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Wayetu Moore Books in Order

Wayetu Moore has written 9 books, published between 2010 and 2020. The first book is 1 Peking (2010) and the newest is The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
2010–2020
Pages on record
702 in 5 of 9 books
Reading time
12–18 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 702 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Wayetu Moore, author

Wayétu Moore, born in 1985, is a Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur. Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly and BuzzFeed each named the debut novel She Would Be King, issued by Graywolf Press in September 2018, among the best books of that year, and Time, The New York Times and The New Yorker reviewed it positively. Moore has published work in The Paris Review, Guernica Magazine and The Atlantic, and took a Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction in 2019. Nine books are catalogued, including 1 Peking (2010), A Gift for Yole, I Love Liberia, J is for Jollof Rice and My Little Musu (2011), and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (2020).

How many Wayetu Moore books are there?

Wayetu Moore has 9 books, released between 2010 and 2020.

Wayetu Moore Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Wayetu Moore 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 1 Peking by Wayetu Moore (2010)
  2. Cover of A Gift for Yole by Wayetu Moore (2011)
  3. Cover of Jamonghoie by Wayetu Moore (2011)
  4. Cover of She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore (2018)
  5. Cover of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore (2020)
  1. 1
    1 Peking2010 · 46 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201046
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  2. 2
    J is for Jollof Rice2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    My Little Musu2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    A Gift for Yole2011 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201132
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    I Love Liberia2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Jamonghoie2011 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201140
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Kukujumuku2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    She Would Be King2018 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018312
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    The Dragons, the Giant, the Women2020 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Wayetu Moore 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 Wayetu Moore titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Wayetu Moore books in order?

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

Where to start with Wayetu Moore

Start with 1 Peking (2010), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Wayetu Moore book?

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women (2020) is the newest Wayetu Moore book released so far.

Is there a new Wayetu Moore book coming?

No next Wayetu Moore 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 Wayetu Moore has won

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

  • William Saroyan International Prize for Writing2022Won

Wayetu Moore at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Wayetu Moore title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Wayetu Moore books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
702 pages across the 5 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 46 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Wayetu Moore books, 8 of 9, were published in the 2010s.

What the Wayetu Moore books are about

5 of the 9 Wayetu Moore books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.