Garrison Keillor Reading Order

6 books (1990–2013)

Garrison Keillor compiled six anthologies between 1990 and 2013, collecting stories, essays, and humor pieces from various contributors. This complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with Great Baseball Stories and concluding with the 2014 Saint Paul Almanac. The anthologies span non-fiction selections ranging from baseball narratives to spiritual reflections and American humor.

Start with Great Baseball Stories, the first of 6 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Great Baseball Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Late Harvest 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best American Short Stories 1998 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The New Treasury of Great Humorists 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	2014 Saint Paul Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1989–2019)

This complete nonfiction series by Garrison Keillor comprises 14 books published between 1989 and 2019, spanning essays, stories, poetry, and audio collections centered on his comedic writing and the fictional town of Lake Wobegon. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with WLT: A Radio Romance and concluding with Living with Limericks. The series includes collections of short stories, humorous essays, love sonnets, and limericks alongside memoirs and audio selections that showcase Keillor's distinctive voice across multiple formats.

Start with WLT: A Radio Romance / Radio Romance, the first of 14 books in the Collections series.

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1	WLT: A Radio Romance / Radio Romance 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Book of Guys 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Keillor Christmas 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Home on the Prairie 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Stories: An Audio Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	A Prairie Home Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	77 Love Sonnets 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Keillor Reader 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	O, What a Luxury 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	A Luxury of Limericks 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Living with Limericks 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1994–2002)

This four-book series, edited by Garrison Keillor and completed between 1994 and 2002, collects essays and reflections on faith drawn from contemporary American literature and writers. Each volume features selections from renowned authors including Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, John Updike, Wendell Berry, James Baldwin, and many others, alongside commentary from editors Paula J. Carlson and Peter S. Hawkins. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with the first volume. This nonfiction anthology series explores the intersection of literature and spirituality through carefully curated literary voices.

Start with Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(With: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins), the first of 4 books in the Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith series.

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1	Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(With: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Listening for God, Vol. 2(By: Anne Tyler,John Updike,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Listening for God, Vol. 3(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Listening For God, Vol. 4(By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2005–2010)

This two-book poetry collection series by Garrison Keillor was published between 2005 and 2010 and is now complete. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Good Poems for Hard Times. Both volumes offer curated selections of poetry intended for various readers and occasions.

Start with Good Poems for Hard Times and read in order.

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1	Good Poems for Hard Times 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Good Poems, American Places 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (1985–2022)

Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon series consists of twelve books published between 1985 and 2022, spanning essays, memoirs, and fiction that explore the quirky residents and happenings of a fictional Minnesota town. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Lake Wobegon Days and concluding with Boom Town. While primarily grounded in nonfiction and autobiographical material, the books blend personal reflection with humorous storytelling about small-town American life. The series appears to be complete as of 2022.

Start with Lake Wobegon Days, the first of 12 books in the Lake Wobegon series.

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1	Lake Wobegon Days 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Leaving Home 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	We Are Still Married 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Wobegon Boy 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	In Search of Lake Wobegon 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Pontoon 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Liberty 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Life Among the Lutherans 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Pilgrims 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Lake Wobegon Virus 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Boom Town 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1982–2020)

Garrison Keillor's non-fiction series consists of 11 books published between 1982 and 2020, with the collection now complete. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with Happy to Be Here and concluding with That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life. The series includes essay collections, songbooks, joke compilations, and reflective volumes that span nearly four decades of the author's writing career.

Start with Happy to Be Here, the first of 11 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	Happy to Be Here 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Ten Years 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Prairie Home Christmas 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Prairie Home Commonplace Book 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Prairie Home Companion 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	A Prairie Home Companion Songbook 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Homegrown Democrat 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Even More Pretty Good Jokes 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Pretty Good Joke Book 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Sounding Off! 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1995–2005)

Garrison Keillor's Picture series consists of three complete non-fiction books published between 1995 and 2005. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Cat, You Better Come Home, followed by The Old Man Who Loved Cheese and Daddy's Girl. This finished series offers readers Keillor's distinctive perspective across its three volumes.

Start with Cat, You Better Come Home and read in order.

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1	Cat, You Better Come Home 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Old Man Who Loved Cheese 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Daddy's Girl 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1996–2009)

Garrison Keillor's four standalone novels span from 1996 to 2009, with each book standing independently and best read in publication order: The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, Me By JimmyValente, Governor Of Minnesota, Love Me, and A Christmas Blizzard. The series is now complete, offering readers a collection of separate stories rather than a connected narrative arc.

Start with The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	The Sandy Bottom Orchestra 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Me By JimmyValente, Governor Of Minnesota 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Love Me 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Christmas Blizzard 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible