Shelby Foote Reading Order

4 books (1958–1993)

Shelby Foote's four-volume Civil War series provides a comprehensive historical account of the American Civil War, spanning from the conflict's opening at Fort Sumter through the final surrender at Appomattox, with a supplementary short story collection. Published between 1958 and 1993, this complete series blends historical fiction and nonfiction to chronicle the war's major battles and turning points across three narrative volumes followed by Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories. Readers should follow publication order to experience Foote's chronological progression through the war's critical phases: from the early campaigns through Perryville, then Fredericksburg to Meridian, and finally the Red River campaign to war's end. The series combines literary storytelling with historical documentation to explore one of America's most consequential events.

Start with The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville, the first of 4 books in the Civil War series.

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1	The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

97 books (1969–2023)

The Literary Conversations series comprises 97 books of interviews with major literary figures, published from 1969 to 2023 and likely complete. Each volume features conversations with a single author, beginning with Jorge Luis Borges and spanning writers including Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and many others across the twentieth century. These books should be read in publication order, as each entry stands independently while collectively documenting the voices and perspectives of significant literary personalities.

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

3 books (1994–1996)

Shelby Foote's three-book nonfiction series spans from 1994 to 1996 and should be read in publication order beginning with Stars in Their Courses. The complete series concludes with The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, offering insights from this acclaimed historical and literary writer across multiple nonfiction subjects and formats.

Start with Stars in Their Courses and read in order.

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1	Stars in Their Courses 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Beleaguered City 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1954–1954)

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1	Jordan County 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1949–1978)

Shelby Foote's five standalone novels were published between 1949 and 1978, comprising a complete series that should be read in publication order: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, and September, September. These historical and literary fiction works showcase Foote's distinctive voice across multiple narratives and time periods. The series is finished with no additional volumes planned.

Start with Tournament, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Tournament 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Follow Me Down 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Love in a Dry Season 1951Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Shiloh 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	September, September 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible