Order of Zora Neale Hurston Books
Zora Neale Hurston was a writer and anthropologist who was best known for writing the classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God. While her work was known in her life, it wasn’t until after she died that she started to receive the type of recognition that she deserved for her writing.
Hurston was born as the daughter to two former slaves. She graduated from Howard University with an associate degree and then moved to New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the 1920s. It was there that she became well known in the city’s art scene and began her writing career. One of her first acclaimed works was the short story, Sweat that told the story of a woman dealing with an unfaithful husband who takes her money, before receiving his comeuppance.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Jonah’s Gourd Vine |
(1934) |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
(1937) |
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Moses, Man of the Mountain |
(1939) |
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Seraph on the Suwanee |
(1948) |
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Barracoon |
(2018) |
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The Life of Herod the Great |
(2025) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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The Gilded Six-Bits |
(1986) |
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Sweat |
(1997) |
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The Mule-Bone |
(2023) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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Mules and Men |
(1935) |
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again |
(1979) |
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Hurston Reader |
(1979) |
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The Sanctified Church |
(1981) |
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Spunk! |
(1985) |
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The Complete Stories |
(1995) |
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Novels and Stories |
(1995) |
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Zora Neale Hurston: Stories |
(1995) |
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Zora Neale Hurston: Plays |
(1998) |
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Go Gator and Muddy the Water |
(1999) |
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Every Tongue Got to Confess |
(2001) |
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In Search of Our Sister’s Garden |
(2003) |
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What’s the Hurry, Fox? |
(2004) |
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The Skull Talks Back |
(2004) |
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Lies and Other Tall Tales |
(2005) |
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick |
(2020) |
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive |
(2020) |
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Bookmarks in the Pages of Life |
(2020) |
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Collected Early Works |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Plays
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Three Plays: Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing |
(2009) |
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De Turkey an de Law |
(2015) |
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Spunk: A Play |
(2016) |
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Three Plays: Meet the Mamma, Color Struck and Spunk |
(2022) |
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Color Struck |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Picture Books
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The Three Witches |
(2006) |
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Magnolia Flower |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
(1928) |
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Tell My Horse |
(1938) |
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Dust Tracks on a Road |
(1942) |
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Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings |
(1995) |
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Bottle Up and Go |
(1995) |
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Complete Essays |
(1997) |
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Collected Essays |
(1998) |
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters |
(2002) |
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA) Books
(with Lin Yutang)
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Chinatown Family |
(1950) |
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Chinatown Family (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas |
(1950) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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The Saturday Review Gallery |
(1959) |
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers |
(1967) |
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Louisiana Stories |
(1990) |
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Florida Stories |
(1993) |
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Writing Women’s Lives |
(1994) |
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Downhome |
(1995) |
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The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals |
(1996) |
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Writing New York |
(1998) |
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The Messenger Reader Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine |
(2000) |
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Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers |
(2001) |
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Rotten English: A Literary Anthology |
(2007) |
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Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell |
(2018) |
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Genuine Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau |
(2018) |
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American Midnight |
(2019) |
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Miami Noir |
(2020) |
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library |
(2021) |