Sweet Potato Queens Books in Order

Sweet Potato Queens by Jill Conner Browne contains 10 books, published between 1999 and 2012. The first book is The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love (1999) and the newest is Fat Is the New 30 (2012). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1999–2012
Pages on record
1,678 in 7 of 10 books
Reading time
28–42 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,678 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

The Sweet Potato Queens is a humour series by Jill Conner Browne, written mostly as non-fiction, with a cookbook and a novel among the ten catalogued titles. The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love (1999) opens the run, followed by The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Life (2001), God Save the Sweet Potato Queens (2001), The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (2003) and The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men (2004). American wit, men and women, and cooking are the recorded subjects, and Fat Is the New 30 (2012) closes the run.

How many Sweet Potato Queens books are there?

Sweet Potato Queens has 10 books, released between 1999 and 2012.

Sweet Potato Queens Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Sweet Potato Queens 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. 1
    The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love1999 · 213 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999213
  2. 22001
  3. 3
    God Save the Sweet Potato Queens2001 · 261 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001261
  4. 4
    The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook2003 · 267 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003267
  5. 5
    The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men2004 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004241
  6. 62005138
  7. 72007304
  8. 82007
  9. 9
    American Thighs2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008
  10. 10
    Fat Is the New 302012 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012254

Is there a chronological order for Sweet Potato Queens?

No separate chronological order is on record for Sweet Potato Queens, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Sweet Potato Queens books in order?

You should read the Sweet Potato Queens books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Sweet Potato Queens book also stands alone.

Where to start with Sweet Potato Queens

Start with The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sweet Potato Queens book?

Fat Is the New 30 (2012) is the newest Sweet Potato Queens book released so far.

Is there a new Sweet Potato Queens book coming?

No next Sweet Potato Queens book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Sweet Potato Queens at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Sweet Potato Queens title on record dates from 2012, 14 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Sweet Potato Queens books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,678 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 254 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sweet Potato Queens books, 8 of 10, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sweet Potato Queens books are about

9 of the 10 Sweet Potato Queens books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 6 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Humor 6 of 9 books
  • Humor (Nonfiction) 5 of 9 books
  • Nonfiction 5 of 9 books
  • Biography 2 of 9 books
  • Essays 2 of 9 books
  • Humor, topic, men, women & relationships 2 of 9 books

More books by Jill Conner Browne

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.