Books by Toni Morrison

A Mercy

by Toni Morrison

(1,163 review)

'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With... See More

Home

by Toni Morrison

(1,651 review)

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma... See More

The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 2016 Book 56)

by Toni Morrison

(777 reviews)

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and... See More

Sula

by Toni Morrison

(5,175 reviews)

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAMWALI SERPELL, AUTHOR OF THE OLD DRIFT As young girls... See More

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

(14,998 reviews)

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE Pecola... See More

Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision

by Toni Morrison

(65 reviews)

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard... See More

Desdemona (Modern Plays)

by Toni Morrison

(120 reviews)

The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello... See More

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

by Alfred Kazin

(180 reviews)

The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs -- or is thinking about writing one -- this... See More

Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations

by Toni Morrison

(208 reviews)

"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah Winfrey A vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American... See More

Paradise

by Toni Morrison

(763 reviews)

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of... See More

Tar Baby

by Toni Morrison

(973 reviews)

An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated... See More

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

(4,890 reviews)

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES Soon after a... See More

Love

by Toni Morrison

(645 reviews)

A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father... See More

Birth Of A Nation-Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O J Simpson Case

by Toni Morrison

(9 reviews)

An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together thirteen essays... See More

God Help the Child

by Toni Morrison

(5,072 reviews)

Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother... See More

Beloved: THE ICONIC PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL (Vintage Classics)

by Toni Morrison

(17,014 reviews)

'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the... See More

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

by Toni Morrison

(154 reviews)

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 New York Times bestselling author... See More

Jazz

by Toni Morrison

(1,286 review)

'Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past... Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers' Guardian Joe Trace - in his... See More

Recitatif

by Toni Morrison

(1,061 review)

'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine Evaristo Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then... See More

Race: Vintage Minis

by Toni Morrison

(87 reviews)

An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century's primary chroniclers of the African American experience. Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race... See More

Beloved (Spanish Edition)

by Toni Morrison

(672 reviews)

La obra maestra de la premio Nobel de Literatura Toni Morrison, «la mejor novela norteamericana de los últimos cincuenta años» según The New York Times, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del American Book Award «No... See More

Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community

by Anne Sexton

(3 reviews)

In Her Own Accord, contemporary American women explore the unique and important ways in which gender informs their lives. The 27 selections in this exciting new collection explore issues of identity, family, relationships... See More

Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement

by Toni Morrison

(7 reviews)

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and... See More

PEN America 14: The Good Books

by Margaret Atwood

(2 reviews)

n The Good Books, over 50 writers -- including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more -- choose the works in translation they'd bring to a great global book swap. Also featured... See More

The Tortoise or the Hare

by Toni Morrison

(54 reviews)

In the well-known tale of "The Tortoise and the Hare," everyone remembers that "slow and steady wins the race" -- or does it? In this energetic retelling of a favorite fable, it's the speedy Hare who crosses the finish line... See More

Little Cloud and Lady Wind

by Toni Morrison

(32 reviews)

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... See More

Please, Louise

by Toni Morrison

(92 reviews)

A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. On one gray afternoon, Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help... See More

Discursos Premios Nobel: Tomo 2 (Spanish Edition)

by José Chalarca

(13 reviews)

DISCURSOS DE : Czeslaw Milosz, Odiseas Elytis, Yasunari Kawabata, Toni Morrison, Camilo José Cela, Seamus Heaney, Naguib Mahfouz, V.S Naipaul, Heinrich Böll, Wislawa Szymborska, Joseph Brodsky Este segundo tomo de los... See More

Ploughshares Spring 2000 Guest-Edited by Paul Muldoon

by Toni Morrison

The Spring 2000 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Paul Muldoon. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More

Love (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)

by Toni Morrison

(21 reviews)

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - et même L - sont des femmes obsédées par Bill Cosey. Cosey incarne leurs désirs de père, mari, amant, protecteur, ami, désirs qui dominent les vies de ces femmes bien après sa... See More