Louise Erdrich Reading Order

25 books (1990–2024)

Start with New Woman, New Fiction, the first of 25 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	New Woman, New Fiction 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Growing Up Native American 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best American Short Stories 1993 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Touchwood of Ojibway Prose 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	Mistresses of the Dark 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Listening for God, Vol. 3 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Writers on Writing 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	Every Day Is a Good Day 2004Buy 🇺🇸
16	More Stories We Tell 2004Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Secret Ingredients 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Not Normal, Illinois 2009Buy 🇺🇸
21	Granta 115 2011Buy 🇺🇸
22	Bodies Built for Game 2019Buy 🇺🇸
23	Reel Verse 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Freeman's. Amore 2020Buy 🇺🇸
25	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1999–2016)

Start with The Birchbark House, the first of 5 books in the Birchbark House series.

#	Title
1	The Birchbark House 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Game of Silence 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Porcupine Year 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Chickadee 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Makoons 2016Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1984–2026)

Start with Jacklight, the first of 5 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Jacklight 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Baptism of Desire 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Original Fire 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Red Convertible 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Python's Kiss 2026Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1994–2002)

Start with Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,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(By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,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(With: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,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 🇺🇸

97 books (1969–2023)

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

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

8 books (1984–2005)

Start with Love Medicine, the first of 8 books in the Love Medicine series.

#	Title
1	Love Medicine 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Beet Queen 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tracks 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Bingo Palace 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tales of Burning Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Four Souls 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Painted Drum 2005Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1982–2003)

Start with Imagination, the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Imagination 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Route Two(With: Michael Dorris) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country 2003Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–2002)

Start with Grandmother's Pigeon and read in order.

#	Title
1	Grandmother's Pigeon 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Range Eternal 2002Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1993–2012)

Start with For Better and for Worse, the first of 17 books in the Selected Shorts series.

#	Title
1	For Better and for Worse 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Even More Laughs 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Timeless Classics 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Edith Wharton 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Falling in Love 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Family Matters 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Food Fictions 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pets! 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tales of Betrayal 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Travel Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Are We There Yet? 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Touch of Magic 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	The William Hurt Collection 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Whodunit? 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	American Classics 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	New American Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Poe! 2012Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

11 books (1991–2024)

Start with The Crown of Columbus(With: Michael Dorris), the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Crown of Columbus(With: Michael Dorris) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Master Butchers Singing Club 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Plague of Doves 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shadow Tag 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Round House 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	LaRose 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Future Home of the Living God 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Night Watchman 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Sentence 2021Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mighty Red 2024Buy 🇺🇸