Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Momma Left Me | 2010 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 2 | This Side of Home | 2015 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 3 | Piecing Me Together | 2017 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 4 | Watch Us Rise | 2019 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 5 | Some Places More Than Others | 2019 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 6 | Love Is a Revolution | 2021 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 7 | Skin & Bones | 2024 | Renee Watson | Buy |
| 8 | All the Blues in the Sky | 2025 | Renee Watson | Buy |
Renee Watson’s standalone novels span from her 2010 debut What Momma Left Me to All the Blues in the Sky in 2025. Her best-known work is Piecing Me Together (2017), which follows Jade, a Black teenager navigating a predominantly white private school while struggling with well-meaning but patronizing mentorship programs. The novel won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and earned a Newbery Honor.
Other standalone titles include This Side of Home (2015), about twin sisters dealing with neighborhood gentrification, and Love Is a Revolution (2021), a young adult romance. Watson’s writing returns again and again to questions of identity, belonging, and the tension between how others see you and who you know yourself to be.