, children, and a man who loves her enough to share his life and last name. When Billy's longtime boyfriend, Marcus, finally pops the question, it's one of the happiest moments of her life. To stand w...

  • Last Rites

    Animal - 4

    Essence bestselling crime author, K’wan, returns with the explosive fourth installment in the Animal saga.A complex and bloody tale from one of this generation's most talented and gritty writers. Animal, the gentle and kind-hearted family man, is s...

  • The Fix 3

    In the third and final installment of The Fix Trilogy, two worlds that have been running parallel finally collide. Persia Chandler has managed to get her life back on track. Things are calm at home, she’s preparing to leave for college, and she...

  • Blow

    No going back ...

    Prince, Killa-E, Daddy-O, and Danny grew up together in the projects, moving crack and cocaine while answering to Diego, the neighborhood drug lord. They were small-timers playing for low stakes-until Prince is introduced t...

  • Diamonds and Pearls

    Diamonds - 1

    From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for ...

  • Animal 4.5

    Animal - 4.5

    ''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly Animal 4 Re-Issue featuring Bonus material. From the moment Animal's former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wo...

  • The Good Son

    Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year." - Library JournalAll he ever wanted to be was a Good Son ...Shai Clark was an all-American basketball player with aspirations of one day making it to the NBA, but that all chang...

  • The Diamond Empire

    Diamonds - 2

    The explosive, hard-hitting follow-up novel to the street love story Diamonds and Pearl. It’s about to be an all-out war. While an ambitious rival has taken over Diamonds’s crew, Diamonds lies in wait in exile, carefully planning his next move...

  • Lawless

    Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father...



  • Wrath

    In the history of New York City’s underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspire. Their stories are told on street corners and in back alleys. One of them is Jonas Rafferty, known among friends and ene...

  • Black Lotus 2: The Vow

    After helping to solve a cold case involving a murdered child which exposed the high-ranking city officials who tried to cover it up, Kahllah, a.k.a. the Black Lotus, has decided to take some much-needed time off and focus on her true passion: Real T...

  • Executioner's Song

    Animal - 5

    When the Grand Design is finally revealed it will spell the last ride for Mr. Armed and Brokenhearted. In this final installment of the widely popular Animal series, we find our anti-hero on a hunt for the woman who forced him to pick his guns back u...

  • The Reluctant King

    The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets.“K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense . . . There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gri...

  • Promise Broken

    Promises - 1

    Beware of the company you keep.K’wan’s urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and ...

  • Fool's Paradise

  • Promise Kept

    Promises - 2

    In this stunning sequel to Promise Broken, K’wan spins a pulse-pounding story about surviving, thriving, and the consequences of love.Promise and her best friend Mouse have fled Newark and are hiding out in New York City, wanted by the police&#...

  • Copula

    Sequel to Secunda.Patience has barely settled into married life with her husband and their inhuman partner when they are invited to spend the holidays up north. Along the way to meeting her new husband's family, the man and the monster begin to navig...

  • False Idols

    In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City's Five Points is in total disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crownAFTER THE ARREST OF CHANCELLOR KING and the murder of his eldest son and heir, Ghost, the...

  • Passion for the Heist

    Desperados - 1

    A crime would bring them together, grief would bind them and love would make them famous.Parish “Pain” Wells is a man freshly reintroduced to society, after serving time in state prison. Prior to his fall, Pain had been a heist man who showed the...



  • Black Godfather

    “Sometimes you gotta show muthafuckas that you’re a muthafucka, too.”   Since he was old enough to dream, all Antoine Grimm had ever wanted was to be a soldier like his grandfather, Big Ben Grimm. Coming from a military family, he had alwa...

  • A Murder of Crows

    Desperados - 2

Award-Winning Books by K'wan

Animal
2013 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) -- Adult Fiction
2013 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) -- Emerging Classic
Eviction Notice
2012 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) -- Adult Fiction
Hoodlum
2006 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

K'wan has published 51 books.

The next book by K'wan, A Murder of Crows, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by K'wan, Gangsta: Triple Crown Publications Presents, was published in January 2003.

Yes. K'wan has 6 series.
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