Octavia Butler--Things I was told to read

This is a list for myself, but welcome yourself to it:

Xenogenesis Trilogy
Dawn (1987)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
Imago (1989)
trilogy republished as: Lilith's Brood (2000)

Patternist
Wild Seed (1980)
Mind of My Mind (1977)
Patternmaster (1976)
Clay's Ark (1984)
Survivor (1978)

Kindred (1979)
Parable
Parable of the Sower (1994) (nominated for a Nebula in 1994-95)
Parable of the Talents (1998) New York: Seven Stories Press. 1-888363-81-9.

"Speech Sounds"
appeared in Asimov's (December 1983). Won Hugo. Republished in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).
"Bloodchild"
appeared in Asimov's (June 1984); won 1984 Nebula for best novelette; won 1985 Hugo. Republished in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).
Bloodchild and Other Stories.
(Four Walls Eight Windows: New York, London, 1995).
Includes Preface, "Bloodchild" (1984); "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1987 / 1988); "Near of Kin" (1979); "Speech Sounds" (1983); "Crossover" (1971); and two essays: "Positive Obsession" (1989, as "Birth of a Writer"); "Furor Scribendi" (1993).