Jacqueline Woodson Books in Order

Jacqueline Woodson is a celebrated American author, poet, and young adult advocate, renowned for her poignant and powerful storytelling. As a child, she found solace in writing, crafting tales on every available surface, from paper bags and shoes to sidewalks and notebook margins. Her love for words and storytelling only deepened, and her creative voice began to flourish. Woodson's early writing achievements include a poem about Martin Luther King, which earned her local acclaim and a Scrabble game victory. Her fifth-grade teacher's praise for a story solidified her understanding that writing had the power to inspire and uplift. Since then, Woodson has gone on to craft a body of work that explores themes of identity, family, and social justice, including the National Book Award-winning novel "Brown Girl Dreaming."

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Jacqueline Woodson

  • #1
    The Book Chase(1994)
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  • #2
    Women on Women(1990)
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  • #3
    Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence(1994)
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  • #4
    Go the Way Your Blood Beats(1996)
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  • #5
    A Way Out of No Way(1996)
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  • #6
    Places I Never Meant To Be(1999)
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  • #7
    Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About The Future(1999)
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  • #8
    I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion(2000)
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  • #9
    One Hot Second: Stories About Desire(2002)
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  • #10
    Sixteen(2004)
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  • #11
    No Such Thing as the Real World(2008)
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  • #12
    The Letter Q(2012)
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  • #13
    How I Resist(2018)
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  • #14
    Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves(2018)
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  • #15
    Fight of the Century(2020)
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  • #16
    This Is Life(2022)
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  • #1
    I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This(1994)
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  • #2
    Lena(1999)
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  • #1
    Last Summer with Maizon(1990)
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  • #2
    Maizon at Blue Hill(1992)
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  • #3
    Between Madison and Palmetto(1993)
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  • #1
    Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday(1990)
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  • #2
    We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past(1997)
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  • #3
    Sweet, Sweet Memory(2000)
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  • #4
    Visiting Day(2001)
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  • #5
    The Other Side(2001)
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  • #6
    Our Gracie Aunt(2002)
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  • #7
    Coming On Home Soon(2004)
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  • #8
    Miss Grace's House(2005)
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  • #9
    Show Way(2005)
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  • #10
    Pecan Pie Baby(2010)
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  • #11
    Each Kindness(2012)
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  • #12
    This Is the Rope(2013)
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  • #13
    The Day You Begin(2018)
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  • #14
    The Year We Learned to Fly(2022)
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  • #15
    The World Belonged to Us(2022)
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  • #1
    The Dear One(1991)
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  • #2
    From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun(1995)
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  • #3
    Autobiography of a Family Photo(1995)
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  • #4
    The House You Pass on the Way(1997)
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  • #5
    Hush(2000)
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  • #6
    Miracle's Boys(2000)
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  • #7
    Feathers(2007)
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  • #8
    After Tupac and D Foster(2008)
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  • #9
    Beneath a Meth Moon(2012)
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  • #10
    Brown Girl Dreaming(2014)
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  • #11
    Another Brooklyn(2016)
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  • #12
    Harbor Me(2018)
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  • #13
    Red at the Bone(2019)
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  • #14
    Before the Ever After(2020)
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  • #15
    Remember Us(2023)
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  • #1
    Before Her(2019)
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  • #2
    Parable (By: Jess Walter)(2019)
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  • #3
    Lila (By: Naima Coster)(2019)
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  • #4
    A Wedding Thing (By: Shea Serrano)(2019)
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  • #5
    Yes, And (By: Kristi Coulter)(2019)
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  • #6
    The Visitor (By: Dodai Stewart)(2019)
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  • #7
    Speed Grieving (By: Allison Ellis)(2019)
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About Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is a celebrated American author, poet, and young adult advocate, renowned for her poignant and powerful storytelling. As a child, she found solace in writing, crafting tales on every available surface, from paper bags and shoes to sidewalks and notebook margins. Her love for words and storytelling only deepened, and her creative voice began to flourish. Woodson's early writing achievements include a poem about Martin Luther King, which earned her local acclaim and a Scrabble game victory. Her fifth-grade teacher's praise for a story solidified her understanding that writing had the power to inspire and uplift. Since then, Woodson has gone on to craft a body of work that explores themes of identity, family, and social justice, including the National Book Award-winning novel "Brown Girl Dreaming."

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