E. Lynn Harris Reading Order

4 books (1996–2019)

E. Lynn Harris edited four nonfiction anthologies between 1996 and 2019, with the series now complete. These collections feature essays and reflections from Black men addressing topics ranging from personal identity and sexuality to justice systems and social experience. Read the books in publication order, beginning with Go the Way Your Blood Beats and continuing through Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life, Black Satin, and Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World.

Start with Go the Way Your Blood Beats, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Go the Way Your Blood Beats 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Black Satin 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2010–2010)

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1	In My Father's House 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1991–1999)

E. Lynn Harris's Invisible Life trilogy spans from 1991 to 1999 and consists of three complete novels that should be read in publication order. The series begins with Invisible Life, followed by Just As I Am and concludes with Abide With Me. These interconnected works explore themes of identity, relationships, and personal truth within African American communities.

Start with Invisible Life and read in order.

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1	Invisible Life 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Just As I Am 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Abide With Me 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1992–2004)

E. Lynn Harris's complete non-fiction series comprises three books published between 1992 and 2004. The Mystic Spirituality of A.W. Tozer, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, and Freedom in this Village Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing should be read in publication order. This series is now complete with no additional volumes planned.

Start with The Mystic Spirituality of A.W. Tozer and read in order.

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1	The Mystic Spirituality of A.W. Tozer 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Freedom in this Village Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2000–2000)

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1	Got to be Real 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1996–2011)

E. Lynn Harris's seven standalone novels were published between 1996 and 2011 and should be read in publication order, beginning with And This Too Shall Pass. The series is now complete and includes If This World Were Mine, A Love of My Own, I Say a Little Prayer, Just Too Good to Be True, Basketball Jones, and No One in the World. While each novel stands alone as an independent story, reading them in the order they were released provides the fullest experience of Harris's evolving narrative voice and thematic explorations.

Start with And This Too Shall Pass, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	And This Too Shall Pass 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	If This World Were Mine 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Love of My Own 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	I Say a Little Prayer 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Just Too Good to Be True 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Basketball Jones 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	No One in the World 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1998–2008)

The Yancey Harrington Braxton series consists of three complete books published between 1998 and 2008 by E. Lynn Harris. This series should be read in publication order, beginning with Any Way the Wind Blows, followed by Not a Day Goes By, and concluding with Mama Dearest. The series is now complete with no additional volumes planned.

Start with Any Way the Wind Blows and read in order.

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1	Any Way the Wind Blows 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Not a Day Goes By 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mama Dearest 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible