Larry McMurtry Reading Order

4 books (1993–2003)

Start with Southwest Stories, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Southwest Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Still Wild 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lone Star Literature 2003Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2002–2004)

Start with Sin Killer, the first of 4 books in the Berrybender Narratives series.

#	Title
1	Sin Killer 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	By Sorrow's River 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wandering Hill 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Folly and Glory 2004Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1983–1995)

Start with The Desert Rose and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Desert Rose 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Late Child 1995Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1970–1992)

Start with Moving On, the first of 6 books in the Houston series.

#	Title
1	Moving On 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Terms of Endearment 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Somebody's Darling 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	Some Can Whistle 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Evening Star 1992Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1966–2009)

Start with The Last Picture Show, the first of 5 books in the Last Picture Show series.

#	Title
1	The Last Picture Show 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Texasville 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Duane's Depressed 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	When the Light Goes 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Rhino Ranch 2009Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1985–1997)

Start with Lonesome Dove, the first of 4 books in the Lonesome Dove series.

#	Title
1	Lonesome Dove 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Streets of Laredo 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead Man's Walk 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Comanche Moon 1997Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1968–2015)

Start with In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas, the first of 14 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crazy Horse 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Paradise 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Colonel and Little Missie 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	Books: A Memoir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Literary Life: A Second Memoir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hollywood: A Third Memoir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	Custer 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Missouri River 2015Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1960–2011)

Start with Abraham Lincoln(By: Thomas Keneally), the first of 32 books in the Penguin Lives series.

#	Title
1	Abraham Lincoln(By: Thomas Keneally) 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Crazy Horse 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	James Joyce(By: Edna O'Brien) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mao Zedong: A Life(By: Jonathan D. Spence) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Marcel Proust(By: Edmund White) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mozart: A Life(By: Peter Gay) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Saint Augustine(By: Garry Wills) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	Herman Melville(By: Elizabeth Hardwick) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	Leonardo da Vinci: A Life(By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Rosa Parks(By: Douglas Brinkley) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	Virginia Woolf(By: Nigel Nicolson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Woodrow Wilson(By: Louis Auchincloss) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Andy Warhol: A Biography(By: Wayne Koestenbaum) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Buddha(By: Karen Armstrong) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dante(By: R.W.B. Lewis) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
16	Jane Austen(By: Carol Shields) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
17	Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life(By: Marshall Frady) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	Simone Weil(By: Francine du Plessix Gray) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Charles Dickens(By: Jane Smiley) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	Elvis Presley(By: Bobbie Ann Mason) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	Joseph Smith(By: Robert V. Remini) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
22	Pope John XXIII(By: Thomas Cahill) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
23	Winston Churchill: A Life(By: John Keegan) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
24	Robert E. Lee(By: Roy Blount Jr.) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
25	Saint Therese of Lisieux(By: Kathryn Harrison) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
26	Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life(By: Ada Louise Huxtable) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
27	George Herbert Walker Bush(By: Tom Wicker) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
28	Napoleon(By: Paul Johnson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
29	Julia Child(By: Laura Shapiro) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
30	Joan of Arc(By: Mary Gordon) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
31	Martin Luther(By: Martin E. Marty) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
32	Branch Rickey: A Life(By: Jimmy Breslin) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2005–2005)

#	Title
1	Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay(With: Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana) 2005Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1982–2014)

Start with Cadillac Jack, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Cadillac Jack 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anything for Billy 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Buffalo Girls 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Pretty Boy Floyd(With: Diana Ossana) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Zeke and Ned(With: Diana Ossana) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Boone's Lick 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Loop Group 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Telegraph Days 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Last Kind Words Saloon 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1961–2017)

Start with Horseman, Pass By / Hud and read in order.

#	Title
1	Horseman, Pass By / Hud 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Leaving Cheyenne 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	Thalia 2017Buy 🇺🇸