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bell hooks Books in Order

39 books are credited to bell hooks, published between 1978 and 2023; 1 of them appeared after bell hooks's death in 2021. The first book is and there we wept (1978) and the newest is Bell Hooks (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

bell hooks is the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins.

Books
39
Published
1978–2023
Confirmed
1 of 39 titles
Pages on record
475 in 3 of 39 books
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Photo of bell hooks, author of the Love Trilogy

bell hooks was the lowercase pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 to December 15, 2021), an American philosopher, educator, author and social critic. hooks held the post of Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. The writing examines race, feminism, capitalism and class, and how their intersections sustain oppression, and it laid groundwork for the modern idea of intersectionality. Catalogued titles include Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) and Teaching to Transgress (1994), and the Love Trilogy is also listed.

How many bell hooks books are there?

bell hooks has 39 books, released between 1978 and 2023. 1 of them were published after bell hooks's death in 2021. 3 of them belong to the Love Trilogy series.

bell hooks Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 39 bell hooks 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.

  1. Cover of Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks (1996)
  2. Cover of Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks (1997)
  3. Cover of Happy to Be Nappy by bell hooks (1999)
  4. Cover of Homemade Love by bell hooks (2002)
  5. Cover of Be Boy Buzz by bell hooks (2002)
  1. 1
    and there we wept1978 · confirmed 1/4
    1978–
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  2. 2
    Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism1981 · confirmed 1/4
    1981–
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  3. 3
    Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  4. 4
    Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black1989 · confirmed 1/4
    1989–
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  5. 5
    Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics1990 · confirmed 1/4
    1990–
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  6. 6
    Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  7. 7
    Black Looks: Race and Representation1992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  8. 8
    Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery1993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  9. 9
    Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  10. 10
    Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  11. 11
    Killing Rage: Ending Racism1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  12. 12
    Art on My Mind: Visual Politics1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  13. 13
    Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood1996 · 183 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996183
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  14. 14
    Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996–
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  15. 15
    Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life1997 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997260
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  16. 16
    All About Love: New VisionsLove Trilogy #11999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  17. 17
    Happy to Be Nappy1999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  18. 18
    remembered rapture: the writer at work1999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  19. 19
    Where We Stand: Class Matters2000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  20. 20
    Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics2000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  21. 21
    Salvation: Black People and LoveLove Trilogy #22001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  22. 22
    Homemade Love2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  23. 23
    Be Boy Buzz2002 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200232
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  24. 24
    Communion: The Female Search for LoveLove Trilogy #32002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  25. 25
    Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  26. 26
    Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem2002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  27. 27
    We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity2003 · confirmed 1/4
    2003–
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  28. 28
    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love2003 · confirmed 1/4
    2003–
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  29. 29
    Skin Again2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  30. 30
    Belonging: A Culture of Place2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  31. 31
    When Angels Speak of Love2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  32. 32
    Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  33. 33
    Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, And Fulfillment2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  34. 34
    Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  35. 35
    Grump Groan Growl2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  36. 36
    Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  37. 37
    Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  38. 38
    Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  39. 39
    Bell HooksLast Interview #402023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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bell hooks 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.

Love Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. All About Love: New Visions
  2. 2. Salvation: Black People and Love
  3. 3. Communion: The Female Search for Love

Last Interview in order

1 book
  1. 40. Bell Hooks

Standalone books

35 books

35 bell hooks titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read bell hooks books in order?

You only need to read bell hooks books in order within the Love Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 39 bell hooks books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with bell hooks

Start with and there we wept (1978), the earliest published title.

What is the newest bell hooks book?

Bell Hooks (2023) is the newest bell hooks book released so far.

Is there a new bell hooks book coming?

No next bell hooks book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards bell hooks has won

Wikidata records 1 award for bell hooks. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • American Book Awards1991Won

bell hooks at a glance

Died
bell hooks died in 2021, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to bell hooks are still being published after bell hooks's death in 2021; the newest appeared in 2023.
Release pace
bell hooks books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
475 pages across the 3 of 39 books with a recorded length, a median of 183 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most bell hooks books, 17 of 39, were published in the 2000s.

What the bell hooks books are about

5 of the 39 bell hooks books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: african americans is tagged on 4 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.