Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power | 1992 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 2 | The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 | 1994 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 3 | Conversations with Toni Morrison | 1994 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 4 | The Dancing Mind | 1996 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 5 | Birth of a Nation’hood | 1997 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 6 | Memoirs | 1999 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 7 | Remember | 2004 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 8 | What Moves at the Margin | 2008 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 9 | Burn This Book | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 10 | To Die for the People | 2009 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 11 | Please, Louise | 2013 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 12 | The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 13 | Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 14 | Goodness and the Literary Imagination | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 15 | The Writer Before the Page: From The Source of Self-Regard | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 16 | The Measure of Our Lives | 2019 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 17 | Language as Liberation | 2026 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
Toni Morrison’s non-fiction spans essays, edited collections, speeches, and criticism published over more than three decades. Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power (1992) was her first non-fiction work, an edited collection on the Clarence Thomas hearings. Her Nobel Lecture in Literature (1994) became one of the most quoted speeches in literary history.
Later collections like What Moves at the Margin (2008) and The Source of Self-Regard (2019) gather Morrison’s writing on literature, race, politics, and culture from across her career. Burn This Book (2009) is an edited collection on censorship, and Remember (2004) pairs Morrison’s text with photographs from the civil rights era. The posthumous Mouth Full of Blood (2019) and Language as Liberation (2026) continue to bring her non-fiction to new readers.