Enter for a Chance to Win a Collection of Toni Morrison Classics

This Pulitzer Prize-winning “powerful, mesmerizing story” is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery (People). Includes an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. 

And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner comes a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that, with Morrison’s characteristic subtlety and grace, asks questions about race, class, and gender. 

Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. 

This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment, featuring a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years, this repackaged edition includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones.

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. 

As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.

A ravishingly beautiful, emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner, offering “arresting images, fierce intelligence, [and] poetic language” (The Washington Post).

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. 

As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.

A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, set in an America born of slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women, featuring a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. 

Growing up, they forge a bond stronger than anything, even stronger than the dark secret they must bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.