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Randall Kenan Books in Order

9 books are credited to Randall Kenan, published between 1989 and 2022; 1 of them appeared after Randall Kenan's death in 2020. The first book is A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and the newest is Black Folk Could Fly (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1989–2022
Pages on record
2,095 in 8 of 9 books
Reading time
35–52 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,095 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

See all 9 books in order Printable Randall Kenan checklist

Randall Kenan (12 March 1963 to 28 August 2020) was an American author. The novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989), the story collection Let The Dead Bury Their Dead And Other Stories (1992) and The Fire This Time (2008) are the works Kenan is best known for, and the story collection was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. Kenan received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award and the John Dos Passos Prize. Nine books are catalogued, including James Baldwin (1993), A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (1997), If I Had Two Wings (2020) and Black Folk Could Fly (2022). Catalogue subjects record African American authors, gay men, race relations and social conditions.

How many Randall Kenan books are there?

Randall Kenan has 9 books, released between 1989 and 2022. 1 of them were published after Randall Kenan's death in 2020.

Randall Kenan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Randall Kenan 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 A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan (1989)
  2. Cover of Let The Dead Bury Their Dead And Other Stories by Randall Kenan (1992)
  3. Cover of James Baldwin by Randall Kenan (1993)
  4. Cover of A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta by Randall Kenan (1997)
  5. Cover of Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century by Randall Kenan (1999)
  6. Cover of Racing Home by Randall Kenan (2001)
  7. Cover of The Fire This Time by Randall Kenan (2008)
  8. Cover of If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan (2020)
  9. Cover of Black Folk Could Fly by Randall Kenan (2022)
  1. 1
    A Visitation of Spirits1989 · 257 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989257
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  2. 3
    James Baldwin1993 · 149 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993149
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  3. 4
    A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta1997 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199796
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  4. 5
    Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century1999 · 670 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999670
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  5. 6
    Racing Home2001 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001216
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  6. 7
    The Fire This Time2008 · 149 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008149
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  7. 8
    If I Had Two Wings2020 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020224
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  8. 9
    Black Folk Could Fly2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Randall Kenan 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

9 books

9 Randall Kenan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Randall Kenan books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 9 Randall Kenan books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Randall Kenan

Start with A Visitation of Spirits (1989), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Randall Kenan book?

Black Folk Could Fly (2022) is the newest Randall Kenan book released so far.

Is there a new Randall Kenan book coming?

No next Randall Kenan 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 Randall Kenan has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Randall Kenan. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • North Carolina Award for Literature2005Won
  • Lambda Literary Award1992Won

Randall Kenan at a glance

Died
Randall Kenan died in 2020, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Randall Kenan are still being published after Randall Kenan's death in 2020; the newest appeared in 2022.
Release pace
Randall Kenan books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,095 pages across the 8 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 220 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Randall Kenan books, 4 of 9, were published in the 1990s.

What the Randall Kenan books are about

8 of the 9 Randall Kenan 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 6 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.