Sherman Alexie Reading Order

5 books (2005–2020)

The Akashic Drug Chronicles is a five-book anthology series published between 2005 and 2020, featuring short stories by various acclaimed authors exploring different substances. Each volume focuses on a specific drug, beginning with The Cocaine Chronicles and progressing through works devoted to speed, heroin, marijuana, and nicotine. The series is complete and should be read in publication order. These collections combine literary fiction with unflinching examinations of addiction and drug culture.

Start with The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody), the first of 5 books in the Akashic Drug Chronicles series.

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1	The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Speed Chronicles 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Heroin Chronicles(By: Jervey Tervalon,Lydia Lunch,Erin Moon,Nathan Larson,Antonia Crane,Jerry Stahl,Eric Bogosian,Ava Stander,John Albert,Michael Albo,Sophia Langdon,Tony O'Neill,L.Z. Hansen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Marijuana Chronicles(By: Jonathan Santlofer) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Nicotine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Joyce Carol Oates,Hannah Tinti,Christopher Sorrentino,Cara Black,Lauren Sanders,Bernice L. McFadden,Jonathan Ames) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1994–2027)

This series comprises 18 anthology collections published between 1994 and 2018 that feature Sherman Alexie's work alongside contributions from other writers. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Seventh Annual Collection. These anthologies span various genres and themes, including short fiction, poetry, humor, baseball writing, and popular culture, representing Alexie's presence in diverse literary publications across more than two decades.

Start with Seventh Annual Collection, the first of 18 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best American Short Stories 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Granta 54 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Home Field Writers Remember Baseball 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Ploughshares Winter 2000-01 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The New Young American Poets 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Humor Me: An Anthology of Humor by Writers of Color 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Portable Sixties Reader 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Selected Shorts: New American Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Walking the Clouds 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Stray Dogs 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Flash Fiction International 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Creativity Project 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Unfolding Corpus: Radical Creativity and Vulnerability in Times of Plague 2027Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1991–2015)

Sherman Alexie's Collections series comprises fourteen books of poetry and short stories published between 1991 and 2015, now complete. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems and concluding with The Best American Poetry 2015. These collections showcase Alexie's distinctive voice across nearly two and a half decades of literary work.

Start with The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, the first of 14 books in the Collections series.

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1	The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	First Indian on the Moon 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Old Shirts & New Skins 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Water Flowing Home 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Summer of Black Widows 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Man Who Loves Salmon 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	One Stick Song 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Toughest Indian in the World 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Ten Little Indians 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Face 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Blasphemy 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	What I've Stolen, What I've Earned 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Best American Poetry 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2009–2017)

Sherman Alexie's two-book non-fiction series spans from 2009 to 2017 and is now complete. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with Conversations with Sherman Alexie followed by You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.

Start with Conversations with Sherman Alexie and read in order.

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1	Conversations with Sherman Alexie 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	You Don't Have to Say You Love Me 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2016–2016)

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1	Thunder Boy Jr. 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1993–2003)

Sherman Alexie's two-book drama series, published between 1993 and 2003, comprises Smoke Signals followed by Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay. This complete series should be read in publication order. Both works showcase Alexie's distinctive voice in dramatic form, exploring themes relevant to Native American experience and contemporary life.

Start with Smoke Signals and read in order.

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1	Smoke Signals 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1993–2012)

Sherman Alexie's Selected Shorts series comprises seventeen complete nonfiction collections published between 1993 and 2012, each focusing on a distinct thematic topic ranging from family matters and food to travel tales and classic literature. These books should be read in publication order beginning with For Better and for Worse, progressing through themed volumes like Falling in Love, Pets, Tales of Betrayal, and concluding with American Classics. The series presents a diverse array of short selections organized by subject matter rather than forming a continuous narrative. This collection series offers readers curated stories organized by interest and theme across its full run of seventeen volumes.

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 (1993–1993)

6 books (1995–2009)

Sherman Alexie's six standalone novels, published between 1995 and 2009, are best read in publication order beginning with Reservation Blues. The complete series includes Indian Killer, Flight, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Radioactive Love Song, and War Dances, with each book functioning as an independent work rather than part of a continuous narrative.

Start with Reservation Blues, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	Reservation Blues 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Indian Killer 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Flight 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Radioactive Love Song 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	War Dances 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible