How many of these powerful Toni Morrison novels have you read?

TNN | June 02, 2017
All of Toni Morrison's beautiful novels
1/12All of Toni Morrison's beautiful novels
The literary genius known as Toni Morrison is a writer of the damaged and the damned. Morrison champions the cause of the black community, their hopes and dreams, trials and tribulations, their vigour and vitality. The Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner is the author of 11 fantastic novels, each written with her superior linguistic fervour and heartfelt passion. It is difficult to rank all of her equally amazing novels, but here is a list you may want to refer to.
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The Bluest Eye
2/12The Bluest Eye
This heartbreaking and beautifully written novel follows the life of African-American Pecola Breedlove in her 30s, who develops a repulsion to her eyes and skin colour. The novel is great in its frank depiction of harrowing events of incestuous rape and hate crimes while speaking about a girl’s yearning for beauty, which is shaped by a White supremacist rule.
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Beloved
3/12Beloved
Set in the 19th century, the novel examines the tragic effects of slavery as an ex-slave woman Sethe is still haunted by her deeds and memories even 18 years after fleeing the plantation, while she becomes convinced that a young woman called ‘Beloved’ is her dead daughter returned to her.
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Sula
4/12Sula
The novel follows the intertwined lives of two girls in the Black community, Nel and Sula, who come from opposite kinds of families and lead very different ways of life. The book talks about their turbulent friendship and the dynamics of the community, portraying the other characters extremely realistically as they struggle to make sense of the complex circumstances by imposing moral judgements.
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Song of Solomon
5/12Song of Solomon
This book won Toni Morrison her Nobel Prize in literature. It chronicles the life of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III, a Black man and is full of ambiguous religious imagery and themes. The book is a poetic exploration of complicated questions regarding the pursuit of wealth and truth, and the tensions between freedom and slavery.
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