Lawrence Hill Books in Order
Lawrence Hill has written 10 books, published between 1992 and 2015. The first book is Some Great Thing (1992) and the newest is The Illegal (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1992–2015
- Pages on record
- 2,061 in 8 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 34–52 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,061 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist, born January 24, 1957. The Book of Negroes (2007), also listed as Someone Knows My Name, draws on the Black Loyalists whom the British freed and resettled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War; a TV mini-series adaptation was produced in 2015. Black Berry, Sweet Juice (2001) is a memoir about being Black and white in Canada. Hill gave the 2013 Massey Lectures, drawing on the nonfiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. Catalogued titles run from Some Great Thing (1992) to The Illegal (2015).
How many Lawrence Hill books are there?
Lawrence Hill has 10 books, released between 1992 and 2015.
Lawrence Hill Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Lawrence Hill 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.
- 1Some Great Thing1992 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/419922402/4
- 2Trials and Triumphs1993 · confirmed 2/41993–2/4
- 3Women of Vision1996 · 95 pages · confirmed 2/41996952/4
- 4Any Known Blood1997 · 528 pages · confirmed 2/419975282/4
- 5Black Berry, Sweet Juice2001 · 245 pages · confirmed 2/420012452/4
- 6The Book of Negroes / Someone Knows My Name2007 · confirmed 2/42007–2/4
- 7The Deserter's Tale2007 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420072562/4
- 8Blood2012 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/420122722/4
- 9Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book2013 · 33 pages · confirmed 2/42013332/4
- 10The Illegal2015 · 392 pages · confirmed 2/420153922/4
Lawrence Hill 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.
Standalone books
10 books10 Lawrence Hill titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Lawrence Hill books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Lawrence Hill books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Lawrence Hill
Start with Some Great Thing (1992), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Lawrence Hill book?
The Illegal (2015) is the newest Lawrence Hill book released so far.
Is there a new Lawrence Hill book coming?
No next Lawrence Hill 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 Lawrence Hill has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Lawrence Hill. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2007Wonfor The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Lawrence Hill title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Lawrence Hill books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,061 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 250 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Lawrence Hill books, 4 of 10, were published in the 1990s.
What the Lawrence Hill books are about
7 of the 10 Lawrence Hill books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 2 of 7 books