Alice Walker Books in Order
Alice Walker is a celebrated American writer, renowned for her powerful and thought-provoking works across various genres, including novels, stories, essays, and poetry. As a pioneering force in contemporary literature, she made history in 1983 by becoming the first African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, which also earned her the National Book Award. Walker's extensive bibliography includes The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Through her writing and public advocacy, Walker continues to address pressing issues of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an outspoken activist, educator, and public intellectual.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Alice Walker
- #1AmazonPoints of View(1956)
- #2AmazonThe Best Short Stories by Black Writers(1967)
- #3AmazonI Am the Darker Brother(1968)
- #4AmazonThe Black Woman(1970)
- #5AmazonWomen and Fiction(1975)
- #6AmazonStories of the Modern South(1977)
- #7AmazonThe Writer on Her Work(1980)
- #8AmazonStories from the Black Experience(1981)
- #9AmazonA World of Fiction(1983)
- #10AmazonHome Girls(1983)
- #11AmazonThrough Other Eyes(1988)
- #12AmazonNew Woman, New Fiction(1990)
- #13AmazonCries of the Spirit(1991)
- #14AmazonGrowing Up in the South(1991)
- #15AmazonThe Short Story: 30 Masterpieces(1992)
- #16AmazonQuartet Of Stories(1993)
- #17AmazonHear My Voice(1993)
- #18AmazonFirst Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers(1994)
- #19AmazonListening for God Reader, Vol. 1(1994)
- #20AmazonDownhome(1995)
- #21AmazonGo the Way Your Blood Beats(1996)
- #22AmazonSunrise to Sunset(1997)
- #23AmazonWild Women(1997)
- #24AmazonThe Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction(1999)
- #25AmazonGeorgia Voices(2000)
- #26Amazon40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology(2000)
- #27AmazonWriters on Writing(2001)
- #28AmazonMaking Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature(2002)
- #29AmazonDog is My Co-Pilot(2003)
- #30AmazonThe Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles(2004)
- #31AmazonSisters(2009)
- #32AmazonHope Beneath Our Feet(2010)
- #33AmazonCircling Faith(2012)
- #34AmazonLetters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell(2018)
- #35AmazonMouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought(2021)
- #36AmazonOn Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library(2021)
- #37AmazonHome Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology(2023)
- #1AmazonThe Life of Thomas Lodge(1974)
- #2AmazonIn Search of Our Mother's Garden(1983)
- #3AmazonArt Against Apartheid(1986)
- #4AmazonLangston Hughes(1987)
- #5AmazonLiving by the Word(1988)
- #6AmazonWarrior Marks(1993)
- #7AmazonThe Same River Twice(1996)
- #8AmazonAlice Walker Banned(1996)
- #9AmazonAnything We Love Can Be Saved(1997)
- #10AmazonGo Girl!(1997)
- #11AmazonPema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation(1999)
- #12AmazonSent by Earth(2001)
- #13AmazonThere Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me(2006)
- #14AmazonWe Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for(2006)
- #15AmazonWhy War Is Never a Good Idea(2007)
- #16AmazonOvercoming Speechlessness(2009)
- #17AmazonThe World Has Changed(2010)
- #18AmazonThe Chicken Chronicles(2011)
- #19AmazonThe Cushion in the Road(2013)
- #20AmazonMy Life as My Self(2015)
- #21AmazonGathering Blossoms Under Fire(2020)
- #1AmazonFor Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)(1993)
- #2AmazonFood Fictions (By: Symphony Space)(2007)
- #3AmazonTravel Tales (By: Symphony Space)(2007)
- #4AmazonEdith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)(2007)
- #5AmazonPets! (By: Symphony Space)(2007)
- #6AmazonTales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever,Tessa Hadley,John Biguenet,Adam Haslett,Rattawut Lapcharoensap,Symphony Space,Galina Vromen)(2007)
- #7AmazonFamily Matters (By: Symphony Space)(2007)
- #8AmazonAre We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)(2008)
- #9AmazonThe William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford,Tobias Wolff,Aleksandar Hemon,William Hurt,Ron Carlson,Symphony Space)(2009)
- #10AmazonAmerican Classics (With: Edgar Allan Poe,Joyce Carol Oates,Eudora Welty,John Cheever,Donald Barthelme,John Sayles,Amy Tan,Symphony Space)(2010)
- #11AmazonNew American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie,Jhumpa Lahiri,Aleksandar Hemon,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Symphony Space)(2011)
- #12AmazonPoe! (By: Symphony Space)(2012)
- #1AmazonThe Third Life of Grange Copeland(1970)
- #2AmazonMeridian(1976)
- #3AmazonFinding the Green Stone(1991)
- #4AmazonBy the Light of My Father's Smile(1998)
- #5AmazonNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart(2004)
- #6AmazonRevolutionary Petunias(1973)
- #7AmazonIn Love & Trouble(1973)
- #8AmazonOnce(1976)
- #9AmazonGood Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning(1979)
- #10AmazonYou Can't Keep a Good Woman Down(1981)
- #11AmazonHorses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful(1985)
- #12AmazonAlice Walker Poetry(1985)
- #13AmazonHer Blue Body Everything We Know(1991)
- #14AmazonEveryday Use(1992)
- #15AmazonGiving Birth, Finding Form(1993)
- #16AmazonThe Complete Stories(1994)
- #17AmazonThe Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart(2000)
- #18AmazonAbsolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth(2003)
- #19AmazonA Poem Traveled Down My Arm(2003)
- #20AmazonCollected Poems(2005)
- #21AmazonHard Times Require Furious Dancing(2010)
- #22AmazonThe World Will Follow Joy(2013)
- #23AmazonCollected Essays, Prose, and Stories(2018)
- #24AmazonTaking the Arrow Out of the Heart(2018)
About Alice Walker
Alice Walker is a celebrated American writer, renowned for her powerful and thought-provoking works across various genres, including novels, stories, essays, and poetry. As a pioneering force in contemporary literature, she made history in 1983 by becoming the first African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, which also earned her the National Book Award. Walker's extensive bibliography includes The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Through her writing and public advocacy, Walker continues to address pressing issues of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an outspoken activist, educator, and public intellectual.
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