Adam Bradley Books in Order
Adam Bradley has written 10 books, published between 2008 and 2020. The first book is Book of Rhymes (2008) and the newest is Seeking Love & Death (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2008–2020
- Pages on record
- 2,497 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 42–62 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,497 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Adam Bradley, born Adam Francis Bradley on 31 July 1974, is an American literary critic, professor and popular culture writer. Bradley teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles and directs the UCLA Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture, known as the RAP Lab. Bradley has written at length on song lyrics and on the work and legacy of the novelist Ralph Ellison, with commentary in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Catalogued books include Book of Rhymes (2008), Ralph Ellison in Progress (2010), The Anthology of Rap (2010) and The Poetry of Pop (2017).
How many Adam Bradley books are there?
Adam Bradley has 10 books, released between 2008 and 2020. 3 of them belong to the Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction series.
Adam Bradley Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Adam Bradley books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Book of Rhymes2008 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/420082481/4
- 220102561/4
- 3The Anthology of Rap2010 · 867 pages · confirmed 1/420108671/4
- 420121621/4
- 5Barbells for Your Brain2014 · 444 pages · confirmed 1/420144441/4
- 62014–1/4
- 72016–1/4
- 8Kodi2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 9The Poetry of Pop2017 · 424 pages · confirmed 1/420174241/4
- 10Seeking Love & Death2020 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/42020961/4
Adam Bradley books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction in order
3 booksMemoirs in order
1 bookStandalone books
6 books6 Adam Bradley titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Adam Bradley books in order?
You only need to read Adam Bradley books in order within the Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction series, which holds 3 of the 10 Adam Bradley books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Adam Bradley
Start with Book of Rhymes (2008), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Adam Bradley book?
Seeking Love & Death (2020) is the newest Adam Bradley book released so far.
Is there a new Adam Bradley book coming?
No next Adam Bradley book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Adam Bradley at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Adam Bradley title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Adam Bradley books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,497 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Adam Bradley books, 8 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Adam Bradley books are about
4 of the 10 Adam Bradley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history and criticism is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History and criticism 3 of 4 books
- Texts 3 of 4 books
- Rap (Music) 2 of 4 books
- African American authors 1 of 4 books
- Americans 1 of 4 books
- Poetry 1 of 4 books
- Historia 1 of 4 books
- Invisible man 1 of 4 books
- Invisible man (Ellison, Ralph) 1 of 4 books
- LITERARY CRITICISM 1 of 4 books
- Manuscripts 1 of 4 books
- Music 1 of 4 books