Hanif Abdurraqib Books in Order
Hanif Abdurraqib has written 8 books, published between 2017 and 2024. The first book is They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017) and the newest is There's Always This Year (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2017–2024
- Pages on record
- 1,193 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 20–30 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,193 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Hanif Abdurraqib, born 1983, is an American poet, essayist and cultural critic. The essay collection They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017) opens a catalogue of 8 books that reaches There's Always This Year in 2024. A Little Devil in America took the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and Abdurraqib received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021. The poetry includes The Crown Ain't Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster. Subjects record music, African American intellectual life and race relations in the United States, filed under essays and literary collections.
How many Hanif Abdurraqib books are there?
Hanif Abdurraqib has 8 books, released between 2017 and 2024.
Hanif Abdurraqib Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Hanif Abdurraqib 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.
- 120172851/4
- 2A Fortune for Your Disaster2019 · 108 pages · confirmed 1/420191081/4
- 320192161/4
- 42020–1/4
- 5A Little Devil in America2021 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420212241/4
- 6Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement2021 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/42021401/4
- 720213201/4
- 8There's Always This Year2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Hanif Abdurraqib 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.
Memoirs in order
3 booksStandalone books
4 books4 Hanif Abdurraqib titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Hanif Abdurraqib books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Hanif Abdurraqib books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Hanif Abdurraqib
Start with They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Hanif Abdurraqib book?
There's Always This Year (2024) is the newest Hanif Abdurraqib book released so far.
Is there a new Hanif Abdurraqib book coming?
No next Hanif Abdurraqib book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Hanif Abdurraqib at a glance
- Still publishing
- Hanif Abdurraqib published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Hanif Abdurraqib books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,193 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 220 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Hanif Abdurraqib books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Hanif Abdurraqib books are about
7 of the 8 Hanif Abdurraqib books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: music is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Music 4 of 7 books
- African americans, social conditions 3 of 7 books
- African americans in the performing arts 2 of 7 books
- African americans, intellectual life 2 of 7 books
- African americans, race identity 2 of 7 books
- United states, race relations 2 of 7 books