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James Baldwin Books in Order
James Baldwin is a renowned American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. He offers a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. Born to a family of nine children, Baldwin's stepfather was a minister who played a significant influence on his early life. At 14, he began serving as a preacher at the Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem, but eventually shifted his devotion from faith to literature. Critics note that the impassioned cadences of Black churches still resonate in his writing. His notable works include the partially autobiographical novel <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i>, as well as influential essay collections such as <i>Notes of a Native Son</i>, <i>Nobody Knows My Name</i>, and <i>The Fire Next Time</i>.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of James Baldwin's book series? James Baldwin has written 6 book series. The most notable is the Literary Conversations series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by James Baldwin
- #1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969) - #2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981) - #3
Conversations with Graham Greene(1983) - #4
Conversations with Eudora Welty(1985) - #5
Conversations with Walker Percy(1985) - #6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985) - #7
Conversations with William Styron(1985) - #8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986) - #9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman(1986) - #10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams(1986) - #11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986) - #12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987) - #13
Truman Capote: Conversations(1987) - #14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987) - #15
Conversations with Peter Taylor(1987) - #16
Conversations with Arthur Miller(1987) - #17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988) - #18
Conversations with Edward Albee(1988) - #19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988) - #20
Conversations with Norman Mailer(1988) - #21
Conversations with Robert Graves(1989) - #22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989) - #23
Conversations with Shelby Foote(1989) - #24
Conversations with Robertson Davies(1989) - #25
Conversations with James Baldwin(1989) - #26
Conversations with John Gardner(1990) - #27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur(1990) - #28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe(1990) - #29
Conversations with Raymond Carver(1990) - #30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990) - #31
Conversations with Reynolds Price(1991) - #32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud(1991) - #33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991) - #34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992) - #35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder(1992) - #36
Conversations with Robert Coles(1992) - #37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992) - #38
More Conversations with Walker Percy(1993) - #39
Conversations with Richard Wright(1993) - #40
Conversations with Paul Bowles(1993) - #41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994) - #42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka(1994) - #43
Conversations with Toni Morrison(1994) - #44
Conversations with Saul Bellow(1994) - #45
Conversations with Henry Miller(1994) - #46
Conversations with Ernest Gaines(1995) - #47
Conversations with Ralph Ellison(1995) - #48
Conversations with Chester Himes(1995) - #49
Conversations with Susan Sontag(1995) - #50
Conversations with Ishmael Reed(1995) - #51
Conversations with Derek Walcott(1996) - #52
More Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996) - #53
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996) - #54
Conversations with Pauline Kael(1996) - #55
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997) - #56
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997) - #57
Conversations with Chinua Achebe(1997) - #58
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998) - #59
Conversations with Denise Levertov(1998) - #60
Conversations With William Faulkner(1999) - #61
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999) - #62
Conversations With John Fowles(1999) - #63
Conversations with Salman Rushdie(2000) - #64
Conversations with William S. Burroughs(2000) - #65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000) - #66
Conversations with Chaim Potok(2001) - #67
Conversations with Richard Ford(2001) - #68
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001) - #69
Conversations with Mary Gordon(2002) - #70
Conversations with Jim Harrison(2002) - #71
Conversations with Clarence Major(2002) - #72
Conversations with Margaret Walker(2002) - #73
Conversations with Erica Jong(2002) - #74
Elie Wiesel: Conversations(2002) - #75
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003) - #76
Conversations with Rita Dove(2003) - #77
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003) - #78
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003) - #79
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003) - #80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor(2004) - #81
Conversations with Audre Lorde(2004) - #82
Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004) - #83
Conversations With John le Carré(2004) - #84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov(2005) - #85
Conversations with Don DeLillo(2005) - #86
