May Sarton Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
May Sarton was a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist whose prolific career spanned multiple decades and genres. Her fiction explored intimate human relationships and emotional depth through a distinctly personal lens, drawing on her own experiences to examine themes of love and connection across gender and sexuality. While her work frequently centered on female desire and relationships between women, Sarton maintained that her writing transcended categorical labels, instead seeking to capture the universal complexity of human affection and longing.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with The fur person, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Grain of a Mustard Seed |
| 2 | A House of gathering |
| 3 | A Private Mythology |
| 4 | A celebration |
| 5 | A durable fire |
| 6 | A grain of mustard seed |
| 7 | A service in celebration of the life of May Sarton, 1912-1995 |
| 8 | A shower of summer days |
| 9 | A walk through the woods |
| 10 | A winter garland |
| 11 | ANHELO DE RAÍCES |
| 12 | Absence |
| 13 | After the Stroke |
| 14 | After the war |
| 15 | Anger |
| 16 | Anger |
| 17 | Anger |
| 18 | As Does New Hampshire |
| 19 | As Does New Hampshire |
| 20 | As Does New Hampshire |
| 21 | As Does New Hampshire |
| 22 | As Does New Hampshire |
| 23 | As We Are Now |
| 24 | As We Are Now |
| 25 | As does New Hampshire |
| 26 | As we are now |
| 27 | As we are now |
| 28 | At Eighty-Two |
| 29 | At Eighty-Two |
| 30 | At Eighty-Two |
| 31 | At Eighty-Two |
| 32 | At Seventy |
| 33 | At Seventy |
| 34 | At Seventy |
| 35 | At fifteen |
| 36 | Birth of a Grandfather |
| 37 | Birth of a Grandfather |
| 38 | Bridge of Years |
| 39 | Bridge of Years |
| 40 | Catching beauty |
| 41 | Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine |
| 42 | Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine |
| 43 | Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine |
| 44 | Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine,-Among The Usual Days |
| 45 | Cloud, stone, sun, vine |
| 46 | Cloud, stone, sun, vine |
| 47 | Collected Poems |
| 48 | Collected Poems, 1930-1973 |
| 49 | Collected Poems, 1930-1993 |
| 50 | Collected Poems, 1930-1993 |
| 51 | Collected poems, 1930-1993 |
| 52 | Coming into Eighty |
| 53 | Coming into Eighty |
| 54 | Coming into Eighty |
| 55 | Crucial Conversations |
| 56 | Crucial Conversations |
| 57 | Dear Juliette |
| 58 | Dear Juliette : letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley |
| 59 | Diario de una soledad |
| 60 | Durable Fire |
| 61 | Durable Fire |
| 62 | Durable Fire, a |
| 63 | Education of Harriet Hatfield |
| 64 | Education of Harriet Hatfield |
| 65 | Education of Harriet Hatfield |
| 66 | El señor peludo |
| 67 | Encore |
| 68 | Encounter in April |
| 69 | Encounter in April |
| 70 | Encounter in April |
| 71 | Encounter in April |
| 72 | Endgame |
| 73 | Faithful Are the Wounds |
| 74 | Faithful Are the Wounds |
| 75 | Faithful are the wounds |
| 76 | From May Sarton's well |
| 77 | Fur Person |
| 78 | Grain of Mustard Seed |
| 79 | Grain of Mustard Seed |
| 80 | Grain of Mustard Seed, a |
| 81 | Halfway to Silence |
| 82 | Halfway to Silence |
| 83 | Halfway to silence |
| 84 | Honey in the hive |
| 85 | House by the Sea |
| 86 | House by the Sea |
| 87 | House by the Sea |
| 88 | I Knew a Phoenix |
| 89 | I Knew a Phoenix |
| 90 | I Knew a Phoenix. 1st Ed/1st Printing. 1959 |
| 91 | I knew a phoenix |
| 92 | I knew a phoenix |
| 93 | In Time Like Air |
| 94 | In Time Like Air |
| 95 | In time like air |
