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Jane Smiley Complete Bibliography

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

Updated 2026-07-11 / 78 books / 10 series

American novelist Jane Smiley is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *A Thousand Acres* and the *Last Hundred Years* trilogy. Her acclaimed works have sold millions of copies and earned her a National Book Critics Circle Award. This page provides the Jane Smiley books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

Books by Jane Smiley in Publication Order

1200 The Sagas of Icelanders POoNB / 1 Buy
1960 Abraham Lincoln(By: Thomas Keneally) POoPLB / 1 Buy
1980 Barn Blind POoSN / 1 Buy
1981 At Paradise Gate POoSN / 2 Buy
1984 Duplicate Keys POoSN / 3 Buy
1987 The Age of Grief POoC / 1 Buy
1987 Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains POoNB / 2 Buy
1988 The Greenlanders POoSN / 4 Buy
1989 Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas POoC / 2 Buy
1991 A Thousand Acres POoSN / 5 Buy
1995 Moo POoSN / 6 Buy
1998 The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton POoLNB / 1 Buy
1999 Mao Zedong: A Life(By: Jonathan D. Spence) POoPLB / 2 Buy
1999 Mozart: A Life(By: Peter Gay) POoPLB / 3 Buy
1999 Marcel Proust(By: Edmund White) POoPLB / 4 Buy
1999 Crazy Horse(By: Larry McMurtry) POoPLB / 5 Buy
1999 Saint Augustine(By: Garry Wills) POoPLB / 6 Buy
1999 Horse Heaven POoSN / 7 Buy
1999 James Joyce(By: Edna O'Brien) POoPLB / 7 Buy
2000 Rosa Parks(By: Douglas Brinkley) POoPLB / 8 Buy
2000 Virginia Woolf(By: Nigel Nicolson) POoPLB / 9 Buy
2000 Woodrow Wilson(By: Louis Auchincloss) POoPLB / 10 Buy
2000 Herman Melville(By: Elizabeth Hardwick) POoPLB / 11 Buy
2000 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life(By: Sherwin B. Nuland) POoPLB / 12 Buy
2001 Dante(By: R.W.B. Lewis) POoPLB / 13 Buy
2001 Jane Austen(By: Carol Shields) POoPLB / 14 Buy
2001 Buddha(By: Karen Armstrong) POoPLB / 15 Buy
2001 Simone Weil(By: Francine du Plessix Gray) POoPLB / 16 Buy
2001 Andy Warhol: A Biography(By: Wayne Koestenbaum) POoPLB / 17 Buy
2001 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life(By: Marshall Frady) POoPLB / 18 Buy
2002 Joseph Smith(By: Robert V. Remini) POoPLB / 19 Buy
2002 Winston Churchill: A Life(By: John Keegan) POoPLB / 20 Buy
2002 Pope John XXIII(By: Thomas Cahill) POoPLB / 21 Buy
2002 Charles Dickens POoPLB / 22 Buy
2002 Elvis Presley(By: Bobbie Ann Mason) POoPLB / 23 Buy
2003 Good Faith POoSN / 8 Buy
2003 Saint Therese of Lisieux(By: Kathryn Harrison) POoPLB / 24 Buy
2003 Robert E. Lee(By: Roy Blount Jr.) POoPLB / 25 Buy
2004 A Year At the Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money And Luck POoNB / 4 Buy
2004 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life(By: Ada Louise Huxtable) POoPLB / 26 Buy
2004 George Herbert Walker Bush(By: Tom Wicker) POoPLB / 27 Buy
2005 Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel POoNB / 5 Buy
2006 Napoleon(By: Paul Johnson) POoPLB / 28 Buy
2007 Ten Days in the Hills POoSN / 9 Buy
2007 Julia Child(By: Laura Shapiro) POoPLB / 29 Buy
2008 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel POoNB / 6 Buy
2008 Joan of Arc(By: Mary Gordon) POoPLB / 30 Buy
2008 Martin Luther(By: Martin E. Marty) POoPLB / 31 Buy
2009 The Georges and the Jewels / Nobody's Horse POoHOOVRB / 1 Buy
2010 A Good Horse / Secret Horse POoHOOVRB / 2 Buy
2010 The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer POoNB / 7 Buy
2010 Private Life POoSN / 10 Buy
2011 True Blue / Mystery Horse POoHOOVRB / 3 Buy
2011 Branch Rickey: A Life(By: Jimmy Breslin) POoPLB / 32 Buy
2012 Pie in the Sky / Champion Horse POoHOOVRB / 4 Buy
2013 Gee Whiz / Star Horse POoHOOVRB / 5 Buy
2014 Some Luck POoLHYAFSB / 1 Buy
2014 An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers(With: Dave Eggers) POoNB / 8 Buy
2015 Early Warning POoLHYAFSB / 2 Buy
2015 Golden Age POoLHYAFSB / 3 Buy
2016 Lily POoSS / 1 Buy
2016 Twenty Yawns POoSN / 11 Buy
2018 The Way the World Ends(By: Jess Walter) POoWCB / 1 Buy
2018 Riding Lessons POoEaNB / 1 Buy
2018 Boca Raton(By: Lauren Groff) POoWCB / 2 Buy
2018 Controller(By: Jesse Kellerman) POoWCB / 3 Buy
2018 There's No Place Like Home(By: Edan Lepucki) POoWCB / 4 Buy
2018 Falls the Shadow(By: Skip Horack) POoWCB / 5 Buy
2018 At the Bottom of New Lake(By: Sonya Larson) POoWCB / 6 Buy
2018 The Hillside POoWCB / 7 Buy
2019 Saddles & Secrets POoEaNB / 2 Buy
2019 March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women(With: Carmen Maria Machado,Kate Bolick,Jenny Zhang) POoNB / 9 Buy
2020 Taking the Reins POoEaNB / 3 Buy
2020 Perestroika in Paris POoSN / 12 Buy
2022 A Dangerous Business POoSN / 13 Buy
2023 The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom POoNB / 10 Buy
2024 Lucky POoSN / 14 Buy
2026 Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton POoLNB / 2 Buy

