Toni Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Books by Toni Morrison
4 books available
Jazz
by Toni Morrison
3.8(23,136)
In the winter of 1926 Harlem, a door-to-door salesman shoots his teenage lover, leading to his wife attacking the deceased at her funeral and unraveling a story of love, obsession, and Black urban life.
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
3.9(325,282)
In post-Civil War Ohio, an escaped mother faces the terrifying return of her murdered child, now a mysterious young woman demanding a reckoning for a past too horrific to forget.
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
4.1(173,284)
In a 1940s Ohio town, a young Black girl's desperate yearning for blue eyes reveals the devastating, internalized racism of a society that equates whiteness with worth.
Love
by Toni Morrison
3.8(9,510)
In a fading beach town, the ghost of the charismatic Bill Cosey continues to ignite a furious, multi-generational battle among the women who loved, hated, and were forever bound by his complicated legacy.