| 96 | Inner Landscape |
| 97 | Inner Landscape; Poems |
| 98 | Inner landscape |
| 99 | Inner landscape |
| 100 | Joanna and Ulysses |
| 101 | Joanna and Ulysses, |
| 102 | Journal of a Solitude |
| 103 | Journal of a Solitude |
| 104 | Journals of May Sarton Volume One |
| 105 | Kinds of Love |
| 106 | Kinds of Love |
| 107 | Kürklü Kisi |
| 108 | La casa junto al mar |
| 109 | Land of Silence |
| 110 | Land of Silence |
| 111 | Letters from Maine |
| 112 | Letters from Maine |
| 113 | Letters from Maine |
| 114 | Lion and the Rose |
| 115 | Lion and the Rose |
| 116 | Lion and the Rose |
| 117 | Lion and the Rose, The |
| 118 | MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING |
| 119 | MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING 1965 FIRST Rare |
| 120 | Magnificent Spinster |
| 121 | Magnificent Spinster |
| 122 | Magnificent Spinster |
| 123 | May Sarton |
| 124 | May Sarton |
| 125 | May Sarton (Twayne's United States Authors Series) |
| 126 | May Sarton to Valeria Knapp |
| 127 | Miss Pickthorn and Mister Hare |
| 128 | Miss Pickthorn and Mr Hare |
| 129 | Miss Pickthorn and Mr Hare |
| 130 | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing |
| 131 | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing |
| 132 | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing |
| 133 | Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing |
| 134 | Novels of May Sarton Volume One |
| 135 | Now I become myself |
| 136 | On being given time |
| 137 | Plant Dreaming Deep |
| 138 | Plant Dreaming Deep |
| 139 | Plant Dreaming Deep |
| 140 | Plant dreaming deep |
| 141 | Poet and the Donkey |
| 142 | Poet in residence |
| 143 | Poetry of May Sarton Volume One |
| 144 | Poetry of May Sarton Volume Two |
| 145 | Poets Speak |
| 146 | Private Mythology |
| 147 | Private Mythology, a |
| 148 | Reckoning |
| 149 | Reckoning |
| 150 | Reckoning |
| 151 | Recovering |
| 152 | Recovering |
| 153 | Recovering |
| 154 | Recovering, a journal |
| 155 | Sarton Selected |
| 156 | Selected Poems of May Sarton |
| 157 | Selected letters |
| 158 | Selected poems of May Sarton |
| 159 | Shadow of a Man |
| 160 | Shadow of a Man |
| 161 | Shadow of a Man |
| 162 | Shower of Summer Days |
| 163 | Shower of Summer Days |
| 164 | Shower of Summer Days |
| 165 | Single Hound |
| 166 | Single Hound |
| 167 | Small Room |
| 168 | Small Room |
| 169 | The Chamber Theatre of Maine presents |
| 170 | The Fur Person |
| 171 | The Fur Person |
| 172 | The Fur Person |
| 173 | The Fur Person |
| 174 | The Poet and the Donkey |
| 175 | The Silence Now |
| 176 | The Small Room |
| 177 | The birth of a grandfather |
| 178 | The birth of a grandfather |
| 179 | The bridge of years |
| 180 | The design of a novel |
| 181 | The fur person |
| 182 | The house by the sea - a journal |
| 183 | The land of silence, and other poems |
| 184 | The leaves of the tree |
| 185 | The lion and the rose |
| 186 | The old-fashioned snow |
| 187 | The phoenix again |
| 188 | The poets speak |
| 189 | The single hound |
| 190 | The small room |
| 191 | The underground river |
| 192 | The writing of a poem |
| 193 | The writing of a poem |
| 194 | World of Light |
| 195 | World of Light |
| 196 | World of Light |
| 197 | Writings on Writing |
| 198 | The fur person 1957 |
| 199 | Kinds of love 1980 |
| 200 | Plant dreaming deep 1983 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has May Sarton written?
- May Sarton has written 200 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1957 to 1983.
- Are May Sarton's series complete?
- May Sarton has 1 completed series.

