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Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith series? Start with "Points of View" (1956) and follow publication order through all 37 books.
The complete Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Points of View
1956
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers
1967
I Am the Darker Brother
1968
The Black Woman
1970
Women and Fiction
1975
Stories of the Modern South
1977
The Writer on Her Work
1980
Stories from the Black Experience
1981
A World of Fiction
1983
Home Girls
1983
Through Other Eyes
1988
New Woman, New Fiction
1990
Cries of the Spirit
1991
Growing Up in the South
1991
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
Quartet Of Stories
1993
Hear My Voice
1993
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
Downhome
1995
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
1996
Sunrise to Sunset
1997
Wild Women
1997
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
Georgia Voices
2000
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
Writers on Writing
2001
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
2002
Dog is My Co-Pilot
2003
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
Sisters
2009
Hope Beneath Our Feet
2010
Circling Faith
2012
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell
2018
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
2021
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
2021
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
2023
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