Complete Jane Smiley Series Reading Order / browse all ->

01 Lily 2016 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 14 books / 1980-2024
01 Barn Blind 1980 Buy
02 At Paradise Gate 1981 Buy
03 Duplicate Keys 1984 Buy
04 The Greenlanders 1988 Buy
05 A Thousand Acres 1991 Buy
06 Moo 1995 Buy
07 Horse Heaven 1999 Buy
08 Good Faith 2003 Buy
09 Ten Days in the Hills 2007 Buy
10 Private Life 2010 Buy
11 Twenty Yawns 2016 Buy
12 Perestroika in Paris 2020 Buy
13 A Dangerous Business 2022 Buy
14 Lucky 2024 Buy
Penguin Lives Reading Order 32 books / 1960-2011
01 Abraham Lincoln(By: Thomas Keneally) 1960 Buy
02 Mao Zedong: A Life(By: Jonathan D. Spence) 1999 Buy
03 Mozart: A Life(By: Peter Gay) 1999 Buy
04 Marcel Proust(By: Edmund White) 1999 Buy
05 Crazy Horse(By: Larry McMurtry) 1999 Buy
06 Saint Augustine(By: Garry Wills) 1999 Buy
07 James Joyce(By: Edna O'Brien) 1999 Buy
08 Rosa Parks(By: Douglas Brinkley) 2000 Buy
09 Virginia Woolf(By: Nigel Nicolson) 2000 Buy
10 Woodrow Wilson(By: Louis Auchincloss) 2000 Buy
11 Herman Melville(By: Elizabeth Hardwick) 2000 Buy
12 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life(By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2000 Buy
13 Dante(By: R.W.B. Lewis) 2001 Buy
14 Jane Austen(By: Carol Shields) 2001 Buy
15 Buddha(By: Karen Armstrong) 2001 Buy
16 Simone Weil(By: Francine du Plessix Gray) 2001 Buy
17 Andy Warhol: A Biography(By: Wayne Koestenbaum) 2001 Buy
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life(By: Marshall Frady) 2001 Buy
19 Joseph Smith(By: Robert V. Remini) 2002 Buy
20 Winston Churchill: A Life(By: John Keegan) 2002 Buy
21 Pope John XXIII(By: Thomas Cahill) 2002 Buy
22 Charles Dickens 2002 Buy
23 Elvis Presley(By: Bobbie Ann Mason) 2002 Buy
24 Saint Therese of Lisieux(By: Kathryn Harrison) 2003 Buy
25 Robert E. Lee(By: Roy Blount Jr.) 2003 Buy
26 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life(By: Ada Louise Huxtable) 2004 Buy
27 George Herbert Walker Bush(By: Tom Wicker) 2004 Buy
28 Napoleon(By: Paul Johnson) 2006 Buy
29 Julia Child(By: Laura Shapiro) 2007 Buy
30 Joan of Arc(By: Mary Gordon) 2008 Buy
31 Martin Luther(By: Martin E. Marty) 2008 Buy
32 Branch Rickey: A Life(By: Jimmy Breslin) 2011 Buy
Ellen and Ned Reading Order 3 books / 2018-2020
01 Riding Lessons 2018 Buy
02 Saddles & Secrets 2019 Buy
03 Taking the Reins 2020 Buy
Collections Reading Order 2 books / 1987-1989
01 The Age of Grief 1987 Buy
02 Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas 1989 Buy
01 The Georges and the Jewels / Nobody's Horse 2009 Buy
02 A Good Horse / Secret Horse 2010 Buy
03 True Blue / Mystery Horse 2011 Buy
04 Pie in the Sky / Champion Horse 2012 Buy
05 Gee Whiz / Star Horse 2013 Buy
Warmer Collection Reading Order 7 books / 2018-2018
01 The Way the World Ends(By: Jess Walter) 2018 Buy
02 Boca Raton(By: Lauren Groff) 2018 Buy
03 Controller(By: Jesse Kellerman) 2018 Buy
04 There's No Place Like Home(By: Edan Lepucki) 2018 Buy
05 Falls the Shadow(By: Skip Horack) 2018 Buy
06 At the Bottom of New Lake(By: Sonya Larson) 2018 Buy
07 The Hillside 2018 Buy
Lidie Newton Reading Order 2 books / 1998-2026
01 The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton 1998 Buy
02 Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton 2026 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 9 books / 1200-2023
01 The Sagas of Icelanders 1200 Buy
02 Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains 1987 Buy
04 A Year At the Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money And Luck 2004 Buy
05 Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel 2005 Buy
06 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel 2008 Buy
07 The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer 2010 Buy
08 An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers(With: Dave Eggers) 2014 Buy
09 March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women(With: Carmen Maria Machado,Kate Bolick,Jenny Zhang) 2019 Buy
10 The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom 2023 Buy
01 Some Luck 2014 Buy
02 Early Warning 2015 Buy
03 Golden Age 2015 Buy

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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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