Author · updated 2026
Jacqueline Woodson Books in Order
Every Jacqueline Woodson book in publication order — 42 in total, spanning 1990–2020.
Publication Order of Ghostwriter Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Book Chase | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of If You Come Softly Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  If You Come Softly | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Behind You | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Lena | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Locomotion Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Locomotion | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Peace, Locomotion | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Maizon Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Last Summer with Maizon | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Maizon at Blue Hill | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Between Madison and Palmetto | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of The One Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before Her | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Dear One | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Autobiography of a Family Photo | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The House You Pass on the Way | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Hush | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Miracle's Boys | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Feathers | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  After Tupac and D Foster | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Beneath a Meth Moon | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Brown Girl Dreaming | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Another Brooklyn | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Harbor Me | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Red at the Bone | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  Before the Ever After | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  No Such Thing as the Real World | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Sweet, Sweet Memory | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Visiting Day | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Other Side | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Our Gracie Aunt | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Coming On Home Soon | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Miss Grace's House | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Show Way | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Pecan Pie Baby | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Each Kindness | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  This Is the Rope | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  The Day You Begin | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Ghostwriter Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  WRITE NOW! | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Way Out of No Way | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Places I Never Meant To Be | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 42, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last Summer with Maizon | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Dear One | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Maizon at Blue Hill | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Between Madison and Palmetto | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Book Chase | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | WRITE NOW! | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Autobiography of a Family Photo | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | A Way Out of No Way | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The House You Pass on the Way | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | If You Come Softly | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Lena | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Places I Never Meant To Be | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Hush | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Miracle's Boys | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Sweet, Sweet Memory | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Visiting Day | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Other Side | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Our Gracie Aunt | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Locomotion | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Behind You | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Coming On Home Soon | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Miss Grace's House | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Show Way | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Feathers | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | After Tupac and D Foster | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | No Such Thing as the Real World | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Peace, Locomotion | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Pecan Pie Baby | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Beneath a Meth Moon | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Each Kindness | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | This Is the Rope | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | Brown Girl Dreaming | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Another Brooklyn | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Harbor Me | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | The Day You Begin | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | Before Her | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Red at the Bone | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Before the Ever After | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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