Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bluest Eye | 1970 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 2 | Sula | 1973 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 3 | Song of Solomon | 1977 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 4 | Tar Baby | 1981 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 5 | Beloved | 1987 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 6 | Jazz | 1992 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 7 | Paradise | 1997 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 8 | Love | 2003 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 9 | A Mercy | 2008 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 10 | Home | 2011 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 11 | God Help the Child | 2014 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
Toni Morrison’s eleven novels span more than four decades and cover centuries of Black American experience. The Bluest Eye (1970) examines a young girl’s desire for blue eyes in a society that values whiteness, while Sula (1973) traces a friendship between two women in a small Ohio town. Song of Solomon (1977) follows a young man’s search for family history, and Tar Baby (1981) moves to the Caribbean.
Beloved (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is widely considered her greatest novel. It tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the child she killed to spare from slavery. Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1997) continued Morrison’s exploration of community, violence, and belonging. Her later novels, from Love (2003) through God Help the Child (2014), are shorter and more compressed but no less focused on the costs of racism and the complexity of love.