Wahida Clark Books in Order
Wahida Clark has written 29 books, published between 2002 and 2023. The first book is Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2002) and the newest is Covid, Mayhem and Murder (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 29
- Published
- 2002–2023
- Pages on record
- 4,339 in 16 of 29 books
- Reading time
- 72–108 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,339 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 29 titles with a page count on record.
Wahida Clark writes urban fiction about African American women, the men in their lives and the criminal economies around both. Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2002) opens the Thug series, followed by Every Thug Needs a Lady, Thug Matrimony and Thug Lovin'. The Payback books, Golden Hustla and Urban Isis follow. Thirty titles make up the catalogue, which ends at Covid, Mayhem and Murder in 2023.
How many Wahida Clark books are there?
Wahida Clark has 29 books, released between 2002 and 2023. They include 4 series and 12 titles listed outside any series.
Wahida Clark Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 29 Wahida Clark 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.
- 120022882/4
- 220032882/4
- 320062402/4
- 420072882/4
- 5Sleeping with the Enemy2008 · 293 pages · confirmed 2/420082932/4
- 620083362/4
- 72009–2/4
- 820103082/4
- 9What's Really Hood!2010 · 318 pages · confirmed 2/420103182/4
- 1020112732/4
- 1120122772/4
- 122013–2/4
- 132014–2/4
- 14Thuggz Valentine2015 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/420151962/4
- 15Sincerely, the Boss!2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 16The Pink Panther Clique2017 · 232 pages · confirmed 2/420172322/4
- 17Butterfly Bitch!2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 182017–2/4
- 19Along Came a Savage2018 · 200 pages · confirmed 2/420182002/4
- 202018–2/4
- 212019–2/4
- 222019–2/4
- 23Street Tales2019 · 266 pages · confirmed 2/420192662/4
- 2420192602/4
- 25Loners2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
- 26Emperors & Assassins2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
- 27The Virus Brought Me My First Love2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 2820222762/4
- 29Covid, Mayhem and Murder2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
Wahida Clark 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.
Thug in order
9 booksPayback in order
4 booksGolden Hustla in order
2 booksUrban Isis in order
2 booksStandalone books
12 books12 Wahida Clark titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Wahida Clark Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Wahida Clark books run from Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2002) to Covid, Mayhem and Murder (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Wahida Clark in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Wahida Clark books in order?
You only need to read Wahida Clark books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Wahida Clark
Start with Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2002), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Wahida Clark book?
Covid, Mayhem and Murder (2023) is the newest Wahida Clark book released so far.
Is there a new Wahida Clark book coming?
No next Wahida Clark book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Wahida Clark at a glance
- Paused
- No new Wahida Clark title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Wahida Clark books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,339 pages across the 16 of 29 books with a recorded length, a median of 276 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Wahida Clark books, 17 of 29, were published in the 2010s.
What the Wahida Clark books are about
18 of the 29 Wahida Clark 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 10 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- African Americans 10 of 18 books
- Romance 6 of 18 books
- African American criminals 5 of 18 books
- African American women 5 of 18 books
- African American romance 3 of 18 books
- African american & black, urban & street lit 2 of 18 books
- Urban fiction 2 of 18 books
- Criminals 2 of 18 books
- Drug traffic 2 of 18 books
- Female friendship 2 of 18 books
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 18 books
- Revenge 2 of 18 books