Nikki Turner

Nikki Turner is one of the well known authors from America who likes to write her books and novels based on the urban fiction genre. Because of her immense success and popularity in this genre, the Trendsetter Magazine has dubbed her as the 'Queen of the Hip Hop Lit'. The initial couple of books written by author Turner had sold more than 150,000 printed copies all over the world till 2005.

The best place to start is the A Hustler's Wife series, the earliest of Nikki Turner's multi-book series: it opens with A Hustler's Wife (2003) and runs to 3 books across 2003–2011, ending with Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife (2011). Nikki Turner's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Nikki Turner has 72 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2003 and 2025. 59 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Carl Weber's Kingpin series with 22 books — and 13 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Nikki Turner's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are A Hustler's Wife (2003–2011, 3 books), Project Chick (2003–2013, 2 books) and Girls From Da Hood (2005–2020, 14 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits Nikki Turner's 72 books into 9 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Carl Weber's Kingpin (22 books, 2015–2025); Girls From Da Hood (14 books, 2005–2020); G-Unit (8 books, 2007–2008); Unique (4 books, 2012–2014); The Banks Sisters (3 books, 2015–2017), plus 4 further series.