Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joy | 2002 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 2 | Grown Folks Business | 2003 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 3 | Truth Be Told | 2004 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 4 | The Ex Files About Four Women and Faith | 2007 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 5 | The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil | 2011 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 6 | Destiny’s Divas | 2012 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 7 | Never Say Never | 2013 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 8 | Forever an Ex | 2014 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 9 | Touched by an Angel | 2014 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 10 | Stand Your Ground | 2015 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 11 | It Should’ve Been Me | 2016 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 12 | If Only For One Night | 2018 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 13 | The Personal Librarian | 2021 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 14 | The First Ladies | 2023 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
| 15 | Harlem Rhapsody | 2025 | Victoria Christopher Murray | Buy |
Victoria Christopher Murray has published fifteen standalone novels between 2002 and 2025. Her early standalones, including Joy (2002), Grown Folks Business (2003), and Truth Be Told (2004), established her voice in contemporary African American fiction with a faith-based perspective. The Ex Files About Four Women and Faith (2007) and The Deal, the Dance, and the Devil (2011) continued in this vein, building her readership through the 2000s and early 2010s.
Her most commercially successful standalone is The Personal Librarian (2021), a historical novel co-written with Marie Benedict. Based on the real life of Belle da Costa Greene, who served as J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian while hiding her African American heritage, the book became a bestseller and reached a wider audience than Murray’s earlier work. She followed it with The First Ladies (2023), another collaboration with Benedict, and her most recent novel, Harlem Rhapsody (2025). Stand Your Ground (2015) is also notable for its engagement with social issues, marking a shift toward weightier subject matter within her standalone catalog.