Toni Morrison

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    25 Books
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    June 1970
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    February 2022
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Toni Morrison...
February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019 (88)
Cause of death was pancreatic cancer.

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford and known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor.

Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Bluest Eye

    Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity -- and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove ...

  • Sula

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    As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. SULA is...

  • Song of Solomon

     

    In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morriso...

  • Tar Baby

    A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winnerJadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins....

  • Beloved

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    Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is...

  • Jazz

    From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword...

  • The Collected Novels of Toni Morrison

    Beautiful cloth-bound editions of the Nobel Prizeâ€"winning author’s first six novels -- her seminal works, together for the first time in one box set: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz.

  • Paradise

    The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present -- in prose that soars ...

  • The Big Box

    To make this group of kids abide by the rules, the grown-ups create a world inside a box . . . with toys, games, treats, and gifts, but these clever children are able to find their way out of the box and back into reality. 100,000 first printing....



  • The Book of Mean People

    "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean." In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book collaboration with her son, Slade, she offers a humorous look at how children experience meanness and anger in our w...

  • Love

    From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner -- a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town.“A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not on...

  • The Mirror or the Glass?

  • Who's Got Game?

    Packaged together in a single volume featuring easy-to-read type, a trio of fables follows themes of empowerment and triumph in the face of adversity, in a collection of stories in which familiar characters overcome adversity by tapping into inner st...

  • The Dancing Mind

    On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties...

  • A Mercy

    In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob is an...

  • Peeny Butter Fudge

    Snuggle, snuggle. Time to rest. Nana joins us in her nest. There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special! Nap time, story time, and playtime are transformed...

  • Little Cloud and Lady Wind

    Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and go where she wishes. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others? Will Little Cloud agree ther...

  • The Tortoise or the Hare

    Everyone knows that in the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, the slow and steady tortoise wins--always wins. Or does he? In this energetic retelling Hare wins but the Tortoise has the story to tell. So you decide, what makes a winner? ...

  • Home

    America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured...



  • God Help the Child

    Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child" -- the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment -- weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman ...

  • Race

    Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals int...

  • The Writer Before the Page

    A Vintage Shorts selection.In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writer’s task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of...

  • The Measure of Our Lives

    At once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith.She was our conscience. Our seer. Our tr...

  • For the Love of Ian

    A story of Ian's childhood and who he was before his struggles with schizophrenia. The age of Ian's onset of the disease and what he had endured through his many assessments. The effects his illness had on his family, with spouse, friends, and the...

  • Recitatif

    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner -- for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Z...

Award-Winning Books by Toni Morrison

Beloved
1988 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
God Help the Child
2016 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- Fiction
Song of Solomon
1977 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Toni Morrison has published 25 books.

Toni Morrison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Recitatif, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, was published in June 1970.

No. Toni Morrison does not write books in series.
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