Rita Dove Books In OrderPublication Order of Standalone NovelsPublication Order of PlaysPublication Order of CollectionsPublication Order of AnthologiesLeave a Reply
| Through the Ivory Gate | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Darker Face of the Earth | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Yellow House on the Corner | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Museum | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fifth Sunday | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Thomas and Beulah | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Grace Notes | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Selected Poems | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Poet’s World | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Mother Love | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| On the Bus With Rosa Parks | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| American Smooth | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Sonata Mulattica | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Collected Poems: 1974-2004 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Playlist for the Apocalypse | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| I Am the Darker Brother | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| O Taste and See: Food Poems | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Writer in the Library: 41 Writers Reveal How They Use Libraries to Develop Their Skill, Craft & Careers | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Sisters | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Civil Rights Reader | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| What My Mother Gave Me | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Truth to Power | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Bearden’s Odyssey | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The 1619 Project | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |