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Garrison Keillor Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Garrison Keillor in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 50 books / 7 series

American author best known for the *Lake Wobegon* series and his long-running radio show *A Prairie Home Companion*. His books have sold millions of copies and earned a National Humanities Medal. This page provides the Garrison Keillor books in order, including both chronological publication order and series reading order.

Books by Garrison Keillor in Publication Order

1982 Happy to Be Here POoNB / 1 Buy
1984 Ten Years POoNB / 2 Buy
1985 Lake Wobegon Days POoLWB / 1 Buy
1987 Leaving Home POoLWB / 2 Buy
1989 WLT: A Radio Romance / Radio Romance POoC / 1 Buy
1989 We Are Still Married POoLWB / 3 Buy
1993 The Book of Guys POoC / 2 Buy
1994 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(With: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodr’guez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) POoCLatLoFB / 1 Buy
1995 Cat, You Better Come Home POoPB / 1 Buy
1995 Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories POoC / 3 Buy
1995 A Prairie Home Christmas POoNB / 3 Buy
1996 The Sandy Bottom Orchestra POoSN / 1 Buy
1996 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) POoCLatLoFB / 2 Buy
1996 The Old Man Who Loved Cheese POoPB / 2 Buy
1997 Wobegon Boy POoLWB / 4 Buy
1999 Me By JimmyValente, Governor Of Minnesota POoSN / 2 Buy
1999 A Prairie Home Commonplace Book POoNB / 4 Buy
1999 A Prairie Home Companion POoNB / 5 Buy
2000 Listening for God, Vol. 3(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) POoCLatLoFB / 3 Buy
2000 Keillor Christmas POoC / 4 Buy
2000 A Prairie Home Companion Songbook POoNB / 6 Buy
2001 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 POoLWB / 5 Buy
2002 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) POoCLatLoFB / 4 Buy
2003 Love Me POoSN / 3 Buy
2003 Home on the Prairie POoC / 5 Buy
2003 Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy POoC / 6 Buy
2003 Stories: An Audio Collection POoC / 7 Buy
2004 Homegrown Democrat POoNB / 7 Buy
2005 Good Poems for Hard Times POoGPB / 1 Buy
2005 Daddy's Girl POoPB / 3 Buy
2006 In Search of Lake Wobegon POoLWB / 6 Buy
2006 A Prairie Home Collection POoC / 8 Buy
2007 Pontoon POoLWB / 7 Buy
2008 Liberty POoLWB / 8 Buy
2009 A Christmas Blizzard POoSN / 4 Buy
2009 Even More Pretty Good Jokes POoNB / 8 Buy
2009 Life Among the Lutherans POoLWB / 9 Buy
2009 The Keillor Reader POoC / 9 Buy
2009 Pilgrims POoLWB / 10 Buy
2009 77 Love Sonnets POoC / 10 Buy
2010 Good Poems, American Places POoGPB / 2 Buy
2012 Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny POoC / 11 Buy
2013 O, What a Luxury POoC / 12 Buy
2015 Pretty Good Joke Book POoNB / 9 Buy
2016 Sounding Off! POoNB / 10 Buy
2018 A Luxury of Limericks POoC / 13 Buy
2019 Living with Limericks POoC / 14 Buy
2020 The Lake Wobegon Virus POoLWB / 11 Buy
2020 That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life POoNB / 11 Buy
2022 Boom Town POoLWB / 12 Buy

Complete Garrison Keillor Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Non-Fiction Reading Order 11 books / 1982-2020
01 Happy to Be Here 1982 Buy
02 Ten Years 1984 Buy
03 A Prairie Home Christmas 1995 Buy
04 A Prairie Home Commonplace Book 1999 Buy
05 A Prairie Home Companion 1999 Buy
06 A Prairie Home Companion Songbook 2000 Buy
07 Homegrown Democrat 2004 Buy
08 Even More Pretty Good Jokes 2009 Buy
09 Pretty Good Joke Book 2015 Buy
10 Sounding Off! 2016 Buy
11 That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life 2020 Buy
Lake Wobegon Reading Order 12 books / 1985-2022
01 Lake Wobegon Days 1985 Buy
02 Leaving Home 1987 Buy
03 We Are Still Married 1989 Buy
04 Wobegon Boy 1997 Buy
05 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 2001 Buy
06 In Search of Lake Wobegon 2006 Buy
07 Pontoon 2007 Buy
08 Liberty 2008 Buy
09 Life Among the Lutherans 2009 Buy
10 Pilgrims 2009 Buy
11 The Lake Wobegon Virus 2020 Buy
12 Boom Town 2022 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 4 books / 1996-2009
01 The Sandy Bottom Orchestra 1996 Buy
02 Me By JimmyValente, Governor Of Minnesota 1999 Buy
03 Love Me 2003 Buy
04 A Christmas Blizzard 2009 Buy
Good Poems Reading Order 2 books / 2005-2010
01 Good Poems for Hard Times 2005 Buy
02 Good Poems, American Places 2010 Buy
01 Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1(With: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodr’guez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 1994 Buy
02 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) 1996 Buy
03 Listening for God, Vol. 3(By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) 2000 Buy
04 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) 2002 Buy
Picture Reading Order 3 books / 1995-2005
01 Cat, You Better Come Home 1995 Buy
02 The Old Man Who Loved Cheese 1996 Buy
03 Daddy's Girl 2005 Buy
Collections Reading Order 14 books / 1989-2019
01 WLT: A Radio Romance / Radio Romance 1989 Buy
02 The Book of Guys 1993 Buy
03 Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories 1995 Buy
04 Keillor Christmas 2000 Buy
05 Home on the Prairie 2003 Buy
06 Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy 2003 Buy
07 Stories: An Audio Collection 2003 Buy
08 A Prairie Home Collection 2006 Buy
09 The Keillor Reader 2009 Buy
10 77 Love Sonnets 2009 Buy
11 Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny 2012 Buy
12 O, What a Luxury 2013 Buy
13 A Luxury of Limericks 2018 Buy
14 Living with Limericks 2019 Buy

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Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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