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Jim Harrison Books in Order

Find every Jim Harrison book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 142 books / 9 series

American author Jim Harrison is best known for his epic novella *Legends of the Fall* and the *Brown Dog* series. A prolific writer of fiction, poetry, and essays, his work earned him election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This page provides the Jim Harrison books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Jim Harrison Books in Chronological Order

1965 Plain Song POoPB / 1 Buy
1968 Locations POoPB / 2 Buy
1969 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges POoLCB / 1 Buy
1971 Wolf POoSN / 1 Buy
1971 Outlyer and Ghazals POoPB / 3 Buy
1973 A Good Day to Die POoSN / 2 Buy
1973 Letters to Yesenin POoPB / 4 Buy
1976 Farmer POoSN / 3 Buy
1979 Legends of the Fall POoSN / 4 Buy
1981 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz POoLCB / 2 Buy
1982 Natural World POoPB / 5 Buy
1982 Warlock POoSN / 5 Buy
1982 Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 POoPB / 6 Buy
1983 Conversations with Graham Greene POoLCB / 3 Buy
1984 Sundog POoSN / 6 Buy
1985 Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 4 Buy
1985 Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 5 Buy
1985 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer POoLCB / 6 Buy
1985 Conversations with William Styron POoLCB / 7 Buy
1986 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley POoLCB / 8 Buy
1986 Conversations with Lillian Hellman POoLCB / 9 Buy
1986 Conversations with Tennessee Williams POoLCB / 10 Buy
1986 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway POoLCB / 11 Buy
1987 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter POoLCB / 12 Buy
1987 Truman Capote: Conversations POoLCB / 13 Buy
1987 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor POoLCB / 14 Buy
1987 Conversations with Peter Taylor POoLCB / 15 Buy
1987 Conversations with Arthur Miller POoLCB / 16 Buy
1988 Dalva POoDB / 1 Buy
1988 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut POoLCB / 17 Buy
1988 Conversations with Edward Albee POoLCB / 18 Buy
1988 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell POoLCB / 19 Buy
1988 Conversations with Norman Mailer POoLCB / 20 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robert Graves POoLCB / 21 Buy
1989 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates POoLCB / 22 Buy
1989 Conversations with Shelby Foote POoLCB / 23 Buy
1989 Conversations with Robertson Davies POoLCB / 24 Buy
1989 Conversations with James Baldwin POoLCB / 25 Buy
1990 The Woman Lit by Fireflies POoSS / 1 Buy
1990 The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems POoPB / 7 Buy
1990 Conversations with John Gardner POoLCB / 26 Buy
1990 Conversations with Richard Wilbur POoLCB / 27 Buy
1990 Conversations with Tom Wolfe POoLCB / 28 Buy
1990 Conversations with Raymond Carver POoLCB / 29 Buy
1990 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill POoLCB / 30 Buy
1991 Conversations with Reynolds Price POoLCB / 31 Buy
1991 Conversations with Bernard Malamud POoLCB / 32 Buy
1991 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer POoLCB / 33 Buy
1992 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni POoLCB / 34 Buy
1992 Conversations With Thornton Wilder POoLCB / 35 Buy
1992 Conversations with Robert Coles POoLCB / 36 Buy
1992 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher POoLCB / 37 Buy
1993 Just Before Dark POoNB / 1 Buy
1993 More Conversations with Walker Percy POoLCB / 38 Buy
1993 Conversations with Richard Wright POoLCB / 39 Buy
1993 Conversations with Paul Bowles POoLCB / 40 Buy
1994 Julip POoSS / 2 Buy
1994 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris POoLCB / 41 Buy
1994 Conversations with Amiri Baraka POoLCB / 42 Buy
1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison POoLCB / 43 Buy
1994 Conversations with Saul Bellow POoLCB / 44 Buy
1994 Conversations with Henry Miller POoLCB / 45 Buy
1995 Conversations With S.J. Perelman POoLCB / 46 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ernest Gaines POoLCB / 47 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ralph Ellison POoLCB / 48 Buy
