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Maya Angelou Books in Order
Author of 5 series.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Maya Angelou's book series? Maya Angelou has written 5 book series. The most notable is the Maya Angelou's Autobiography series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Maya Angelou
- #1
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(1969) - #2Gather Together in My Name(1974)
- #3Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas(1976)
- #4The Heart of a Woman(1981)
- #5All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes(1986)
- #6
A Song Flung Up to Heaven(2002) - #7
Mom & Me & Mom(2013)
- #1
Angelina of Italy(2004) - #2
Izak of Lapland(2004) - #3
Mikale of Hawaii(2004) - #4
Renee Marie of France(2004) - #5
Cedric of Jamaica(2005) - #6
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie(1971) - #7Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well(1975)
- #8And Still I Rise(1978)
- #9Now Sheba Sings the Song(1987)
- #10
I Shall Not Be Moved(1990) - #11
The Poetry of Maya Angelou(1993) - #12On the Pulse of Morning(1993)
- #13Soul Looks Back in Wonder(1993)
- #14The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou(1994)
- #15
The Complete Collected Poems(1994) - #16Maya Angelou: Poems(1994)
- #17Phenomenal Woman(1995)
- #18A Brave and Startling Truth(1995)
- #19
Black Pearls(1998) - #20
Van Gogh's Ear(2005) - #21Amazing Peace(2005)
- #22Celebrations(2006)
- #23
Love's Exquisite Freedom(2011)
- #1
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?(1983) - #2
Letter to My Daughter(1987) - #3Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now(1993)
- #4Even the Stars Look Lonesome(1996)
- #5
The Voyage of the Amistad(1997) - #6
Making Magic in the World(1998) - #7
Amistad (With: Steven Spielberg)(1998) - #8
Mary Ellen Mark (With: Mary Ellen Mark)(1999) - #9Graduation(2000)
- #10Hallelujah! The Welcome Table(2004)
- #11
Mother(2006) - #12
Great Food, All Day Long(2010) - #13
His Day Is Done(2014) - #14
Rainbow in the Cloud(2014) - #15
Understanding Aspergers(2014) - #16
Strategies of Abundance(2014)
- #1
Mrs. Flowers(1986) - #2
Life Doesn't Frighten Me(1993) - #3
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me(1994) - #4
Kofi and His Magic(1996)
- #1
Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(1977) - #2
Robert Frost (By: Robert Frost)(1994) - #3
Emily Dickinson (By: Emily Dickinson)(1994) - #4
Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)(1995) - #5
Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)(1995) - #6
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)(1998) - #7
Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(1999) - #8
Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)(2000) - #9
William Shakespeare (By: William Shakespeare)(2000) - #10
Lewis Carroll (By: Lewis Carroll)(2000) - #11
Rudyard Kipling (By: Rudyard Kipling)(2000) - #12
Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)(2001) - #13
American Poetry (By: John Hollander)(2002) - #14
William Butler Yeats (By: W.B. Yeats)(2002) - #15
Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)(2003) - #16Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(2003)
- #17
William Wordsworth (By: William Wordsworth)(2003) - #18
Alfred Tennyson (By: Alfred Tennyson)(2003) - #19
William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)(2003) - #20
Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)(2004) - #21
Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)(2004) - #22
The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)(2004) - #23
Langston Hughes (By: Langston Hughes)(2006) - #24
William Blake (By: William Blake)(2007) - #25
Poetry for Young People(2007) - #26
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)(2008) - #27
African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)(2013) - #28
Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(2017) - #29
I Am the Darker Brother(1968) - #30
Growing Up in the South(1991) - #31
Quartet Of Stories(1993) - #32
Writing Women's Lives(1994) - #33
The Little Big Book of California(2005) - #34
40 Model Essays(2005) - #35Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female(2006)
- #36
What I Know Now(2008) - #37
Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook(2012) - #38
Writers: Their Lives and Works(2018) - #39
Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World(2019)
About Maya Angelou
Author of 5 series.
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