Books by Toni Morrison

The Ant or the Grasshopper? (2003)
A version of Aesop's Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time d...

Song of Solomon (1987)
Macon Dead, Jr., called Milkman, son of the richest Negro in town, moves from childhood into early m...

Home (2013)
Presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and ra...

A Mercy (2008)
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels ab...

Playing in the Dark (1993)
Examines the effect of a racially divided society on nineteenth century American writings, and discu...

Beloved (1987)
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunte...

Paradise (1999)
Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all...

The Bluest Eye (1970)
The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in an Ame...

Jazz (1992)
In a simple love story set in 1926 Harlem, fiftyish door-to-door salesman Joe Trace murders his teen...

Sula (1973)
The intense friendship shared by two African American women raised in an Ohio town changes when one ...