Novelist and editor
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison wrote novels about the weight of history in Black American families and communities. An editor as well as a writer, she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
On the shelves
Books in the collection
Fiction
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
Multiple voices illuminate a household in the unsettled world of seventeenth-century colonial America.
Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
A mother and daughter reckon with the afterlife of slavery in a house haunted by a child’s return.
Fiction
Jazz
Toni Morrison
A Harlem love triangle unfolds through a shifting narrative shaped by musical improvisation.
Fiction
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Milkman Dead follows family stories south in a novel about inheritance, naming, and flight.
Fiction
Sula
Toni Morrison
Two childhood friends take divergent paths in a hillside Ohio neighborhood.
Fiction
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Pecola Breedlove’s longing for blue eyes makes a community’s hierarchies painfully visible.
From the Lyric
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Reading notes / 01
Black Hamlets of the Bluegrass
Freedom, land, and the work of building communities in and beyond Kentucky.
Read Black Hamlets of the BluegrassReading notes / 02
Where we belong
A book club conversation about home, family, migration, and memory.
Read Where we belong