1995 Conversations with Chester Himes POoLCB / 49 Buy
1995 Conversations with Susan Sontag POoLCB / 50 Buy
1995 Conversations with Ishmael Reed POoLCB / 51 Buy
1996 After Ikkyu and Other Poems POoPB / 8 Buy
1996 Conversations with Derek Walcott POoLCB / 52 Buy
1996 More Conversations with Eudora Welty POoLCB / 53 Buy
1996 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop POoLCB / 54 Buy
1996 Conversations with Pauline Kael POoLCB / 55 Buy
1997 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul POoLCB / 56 Buy
1997 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday POoLCB / 57 Buy
1997 Conversations with Chinua Achebe POoLCB / 58 Buy
1998 The Road Home POoDB / 2 Buy
1998 The Shape of the Journey POoPB / 9 Buy
1998 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston POoLCB / 59 Buy
1998 Conversations with Denise Levertov POoLCB / 60 Buy
1999 Conversations With William Faulkner POoLCB / 61 Buy
1999 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow POoLCB / 62 Buy
1999 Conversations With John Fowles POoLCB / 63 Buy
2000 The Beast God Forgot to Invent POoSS / 3 Buy
2000 The Boy Who Ran to the Woods POoSN / 7 Buy
2000 Conversations with Salman Rushdie POoLCB / 64 Buy
2000 Conversations with William S. Burroughs POoLCB / 65 Buy
2000 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko POoLCB / 66 Buy
2001 The Raw and the Cooked POoNB / 2 Buy
2001 Conversations with Chaim Potok POoLCB / 67 Buy
2001 Conversations with Richard Ford POoLCB / 68 Buy
2001 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood POoLCB / 69 Buy
2002 Off to the Side POoNB / 3 Buy
2002 Conversations with Mary Gordon POoLCB / 70 Buy
2002 Conversations with Jim Harrison POoLCB / 71 Buy
2002 Conversations with Clarence Major POoLCB / 72 Buy
2002 Conversations with Margaret Walker POoLCB / 73 Buy
2002 Conversations with Erica Jong POoLCB / 74 Buy
2002 Elie Wiesel: Conversations POoLCB / 75 Buy
2003 Braided Creek POoPB / 10 Buy
2003 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations POoLCB / 76 Buy
2003 Conversations with Rita Dove POoLCB / 77 Buy
2003 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald POoLCB / 78 Buy
2003 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks POoLCB / 79 Buy
2003 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann POoLCB / 80 Buy
2004 True North POoTNB / 1 Buy
2004 Conversations with Gloria Naylor POoLCB / 81 Buy
2004 Conversations with Audre Lorde POoLCB / 82 Buy
2004 Conversations with Ray Bradbury POoLCB / 83 Buy
2004 Conversations With John le Carr’ POoLCB / 84 Buy
2005 The Summer He Didn't Die POoSS / 4 Buy
2005 Conversations with Isaac Asimov POoLCB / 85 Buy
2005 Conversations with Don DeLillo POoLCB / 86 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gore Vidal POoLCB / 87 Buy
2005 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren POoLCB / 88 Buy
2005 Conversations with Jack Kerouac POoLCB / 89 Buy
2005 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez POoLCB / 90 Buy
2006 Saving Daylight POoPB / 11 Buy
2006 Conversations with Thomas McGuane POoLCB / 91 Buy
2007 Returning to Earth POoTNB / 2 Buy
2007 Conversations with Larry Brown POoLCB / 92 Buy
2007 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez POoLCB / 93 Buy
2007 Conversations with Wendell Berry POoLCB / 94 Buy
2007 Conversations with Leon Forrest POoLCB / 95 Buy
2008 The English Major POoSN / 8 Buy
2008 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro POoLCB / 96 Buy
2009 The Farmer's Daughter POoSS / 5 Buy
2009 In Search of Small Gods POoPB / 12 Buy
2010 The Etiquette of Freedom POoNB / 4 Buy
2011 Great Leader POoDSB / 1 Buy
2011 Songs of Unreason POoPB / 13 Buy
2013 The River Swimmer POoSS / 6 Buy
2013 Brown Dog POoSS / 7 Buy
2013 Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems(With: Tom Hennen) POoPB / 14 Buy
2015 The Big Seven POoDSB / 2 Buy
2015 Dead Man's Float POoPB / 15 Buy
2016 The Ancient Minstrel POoSS / 8 Buy
2017 A Really Big Lunch POoNB / 5 Buy
2019 Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems POoPB / 16 Buy
2020 Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals POoPB / 17 Buy
2022 The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 POoC / 1 Buy
2023 Conversations with Jimmy Carter POoLCB / 97 Buy

