Odie Hawkins

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Sweet Peter Deeder

  • Scars and Memories

  • Memoirs of a Black Casanova

  • Ghetto Sketches

    Ghetto Sketches, with its sights, sounds and smells of the main stem ...the rat and roach infested tenements, the jazz-filled freedom of Saturday night, the soulful peace of Sunday morning, is more than a panorama of street life. It is a powerful ind...

  • Mr. Bonobo Bliss

  • Mr. Bonobo Bliss: A.K.A. "Bo"

  • Shackles Across Time

    Shackles Across Time traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave traders family in West Africa, and the subsequent effect of that curse on the family, over the course of three centuries. Modern technology he...

  • Sweet Peter Deeder II A.K.A. 'Mr. Sweets'

  • Amazing Grace

    An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters -- Elizabeth, “Queen of the Projects”; the girl “Billie” who sings like Lady Day; young Randolph who, to his family’s embarrassment, grows a second head for a while; Dean Dale ...



  • Black Chicago

    Chicago, the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700s by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-educated black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live on Maxwell Street. It’s a city steeped in Black History. This is the ...

  • Brazilian Nights

    Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, C...

  • The Busting Out Of An Ordinary Man

    Monday evening comn’ down -- the dreariest day of the week anywhere, but especially in the ghettos (yea, y’all, they still there) where people have taken their hangovers and other symptoms of a fast weekend to their individual plantations around ...

  • Chicago Hustle

    There was no sharper con man on the streets of Chicago than Elijah Brookes. Women were his preferred prey -- but no mark and no bankroll was safe when Elijah was on the prowl.   Cool, beautiful Toni warned him, “Elijah, brothers be playin’ g...

  • Conspiracy

    Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American ghettos destroy themselves by supplying them with a cheap but highly addictive drug known on the streets as “Ghetto Blaster.”...

  • The Great Lawd Buddha

    Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed "The Great Lawd Buddha" by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives to the world now and then. With his storytelling he s...

  • The Life And Times Of Chester L. Simmons

    Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself -- and write about it. He hooks up with “El Encanto”, a star-crossed matador. Then back to the States, where he meets and marries the love of his life. A honeymoon in W...

  • Lost Angeles

    In the post"Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of martial arts -- Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do. Author Odie Hawkins, using his special blend of wry humor, incisiveness, and sensitivity, takes alter ego Simmons through that expe...

  • Midnight

    Midnight offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African American gangster who is influenced by an older man, a convict, to look into his African side.   “You may not be what they’ve told you that you are, over here. When you c...

  • My Men Friends

    An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters-Bobo, Burks, Leo (sometimes, when into imaginative self-hatred, alias Tony De Medrow), Billy Woods, Herb Cross, Bruce, Mooney, Johnny Fox, Bernard Kelly and a few others who lived in ...



  • Portrait Of Simone

    Portrait of Simone is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the recent past, and his romance with a woman nearly twice his age. Simone is mysterious, alluring, charming, complex.   The author brings us the story o...

  • Secret Music

    Odie Hawkins utilizes the same thrust, power, and creativity that made Ghetto Sketches his first bestseller. He has moved the focus from Chicago to Los Angeles; and once again, he has populated his stories with unforgettable characters -- the telepho...

  • The Snake Doctor

    Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he ...

  • Lil Sweets

  • Hollow Daze

    Hollow Daze is the fictional account of an imaginary publishing house and the shenanigans that occur between the publishers and the writers whose books have been published by this publishing house. The novel is written in a semi-documentary s...

  • Black, White & Brown on the Blue Line

    Black, White & Brown On The Blue Line is an invitation to join a collection of strangers on an emotionally adventurous trip, from Long Beach, California to Downtown Los Angeles, California - and back....

  • Palm Wine Junction

    Palm Wine Junction has several stories reflecting the Pan-African Occult genre. I invite the perceptive reader to determine which stories come from that genre. I would also suggest that the prospective reader should not be led into thinking that the ...

  • Lil' Sweets

    Peter Wright is clinging to a chimney surrounded by dirty water after Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans when he first learns that the man he calls his father is not his real daddy. As his mother relays his shocking biological story, Peter discovers ...

  • Lil' Sweets: An Egungun Controls A Lot Of Spirits

    Hawkins delivers a novel that mixes the streetwise lingo of vintage pimp fiction together with scathing satirical commentary about the spread of global capitalism, the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the AIDS crisis in West Africa. A classic worthy ...

  • Matador Negro, Azucar II

    "I lit my fire, I greased my skillet with virgin pressed olive oil, and I cooked." That's one of the statements Chester L. Simmons, Jr. made about his career as a Novillero/Matador in the art of bullfighting. It's really weird that it should be calle...



  • Chester L. Simmons:

    Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed “The Great Lawd Buddha” by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives the world now and then. With his storytelling he som...

  • Menfriends

    An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters. Bobo, Burks, Leo (sometimes, when into imaginative self-hatred, alias Tony De Medrow), Billy Woods, Herb Cross, Bruce, Mooney, Johnny Fox, Bernard Kelly, and a few others who lived in t...

  • Chester L. Simmons

    Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed "The Great Lawd Buddha" by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives the world now and then. With his storytelling he sometim...

  • Ancestral Meridians

    The central idea/premise behind Ancestral Meridians is that there are undiscovered acupuncture points that could lead mankind to higher spiritual and emotional planes. Ancestral Meridians is designed to explore the possibility that these points may e...

  • Urban Nomads and Other Stories

    “Urban Nomads and Other Stories” offers the reader the possibility of being able to experience lifestyles, different people, circumstances that he/she might not ever experience during the normal course of their daily lives.
    In the era of “...

  • Ghetto Sketches, 2021

    The “Ghetto Sketches” was written in 1962, published in 1972. The ghettos in Chicago (North, South, Westside) provided the foundation for the novel. It is an impressionistic study of Washburne Avenue, a street on the Westside/ghetto in Chicago,...

  • Conversations with Likka Sto' Rufus

    Beginning with the title " “Conversations with Likka Sto’ Rufus”. Rufus is a complex African-American character. It would not be accurate to call him “Liquor Store Rufus”, because the cultural nuances would be muted. “Likka Sto...

  • A Story Teller's Story

    “The Story Teller’s Story” details 75 years of an African-American’s jammed up life. Hawkins offers us the insights and perspectives of a very observant African-American writer, who uses his experiences as a way to reaffirm the values, the f...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Odie Hawkins has published 37 books.

Odie Hawkins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Story Teller's Story, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Odie Hawkins, Sweet Peter Deeder, was published in January 1979.

No. Odie Hawkins does not write books in series.
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