Bess Streeter Aldrich Reading Order
1 series · 29 books
Bess Streeter Aldrich was an American author who wrote primarily standalone novels set in the American Midwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her work is characterized by warm, accessible storytelling that captures the lives and struggles of ordinary people, particularly women navigating family, community, and personal identity. Though largely forgotten today, Aldrich was a prolific and popular writer during her lifetime, publishing nearly thirty novels between 1924 and her death in 1954.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete29 books
Start with Mother mason, the first of 29 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A lantern in her hand |
| 2 | A long-distance call from Jim |
| 3 | Journey into Christmas and Star Across the Tracks |
| 4 | Miss Bishop |
| 5 | Mother's excitement over Father's old sweetheart |
| 6 | Mother mason 1924 |
| 7 | The Rim of the Prairie 1925 |
| 8 | The Cutters 1926 |
| 9 | A lantern in her hand 1928 |
| 10 | The man who dreaded to go home 1928 |
| 11 | A white bird flying 1931 |
| 12 | Miss Bishop 1933 |
| 13 | Spring came on forever 1935 |
| 14 | A Lantern in Her Hand and A White Bird Flying 1936 |
| 15 | The man who caught the weather, and other stories 1936 |
| 16 | Song of Years 1939 |
| 17 | The drum goes dead 1941 |
| 18 | The lieutenant's lady 1942 |
| 19 | Journey into Christmas 1949 |
| 20 | Journey into Christmas and other stories 1949 |
| 21 | A Bess Streeter Aldrich treasury 1959 |
| 22 | Romance in G Minor 1983 |
| 23 | The Home-Coming and Other Stories 1983 |
| 24 | Across the Smiling Meadow 1984 |
| 25 | The Victory of Connie Lee 1985 |
| 26 | The Outsider 1990 |
| 27 | The collected short works, 1907-1919 1995 |
| 28 | Classic Critical Concern 1999 |
| 29 | The collected short works, 1920-1954 1999 |
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