Jim Harrison Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

True North Books in Reading Order 2 books / 2004-2007
01 True North 2004 Buy
02 Returning to Earth 2007 Buy
01 The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 2022 Buy
01 Great Leader 2011 Buy
02 The Big Seven 2015 Buy
01 Just Before Dark 1993 Buy
02 The Raw and the Cooked 2001 Buy
03 Off to the Side 2002 Buy
04 The Etiquette of Freedom 2010 Buy
05 A Really Big Lunch 2017 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 8 books / 1971-2008
01 Wolf 1971 Buy
02 A Good Day to Die 1973 Buy
03 Farmer 1976 Buy
04 Legends of the Fall 1979 Buy
05 Warlock 1982 Buy
06 Sundog 1984 Buy
07 The Boy Who Ran to the Woods 2000 Buy
08 The English Major 2008 Buy
01 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969 Buy
02 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981 Buy
03 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983 Buy
04 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985 Buy
05 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985 Buy
06 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985 Buy
07 Conversations with William Styron 1985 Buy
08 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986 Buy
09 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986 Buy
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986 Buy
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986 Buy
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987 Buy
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987 Buy
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987 Buy
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987 Buy
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987 Buy
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988 Buy
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988 Buy
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988 Buy
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988 Buy
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989 Buy
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989 Buy
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989 Buy
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989 Buy
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989 Buy
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990 Buy
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990 Buy
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990 Buy
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990 Buy
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990 Buy
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991 Buy
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991 Buy
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991 Buy
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992 Buy
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992 Buy
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992 Buy
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992 Buy
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993 Buy
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993 Buy
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993 Buy
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994 Buy
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994 Buy
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994 Buy
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994 Buy
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994 Buy
46 Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995 Buy
47 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995 Buy
48 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995 Buy
49 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995 Buy
50 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995 Buy
51 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995 Buy
52 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996 Buy
53 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996 Buy
54 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996 Buy
55 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996 Buy
56 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997 Buy
57 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997 Buy
58 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997 Buy
59 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998 Buy
60 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998 Buy
61 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999 Buy
62 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999 Buy
63 Conversations With John Fowles 1999 Buy
64 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000 Buy
65 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000 Buy
66 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000 Buy
67 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001 Buy
68 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001 Buy
69 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001 Buy
70 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002 Buy
71 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002 Buy
72 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002 Buy
73 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002 Buy
74 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002 Buy
75 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002 Buy
76 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003 Buy
77 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003 Buy
78 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003 Buy
79 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003 Buy
80 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003 Buy
81 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004 Buy
82 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004 Buy
83 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004 Buy
84 Conversations With John le Carr’ 2004 Buy
85 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005 Buy
86 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005 Buy
87 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005 Buy
88 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005 Buy
89 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005 Buy
90 Conversations with Gabriel Garc’a M’rquez 2005 Buy
91 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006 Buy
92 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007 Buy
93 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007 Buy
94 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007 Buy
95 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007 Buy
96 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008 Buy
97 Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023 Buy
Dalva Books in Reading Order 2 books / 1988-1998
01 Dalva 1988 Buy
02 The Road Home 1998 Buy
01 The Woman Lit by Fireflies 1990 Buy
02 Julip 1994 Buy
03 The Beast God Forgot to Invent 2000 Buy
04 The Summer He Didn't Die 2005 Buy
05 The Farmer's Daughter 2009 Buy
06 The River Swimmer 2013 Buy
07 Brown Dog 2013 Buy
08 The Ancient Minstrel 2016 Buy
Poetry Books in Reading Order 17 books / 1965-2020
01 Plain Song 1965 Buy
02 Locations 1968 Buy
03 Outlyer and Ghazals 1971 Buy
04 Letters to Yesenin 1973 Buy
05 Natural World 1982 Buy
06 Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 1982 Buy
07 The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems 1990 Buy
08 After Ikkyu and Other Poems 1996 Buy
09 The Shape of the Journey 1998 Buy
10 Braided Creek 2003 Buy
11 Saving Daylight 2006 Buy
12 In Search of Small Gods 2009 Buy
13 Songs of Unreason 2011 Buy
14 Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems(With: Tom Hennen) 2013 Buy
15 Dead Man's Float 2015 Buy
16 Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems 2019 Buy
17 Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals 2020 Buy

Where to start with Jim Harrison

What is the best order to read Jim Harrison books?

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.

Are standalone books and series both included?

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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