Garrison Keillor Reading Order

6 books (1990–2013)

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

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

14 books (1989–2019)

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

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

4 books (1994–2002)

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.

#	Title
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸

2 books (2005–2010)

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

#	Title
1	Good Poems for Hard Times 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Good Poems, American Places 2010Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1985–2022)

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

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

11 books (1982–2020)

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

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

3 books (1995–2005)

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

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

4 books (1996–2009)

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

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