Louise Erdrich Reading Order

27 books (1990–2024)

Louise Erdrich has edited 25 anthology collections from 1990 to 2024, with new volumes still being added to the series. These literary compilations span diverse themes including short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and writings centered on Native American experiences, adoption, faith, and popular culture. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with New Woman, New Fiction. Each anthology functions as an independent collection while contributing to a larger body of curated literary work spanning multiple decades.

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

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1	New Woman, New Fiction 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Growing Up Native American 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best American Short Stories 1993 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Touchwood of Ojibway Prose 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Mistresses of the Dark 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Listening for God, Vol. 3 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Writers on Writing 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Every Day Is a Good Day 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	More Stories We Tell 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Secret Ingredients 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Not Normal, Illinois 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Granta 115 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Freeman's: Arrival 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Bodies Built for Game 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Reel Verse 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Fight of the Century 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Freeman's. Amore 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1999–2016)

Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House series comprises five literary fiction novels published between 1999 and 2016, following the chronological adventures of Ojibwe families in the Great Lakes region during the nineteenth century. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Birchbark House and concluding with Makoons. Each installment deepens the historical and cultural exploration of this Indigenous community across generations, making the sequential reading experience integral to understanding the interconnected narratives.

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

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

6 books (1984–2026)

Louise Erdrich's Collections series comprises five poetry and essay collections published between 1984 and 2026, with the series remaining ongoing. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Jacklight and continuing through Baptism of Desire, Original Fire, The Red Convertible, and Python's Kiss. The series blends literary fiction and non-fiction across its volumes, offering readers Erdrich's evolving perspectives and artistic voice over four decades.

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

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1	Jacklight 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Baptism of Desire 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Original Fire 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Red Convertible 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Holy Rage: Essays 2000-2020 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Python's Kiss 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1994–2002)

The Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith series is a four-volume anthology collection edited by Louise Erdrich that explores the intersection of contemporary American literature and spiritual themes. Published between 1994 and 2002, the series features curated selections from acclaimed literary fiction writers and essayists, with each volume introduced and contextualized by editors Paula J. Carlson and Peter S. Hawkins. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with the first volume and progressing through all four installments to experience the full scope of contemporary voices reflecting on faith and meaning.

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.

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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 🇺🇸🎧 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(With: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,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

97 books (1969–2023)

The Literary Conversations series is a comprehensive collection of 97 interview-based books featuring discussions with major literary figures, published between 1969 and 2023. These volumes document conversations with celebrated authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and many others, offering insights into their creative processes and perspectives. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges. Though spanning several decades, the series appears to be complete as a collected work documenting twentieth-century literary discourse.

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

8 books (1984–2005)

Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine series comprises eight interconnected literary fiction novels published between 1984 and 2005, with the sequence now complete. The books should be read in publication order beginning with Love Medicine, followed by The Beet Queen, Tracks, The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Four Souls, and concluding with The Painted Drum. This reading approach allows readers to experience how Erdrich develops the intricate relationships and histories of her characters across multiple generations and perspectives.

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

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

4 books (1982–2003)

Louise Erdrich's four-book nonfiction series spans from 1982 to 2003 and should be read in publication order. The collection includes Imagination, Route Two (cowritten with Michael Dorris), The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, and Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country. This complete series blends literary reflection with personal narrative and cultural exploration across its entries.

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

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

2 books (1996–2002)

Louise Erdrich's Picture series consists of two complete literary fiction novels published between 1996 and 2002. Read the books in publication order, beginning with Grandmother's Pigeon followed by The Range Eternal. Both works are standalone entries that can be enjoyed independently, though reading them sequentially provides the intended narrative experience.

Start with Grandmother's Pigeon and read in order.

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

17 books (1993–2012)

Louise Erdrich's Selected Shorts is a complete 17-book anthology series published between 1993 and 2012, with each volume collecting short fiction organized around a specific theme or topic. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with For Better and for Worse, and includes thematic volumes such as Family Matters, Food Fictions, Pets!, Tales of Betrayal, Travel Tales, Whodunit?, and American Classics. This collection-based series offers readers curated selections of short stories spanning various genres and time periods, making it ideal for those seeking diverse literary experiences organized by subject matter.

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

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

1 book (2011–2011)

12 books (1991–2027)

Louise Erdrich's standalone novels series comprises eleven literary fiction works published between 1991 and 2024, with the series still ongoing. Though each novel stands independently with its own characters and plot, they should be read in publication order beginning with The Crown of Columbus, co-written with Michael Dorris. The series spans three decades of Erdrich's career and showcases her distinctive voice across various narratives and settings.

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

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1	The Crown of Columbus(With: Michael Dorris) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Master Butchers Singing Club 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Plague of Doves 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Shadow Tag 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Round House 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	LaRose 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Future Home of the Living God 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Night Watchman 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Sentence 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Mighty Red 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	I'm Hungry 2027Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible