Jim Harrison Reading Order

2 books (2000–2002)

Jim Harrison edited two anthologies of poetry and fiction published between 2000 and 2002, representing a complete collection that should be read in publication order. New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry was released first, followed by Wild Stories, offering curated selections from literary voices spanning mystery, thriller, and experimental fiction.

Start with New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry and read in order.

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1	New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Wild Stories 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2022–2022)

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1	The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1988–1998)

Jim Harrison's two-book Dalva series spans a decade of publication, from 1988 to 1998, and should be read in publication order beginning with Dalva followed by The Road Home. This complete literary mystery series explores interconnected narratives across the American landscape. The novels blend Harrison's signature storytelling with elements of mystery and personal discovery as characters confront their pasts and search for meaning in the present.

Start with Dalva and read in order.

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1	Dalva 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Road Home 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2011–2015)

Jim Harrison's Detective Sunderson series consists of two mystery novels published between 2011 and 2015, with the complete series available in publication order. Begin with Great Leader, followed by The Big Seven, as they should be read sequentially. This finished series blends literary fiction with crime mystery elements, offering readers Harrison's distinctive approach to the detective genre.

Start with Great Leader and read in order.

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1	Great Leader 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Big Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

97 books (1969–2023)

The Literary Conversations series comprises 97 books of interviews and discussions with major literary figures, published between 1969 and 2023. This nonfiction collection should be read in publication order, beginning with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges and continuing through notable volumes featuring writers such as Czeslaw Milosz, Graham Greene, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, and many others. The series appears to be complete, offering readers direct engagement with the thoughts and perspectives of significant authors across the twentieth century.

Start with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, the first of 97 books in the Literary Conversations series.

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1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conversations with Graham Greene 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Conversations with Walker Percy 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Conversations with William Styron 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Truman Capote: Conversations 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Conversations with Edward Albee 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Conversations with James Baldwin 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Conversations with Robert Graves 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Conversations with John Gardner 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Conversations with Robert Coles 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Conversations with Richard Wright 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Conversations with Henry Miller 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Conversations with Chester Himes 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Conversations With John Fowles 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Conversations With William Faulkner 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Conversations with Richard Ford 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Conversations with Clarence Major 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Conversations with Erica Jong 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	Conversations with Rita Dove 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Conversations With John le Carré 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Conversations with Larry Brown 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1993–2017)

Jim Harrison's nonfiction series comprises five books published between 1993 and 2017, now complete. The collection should be read in publication order, beginning with Just Before Dark and concluding with A Really Big Lunch. These works span literary essays, memoir, and reflections that showcase Harrison's perspectives across multiple decades of his life and career.

Start with Just Before Dark, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	Just Before Dark 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Raw and the Cooked 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Off to the Side 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Etiquette of Freedom 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Really Big Lunch 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1965–2020)

Jim Harrison's Poetry series spans 17 volumes published between 1965 and 2020, comprising a complete collection of his verse work. Readers should follow publication order, beginning with Plain Song and progressing through such notable volumes as The Shape of the Journey, Braided Creek, and the comprehensive retrospective Darkness Sticks to Everything. The series concludes with Dead Man's Float, representing Harrison's final poetic contributions across more than five decades of literary output.

Start with Plain Song, the first of 17 books in the Poetry series.

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1	Plain Song 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Locations 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Outlyer and Ghazals 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Letters to Yesenin 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Natural World 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	After Ikkyu and Other Poems 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Shape of the Journey 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Braided Creek 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Saving Daylight 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	In Search of Small Gods 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Songs of Unreason 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems(With: Tom Hennen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Dead Man's Float 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1990–2016)

Jim Harrison published eight collections of short stories and novellas between 1990 and 2016, completing this series with The Ancient Minstrel. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with The Woman Lit by Fireflies. The series showcases Harrison's distinctive voice across literary fiction and mystery-tinged narratives, offering readers a comprehensive view of his shorter form storytelling over more than two decades.

Start with The Woman Lit by Fireflies, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

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1	The Woman Lit by Fireflies 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Julip 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Beast God Forgot to Invent 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Summer He Didn't Die 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Farmer's Daughter 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Brown Dog 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The River Swimmer 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Ancient Minstrel 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1971–2008)

Jim Harrison's standalone novels span from 1971 to 2008, comprising eight independent works that need not be read in any particular sequence, though publication order is recommended for following the author's evolving literary voice. The complete collection includes Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Legends of the Fall, Warlock, Sundog, The Boy Who Ran to the Woods, and The English Major, each standing alone as a distinct narrative. Harrison's body of work blends mystery and thriller elements with literary fiction sensibilities, establishing him as a significant voice in contemporary American literature across multiple genres.

Start with Wolf, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Wolf 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Good Day to Die 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Farmer 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Legends of the Fall 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Warlock 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Sundog 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Boy Who Ran to the Woods 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The English Major 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2004–2007)

Jim Harrison's True North series comprises two literary thrillers published between 2004 and 2007. The duology should be read in publication order, beginning with True North followed by Returning to Earth. This complete series blends mystery elements with Harrison's characteristic literary approach.

Start with True North and read in order.

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1	True North 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Returning to Earth 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible