Pearl S. Buck Reading Order

5 books (1965–2002)

Start with Fairy Tales of the Orient, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Fairy Tales of the Orient 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ten Modern American Short Stories 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	Great Biographies: P.T. Barnum, Pearl S. Buck, Adolf Hitler, John Quincy and Louisa Adams 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Clay Marble, with, Connections 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old 2002Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1932–1995)

Start with The Young Revolutionist, the first of 4 books in the Children's series.

#	Title
1	The Young Revolutionist 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Big Fight 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	Little Fox in the Middle 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Field of Rice 1995Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1931–1935)

Start with The Good Earth and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Good Earth 1931Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sons 1932Buy 🇺🇸
3	A House Divided 1935Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1936–2012)

Start with The Exile, the first of 23 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Exile 1936Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul 1937Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Chinese Novel 1939Buy 🇺🇸
4	Of Men and Women 1941Buy 🇺🇸
5	Freedom for India Now! 1942Buy 🇺🇸
6	American Argument 1950Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Child Who Never Grew 1950Buy 🇺🇸
8	My Several Worlds 1954Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tell the People: Talks with James Yen About the Mass Educational Movement 1959Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Bridge for Passing 1962Buy 🇺🇸
11	Joy of Children 1964Buy 🇺🇸
12	For Spacious Skies(With: Theodore F. Harris) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
13	The People of Japan 1966Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Kennedy Women 1970Buy 🇺🇸
15	China As I See It 1971Buy 🇺🇸
16	Pearl Buck's America 1971Buy 🇺🇸
17	American Unity and Asia 1972Buy 🇺🇸
18	China Past and Present 1972Buy 🇺🇸
19	Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook 1972Buy 🇺🇸
20	What America Means to Me 1973Buy 🇺🇸
21	Argument Argument 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	New Evidence of the Militarization of America 2011Buy 🇺🇸
23	How It Happens 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2002–2020)

Start with Christmas Day in the Morning and read in order.

#	Title
1	Christmas Day in the Morning 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Christmas Mouse 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1981–2018)

Start with The Old Demon and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Old Demon 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Enemy 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Refugees 2018Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1933–1985)

Start with The First Wife and Other Stories, the first of 22 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The First Wife and Other Stories 1933Buy 🇺🇸
2	Today and Forever: Stories of Japan 1941Buy 🇺🇸
3	Once Upon a Christmas 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	One Bright Day and Other Stories for Children 1952Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fourteen Stories 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	With a Delicate Air and Other Stories 1962Buy 🇺🇸
7	To My Daughters, With Love 1967Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Good Deed and Other Stories of Asia Past and Present 1969Buy 🇺🇸
9	Pearl S. Buck: The Complete Woman 1971Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Story Bible, Volume I: The Old Testament 1971Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Story Bible, Volume II: The New Testament 1972Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Gift for the Children(With: Elaine Scull) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pearl S. Buck's Book of Christmas 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	Words of Love 1974Buy 🇺🇸
15	East and West 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hearts Come Home and Other Stories 1976Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and Other Works 1976Buy 🇺🇸
18	Secrets of the Heart 1976Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Lovers and Other Stories 1977Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories 1979Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Pearl Buck Reader, Vol. 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Pearl Buck Reader, Vol. 2 1985Buy 🇺🇸

42 books (1930–2013)

Start with East Wind: West Wind, the first of 42 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	East Wind: West Wind 1930Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mother 1933Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Big Wave 1938Buy 🇺🇸
4	This Proud Heart 1938Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Patriot 1939Buy 🇺🇸
6	Other Gods 1940Buy 🇺🇸
7	Portrait of a Marriage 1940Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dragon Seed 1941Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Promise 1943Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Love(As: John Sedges) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Townsman(As: John Sedges) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
12	Voices in the House(As: John Sedges) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pavilion of Women(As: John Sedges) 1946Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Angry Wife 1947Buy 🇺🇸
15	Peony 1948Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Bondmaid 1949Buy 🇺🇸
17	Kinfolk 1950Buy 🇺🇸
18	God's Men 1951Buy 🇺🇸
19	Bright Procession(As: John Sedges) 1952Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Hidden Flower 1952Buy 🇺🇸
21	Come, My Beloved 1953Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Man Who Changed China 1953Buy 🇺🇸
23	China Sky 1956Buy 🇺🇸
24	Imperial Woman 1956Buy 🇺🇸
25	Letter from Peking 1957Buy 🇺🇸
26	Command the Morning 1959Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Christmas Ghost 1960Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Devil Never Sleeps 1962Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Living Reed 1963Buy 🇺🇸
30	Death in the Castle 1966Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Time is Noon 1966Buy 🇺🇸
32	Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 1967Buy 🇺🇸
33	The New Year 1968Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Three Daughters of Madame Liang 1969Buy 🇺🇸
35	Mandala 1970Buy 🇺🇸
36	Chinese Story Teller 1971Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Beech Tree and Johnny Jack and His Beginnings 1972Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Goddess Abides 1972Buy 🇺🇸
39	All Under Heaven 1973Buy 🇺🇸
40	Far and Near 1973Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Rainbow 1974Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Eternal Wonder 2013Buy 🇺🇸