🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Richard Wright
Richard Wright was a renowned American writer of novels, poems, nonfiction, and short stories. He has penned a number of notable works in his career, including Native Son, The Outsider, Uncle Tom’s Children, Black Boy, and others. Most of Wright’s literature was based on racial themes and especially revolved around the plight of Afro-Americans towards the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Wright showed in his books how the African-Americans suffered violence and discrimination in the North and the South. Many literary critics believe that Wright’s work helped to change race relations in America during the mid-20th century. Wright is regarded as one of the prominent names in the literature of the United States.
All Book Series by Richard Wright
The Man Who Lived Underground
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2021
You Can't Go Home Again
Series opener · book 1 of 29 · published 1940 Anthology · Thomas Wolfe
The Religions of Man / The World's Religions
Book 3 of 29 · published 1958 Anthology · Huston Smith
Great Short Works Of Jack London
Book 7 of 29 · published 1965 Anthology · Jack London
The Wrong Venus / Don't Just Stand There
Book 8 of 29 · published 1966 Anthology · Charles Williams
The Ecological Citizen
Book 9 of 29 · published 1971 Anthology · Dirck Van Sickle
R. D. Laing & Anti-psychiatry
Book 10 of 29 · published 1971 Anthology · Robert Boyers
Abortion, Baseball & Weed
Book 12 of 29 · published 1973 Anthology · Roger LeRoy Miller,Douglass C. North
Great Presidential Decisions
Book 13 of 29 · published 1973 Anthology · Richard B. Morris
They Came Here First
Book 14 of 29 · published 1975 Anthology · D'Arcy McNickle
The Gestalt Therapy Primer
Book 15 of 29 · published 1976 Anthology · Daniel Rosenblatt
Your Life Is A Mess: And What To Do About It
Book 16 of 29 · published 1976 Anthology · Daniel Rosenblatt
Dick Gregory's Bible Tales
Book 18 of 29 · published 1978 Anthology · Dick Gregory
East And West
Book 20 of 29 · published 1980 Anthology · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
Book 21 of 29 · published 1980 Anthology · C.W. Grafton
The Other Side Of Silence
Book 22 of 29 · published 1981 Anthology · Ted Allbeury
An Unsuitable Attachment
Book 24 of 29 · published 1982 Anthology · Barbara Pym
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Book 26 of 29 · published 1985 Anthology · Harriet Lerner
Chronology Of Boston Red Sox Records
Book 27 of 29 · published 1989 Anthology · John A. Mercurio
Scarne's Encyclopedia Of Card Games
Latest in the series · book 29 of 29 · published 1994 Anthology · John Scarne
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers
Series opener · book 1 of 10 · published 1967
Ask: Building Consent Culture
Latest in the series · book 10 of 10 · published 2017
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Richard Wright?
Richard Wright was a renowned American writer of novels, poems, nonfiction, and short stories. He has penned a number of notable works in his career, including Native Son, The Outsider, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Boy, and others. Most of Wright's literature was based on racial themes and especially revolved around the plight of Afro-Americans towards the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Which Richard Wright series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Perennial Library series, the earliest of Richard Wright's multi-book series: it opens with You Can't Go Home Again (1940) and runs to 29 books across 1940–1994, ending with Scarne's Encyclopedia Of Card Games (1994).
How many books has Richard Wright written?
Richard Wright has 176 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1938 and 2025. 150 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Perennial Library series with 29 books — and 26 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Richard Wright's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Richard Wright's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Perennial Library (1940–1994, 29 books).
How are Richard Wright's books organised into series?
This guide splits Richard Wright's 176 books into 2 named series and 26 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Perennial Library (29 books, 1940–1994); Akashic Noir (121 books, 2002–2025).