Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage.

In 1992, Campbell would release her first, and most critically acclaimed novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was described as one of the most influential books of 1992 by The New York Times Magazine.

This book, which was inspired by the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, describes the impacts of this senseless crime experienced by the victim's family.

Campbell, inspired by the Rodney King beating and the subsequent Los Angeles riots, wrote her second novel, titled Brothers and Sisters.

[5] In May 2008, the US House of Representatives announced July as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.