Booker T. Washington Books in Order: All 25 books (1899

How many Booker T. Washington books are there?

Booker T. Washington has 25 books, released between 1899 and 2013. 14 of them were published after Booker T. Washington's death in 1915. 13 of them belong to the Booker T. Washington Papers series.

Booker T. Washington Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 25 Booker T. Washington 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 November 2026.

Cover of The Negro Problem by Booker T. Washington (1903)

Cover of Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 2: 1860-89 by Booker T. Washington (1972)

Booker T. Washington 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.

Booker T. Washington Papers in order

13 books

1. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 1: The Autobiographical Writings
2. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 2: 1860-89
3. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 3: 1889-95
4. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 4: 1895-98
5. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 5: 1899-1900
6. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 6: 1901-2
7. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 7: 1903-4
8. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 8: 1904-6
9. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 9: 1906-8
10. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 10: 1909-11
11. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 11: 1911-12
12. Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 12: 1912-14
and 1 more in the table above

Standalone books

12 books

12 Booker T. Washington titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Booker T. Washington books in order?

You only need to read Booker T. Washington books in order within the Booker T. Washington Papers series, which holds 13 of the 25 Booker T. Washington books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Booker T. Washington

Start with The Future of the American Negro (1899), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Booker T. Washington book?

Works of Booker T. Washington (2013) is the newest Booker T. Washington book released so far.

Is there a new Booker T. Washington book coming?

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

Booker T. Washington at a glance

Died: Booker T. Washington died in 1915, according to Wikidata.
After death: Books credited to Booker T. Washington are still being published after Booker T. Washington's death in 1915; the newest appeared in 2013.
Release pace: Booker T. Washington books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length: 6,285 pages across the 11 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 623 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Booker T. Washington books, 8 of 25, were published in the 1970s.

When Booker T. Washington books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Booker T. Washington titles appeared. 1900s was the most productive decade with 8 titles.

1890s

1

1900s

8

1910s

2

1970s

8

1980s

5

2010s

1

25 books total across 6 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

What the Booker T. Washington books are about

15 of the 25 Booker T. Washington books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: washington, booker t., 1856-1915 is tagged on 8 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Washington, booker t., 1856-1915 8 of 15 books
African Americans 5 of 15 books
Correspondence 5 of 15 books
History 5 of 15 books
Sources 5 of 15 books
Biography 3 of 15 books
Black studies 3 of 15 books
Population & demography 3 of 15 books
Afro-Americans 2 of 15 books
Education 2 of 15 books