Terry McMillan Books in Order

How many Terry McMillan books are there?

Terry McMillan has 12 books, released between 1987 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Waiting To Exhale series.

Terry McMillan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Terry McMillan 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.

Terry McMillan 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.

Terry McMillan Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Terry McMillan books run from Mama (1987) to It Was the Way She Said It (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Terry McMillan in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Terry McMillan books in order?

You only need to read Terry McMillan books in order within the Waiting To Exhale series, which holds 2 of the 12 Terry McMillan books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Terry McMillan

Start with Mama (1987), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Terry McMillan book?

It Was the Way She Said It (2025) is the newest Terry McMillan book released so far.

Is there a new Terry McMillan book coming?

No next Terry McMillan 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 Terry McMillan has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Terry McMillan. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• American Book Awards1987Won

Terry McMillan at a glance

Still publishing

Terry McMillan published a book as recently as 2025.

Release pace

Terry McMillan books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.

Length

4,267 pages across the 11 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Terry McMillan books, 3 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Terry McMillan books are about

11 of the 12 Terry McMillan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: african american women is tagged on 7 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• African American women 7 of 11 books
• African Americans 5 of 11 books
• Family life 3 of 11 books
• Female friendship 3 of 11 books
• Friendship 3 of 11 books
• African american & black, women 2 of 11 books
• African American families 2 of 11 books
• African American men 2 of 11 books