Conversations with Gore Vidal(2005) - #87
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005) - #88
Conversations with Jack Kerouac(2005) - #89
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005) - #90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane(2006) - #91
Conversations with Larry Brown(2007) - #92
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007) - #93
Conversations with Wendell Berry(2007) - #94
Conversations with Leon Forrest(2007) - #95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1
Mindfulness at Work(2025)
- #1
Notes of a Native Son(1955) - #2Nobody Knows My Name(1961)
- #3
Nothing Personal(1964) - #4
Black Anti Semitism And Jewish Racism(1969) - #5
Harlem, U.S.A.(1971) - #6A Rap on Race(1971)
- #7No Name in the Street(1972)
- #8
A Dialogue(1973) - #9
The Devil Finds Work(1976) - #10
The Price of the Ticket(1985) - #11The Evidence of Things Not Seen(1985)
- #12
The Fights: Photographs (With: A.J. Liebling,Jimmy Cannon,Charles Hoff,Richard B. Woodward)(1996) - #13
Baldwin: Collected Essays(1998) - #14
Native Sons (With: Sol Stein)(2004) - #15
The Cross of Redemption(2011) - #16
I Am Not Your Negro (With: Raoul Peck)(2017) - #17
Everybody's Protest Novel(2024) - #18
Encounter on the Seine: Essays(2024) - #19
The Amen Corner(1954) - #20Blues for Mister Charlie(1961)
- #21One Day When I Was Lost(1969)
- #22
Sonny's Blues(1957) - #23Going to Meet the Man(1965)
- #24
Jimmy's Blues(1968) - #25
James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories(1998) - #26Fifty Famous People(2003)
- #27
Vintage Baldwin(2004)
- #1Go Tell It on the Mountain(1952)
- #2
Giovanni's Room(1956) - #3
Another Country(1962) - #4
The Fire Next Time(1963) - #5Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone(1968)
- #6
If Beale Street Could Talk(1974) - #7
Little Man, Little Man(1976) - #8
Just Above My Head(1978) - #9Robinson Crusoe: Written Anew for Children(2024)
- #1
Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)(2005) - #2
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)(2009) - #3
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)(2011) - #4
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)(2012) - #5
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)(2013) - #6
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace)(2014) - #7
James Baldwin (With: Quincy Troupe)(2014) - #8
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller)(2014) - #9
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)(2015) - #10
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)(2015) - #11
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)(2015) - #12
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)(2015) - #13
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)(2015) - #14
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)(2016) - #15
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)(2016) - #16
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)(2016) - #17
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)(2016) - #18
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)(2017) - #19
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2017) - #20
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)(2018) - #21
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)(2018) - #22
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)(2018) - #23
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)(2019) - #24
Prince (By: Prince)(2019) - #25
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)(2019) - #26
Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House,Helen Rosner)(2019) - #27
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)(2019) - #28
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)(2020) - #29
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)(2020) - #30
Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House,Sady Doyle)(2020) - #31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House)(2020) - #32
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)(2021) - #33
The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers)(2021) - #34
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)(2021) - #35
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)(2021) - #36
John Lewis (By: Melville House)(2021) - #37
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)(2022) - #38
Diego Maradona (By: Melville House)(2022) - #39
Kurt Cobain (By: Melville House)(2022) - #40
Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks)(2023) - #41
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)(2023)
- #1
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (By: The New Yorker)(2014) - #2
The 50s: The Story of a Decade (By: The New Yorker,Henry Finder)(2015) - #3
The 60s: The Story of a Decade(2016)
About James Baldwin
James Baldwin is a renowned American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. He offers a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. Born to a family of nine children, Baldwin's stepfather was a minister who played a significant influence on his early life. At 14, he began serving as a preacher at the Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem, but eventually shifted his devotion from faith to literature. Critics note that the impassioned cadences of Black churches still resonate in his writing. His notable works include the partially autobiographical novel <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i>, as well as influential essay collections such as <i>Notes of a Native Son</i>, <i>Nobody Knows My Name</i>, and <i>The Fire Next Time</i>.
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