books in order

Gloria Naylor Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Women of Brewster Place (1982)
  2. Linden Hills (1985)
  3. Mama Day (1988)
  4. Bailey’s Cafe (1992)
  5. The Men of Brewster Place (1998)
  6. 1996 (2005)

Anthologies edited

  1. Children of the Night (1996)

Novels Book Covers

Anthologies edited Book Covers

Gloria Naylor Books Overview

The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place are ‘hard edged, soft centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased’. In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November 1988, ABC TV, three hour movie, starring Oprah Winfrey.

Linden Hills

Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author’s other novels include ‘The Women of Brewster Place’.

Mama Day

Miranda Day, known as Mama Day, is the elderly matriarch of Willow Springs, a small sea island off the southeast coast of the United States. Mama Day finds herself pitted in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her beloved great niece, Cocoa, who has gone ‘mainside’ and married an urban northerner. Mama Day will use her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and her judicious but dangerous use of magical powers in this bitter struggle.

Bailey’s Cafe

Welcome to Bailey’s Caf , the most mythically real diner you’ve ever walked into. Presided over by Bailey and his helpmate, Nadine, it is a magnet that draws a wide variety of the ‘colored’ people of 1948, each with a story to tell. Bailey tells us about his love for his strong, quiet wife, and shares his haunting memories of World War II. Then, one by one, we hear from the caf ‘s regulars. There is Sadie, whose addiction to alcohol is second only to her mania for cleanliness; the oddly maternal Eve, whose bordello accepts only fresh flowers as legal tender; Sweet Esther, who takes nothing but white roses for her particular favors; Peaches, whose badly mutilated face is a sharp contrast to her beautiful body; Jesse Bell, who cannot overcome her lust for hero*in; Miss Maple whose real name is Stanley; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Gloria Naylor, author of ‘Women of Brewster Place’ and ‘Mama Day’ also available on unabridged Bookcassette Audio, has created perhaps her finest work in ‘Bailey’s Caf ‘. Her wonderful chorus of characters tell tales of woe and fortitude, prejudice and pride; Naylor has transformed the trials of these outcasts into timeless truths about the strengths of people everywhere.

The Men of Brewster Place

Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inhabited that desolate block of row houses, telling their tragic, sad, funny, and heroic stories.

1996

This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government. This domestic spying both destroys the peace and tranquility of the writer’s home and raises serious questions about the use of surveillance and technology by the government.

Children of the Night

A powerful collection of the finest contemporary short fiction by African American writers, including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and others, brilliantly captures the varied facets of the black experience in America. AB.

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