Author guide
Zora Neale Hurston Books in Order
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an American writer and anthropologist whose fiction, folklore collections, essays, plays, and memoirs drew deeply on Black Southern and Caribbean cultural life. Her major works combine literary experimentation with ethnographic attention to language, storytelling, religion, and community.
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Zora Neale Hurston's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The canonical and most widely taught entry point to Hurston's fiction.
Mules and Men
The strongest starting point for her folklore, ethnographic, and vernacular writing.
Read in order
Books by series
novel-series · unfinished
Moses and Herod
A connected sequence of historical novels reimagining biblical figures through Hurston's distinctive blend of biblical narrative, folklore, and historical fiction.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (6)
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Jonah's Gourd VineAmazon ↗novel · 1934
- Their Eyes Were Watching GodAmazon ↗
novel · 1937
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and JamaicaAmazon ↗nonfiction · 1938
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Seraph on the SuwaneeAmazon ↗novel · 1948
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Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' ProjectAmazon ↗nonfiction-collection · 1999
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"Amazon ↗nonfiction · 2018
Nonfiction (1)
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An AutobiographyAmazon ↗memoir · 1942
Short fiction (1)
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem RenaissanceAmazon ↗short-story-collection · 2020
Essays and speeches (2)
Plays (1)
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro LifeAmazon ↗play · 1991
