Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Books in Order
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has written 8 books, published between 2000 and 2025. The first book is The Gospel of Barbecue (2000) and the newest is Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2000–2025
- Pages on record
- 979 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 16–24 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 979 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.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, born in 1967, is an American poet and novelist and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Five poetry collections and one novel stand to the name. The Age of Phillis (2020) reexamines the life of the poet Phillis Wheatley; it was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and took the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in poetry. The first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, was published by HarperCollins in 2021. Eight books span 2000 to 2025, from The Gospel of Barbecue to Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.
How many Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books are there?
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has 8 books, released between 2000 and 2025.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 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.
- 1The Gospel of Barbecue2000 · 76 pages · confirmed 1/42000761/4
- 2Outlandish Blues2003 · 50 pages · confirmed 1/42003501/4
- 3Red Clay Suite2007 · 73 pages · confirmed 1/42007731/4
- 42011–1/4
- 5The Glory Gets2015 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/42015841/4
- 6The Age of Phillis2020 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/420202321/4
- 7The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois2021 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/420214641/4
- 8Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 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.
African Poetry Book in order
1 bookStandalone books
7 books7 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Start with The Gospel of Barbecue (2000), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Honorée Fanonne Jeffers book?
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (2025) is the newest Honorée Fanonne Jeffers book released so far.
Is there a new Honorée Fanonne Jeffers book coming?
No next Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 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 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction2021Wonfor The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers at a glance
- Still publishing
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 979 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 80 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books, 3 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books are about
6 of the 8 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: poetry is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Poetry 4 of 6 books
- African Americans 3 of 6 books
- American literature 2 of 6 books
- History 2 of 6 books