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Lois Lowry Books in Order

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

Updated 2026-07-11 / 95 books / 11 series

American author Lois Lowry is best known for *The Giver* and the Newbery Medal-winning *Number the Stars*. Her books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide. This page provides the Lois Lowry books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Lois Lowry Books in Chronological Order

1977 A Summer to Die POoSN / 1 Buy
1978 Anastasia Krupnik POoAKB / 1 Buy
1978 Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye POoSN / 2 Buy
1980 Autumn Street POoSN / 3 Buy
1981 Anastasia Again! POoAKB / 2 Buy
1982 Anastasia at Your Service POoAKB / 3 Buy
1983 The 100th Thing About Caroline POoJT / 1 Buy
1983 Taking Care of Terrific POoSN / 4 Buy
1984 Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst / Off Her Rocker POoAKB / 4 Buy
1984 Us and Uncle Fraud POoSN / 5 Buy
1985 Switcharound POoJT / 2 Buy
1985 Anastasia on Her Own POoAKB / 5 Buy
1986 Anastasia Has the Answers POoAKB / 6 Buy
1987 Rabble Starkey POoSN / 6 Buy
1987 Road Ahead POoSN / 7 Buy
1987 Anastasia's Chosen Career POoAKB / 7 Buy
1988 All About Sam POoSKB / 1 Buy
1989 Number the Stars POoSN / 8 Buy
1989 New Windmills POoSN / 9 Buy
1990 Your Move, J.P.! POoJT / 3 Buy
1991 Anastasia at This Address POoAKB / 8 Buy
1992 Attaboy, Sam! POoSKB / 2 Buy
1993 The Giver POoTGB / 1 Buy
1993 Handle with Care POoSN / 10 Buy
1995 Anastasia, Absolutely POoAKB / 9 Buy
1996 When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864(By: Barry Denenberg) POoDAB / 1 Buy
1996 A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620(By: Kathryn Lasky) POoDAB / 2 Buy
1996 Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart(By: Kristiana Gregory) POoDAB / 3 Buy
1996 See You Around, Sam! POoSKB / 3 Buy
1997 I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865(By: Joyce Hansen) POoDAB / 4 Buy
1997 A Picture Of Freedom(By: Patricia McKissack) POoDAB / 5 Buy
1997 Stay!: Keeper's Story POoSN / 11 Buy
1998 Looking Back: A Book of Memories POoNB / 1 Buy
1998 Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941(By: Barry Denenberg) POoDAB / 6 Buy
1998 Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903(By: Kathryn Lasky) POoDAB / 7 Buy
1998 West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi(By: Jim Murphy) POoDAB / 8 Buy
1998 Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763(By: Mary Pope Osborne) POoDAB / 9 Buy
1998 A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence(By: Sherry Garland) POoDAB / 10 Buy
1998 Stationery Pack(By: Patricia McKissack) POoDAB / 11 Buy
1998 Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912(By: Ellen Emerson White) POoDAB / 12 Buy
1999 Zooman Sam POoSKB / 4 Buy
1999 The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868(By: Kristiana Gregory) POoDAB / 13 Buy
1999 My Heart is on the Ground(By: Ann Rinaldi) POoDAB / 14 Buy
1999 The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl(By: Ann Turner) POoDAB / 15 Buy
1999 A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin(By: Karen Hesse) POoDAB / 16 Buy
2000 Gathering Blue POoTGB / 2 Buy
2000 Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North(By: Patricia McKissack) POoDAB / 17 Buy
2000 A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) POoDAB / 18 Buy
2000 My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941(By: Mary Pope Osborne) POoDAB / 19 Buy
2000 One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938(By: Barry Denenberg) POoDAB / 20 Buy
2001 Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932(By: Kathryn Lasky) POoDAB / 21 Buy
2001 Valley of the Moon: The Diary of Mar’a Rosal’a de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,(By: Sherry Garland) POoDAB / 22 Buy
2001 Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849(By: Kristiana Gregory) POoDAB / 23 Buy
2001 My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881(By: Jim Murphy) POoDAB / 24 Buy
2002 Gooney Bird Greene POoGBGB / 1 Buy
2002 When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer(By: Beth Seidel Levine) POoDAB / 25 Buy
2002 My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck(By: Kathryn Lasky) POoDAB / 26 Buy
2002 A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917(By: Kathryn Lasky) POoDAB / 27 Buy
2002 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?(By: Ellen Emerson White) POoDAB / 28 Buy
2002 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932(By: Barry Denenberg) POoDAB / 29 Buy
2002 Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935(By: Katelan Janke) POoDAB / 30 Buy
2003 The Silent Boy POoSN / 12 Buy
2003 So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847(By: Barry Denenberg) POoDAB / 31 Buy
2003 Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson(By: Ann Turner) POoDAB / 32 Buy
2003 Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota(By: Marion Dane Bauer) POoDAB / 33 Buy
2003 All the Stars in the Sky(By: Megan McDonald) POoDAB / 34 Buy
2004 Messenger POoTGB / 3 Buy
2004 Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763(By: Patricia McKissack) POoDAB / 35 Buy
2004 Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909(By: Deborah Hopkinson) POoDAB / 36 Buy
2004 I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691(By: Lisa Rowe Fraustino) POoDAB / 37 Buy
2005 Gooney Bird and the Room Mother POoGBGB / 2 Buy
2006 Gossamer POoSN / 13 Buy
2007 Gooney the Fabulous POoGBGB / 3 Buy
2008 The Willoughbys POoTWB / 1 Buy
2009 Crow Call POoPB / 1 Buy
2009 Gooney Bird Is So Absurd POoGBGB / 4 Buy
2010 The Birthday Ball POoSN / 14 Buy
2010 The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941(By: Kirby Larson) POoDAB / 38 Buy
2011 Gooney Bird on the Map POoGBGB / 5 Buy
2011 Bless This Mouse POoSN / 15 Buy
2011 Like the Willow Tree POoDAB / 39 Buy
2011 Cannons at Dawn(By: Kristiana Gregory) POoDAB / 40 Buy
2011 With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954(By: Andrea Davis Pinkney) POoDAB / 41 Buy
2012 Son POoTGB / 4 Buy
2012 Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880(By: Susan Patron) POoDAB / 42 Buy
2013 Gooney Bird and All Her Charms POoGBGB / 6 Buy
2013 Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) POoDAB / 43 Buy
2013 A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906(By: Judy Blundell) POoDAB / 44 Buy
2016 Rania Matar POoGBGB / 7 Buy
2019 The Giver(With: P. Craig Russell) POoGGN / 1 Buy
2020 The Willoughbys Return POoTWB / 2 Buy
2020 On the Horizon POoNB / 2 Buy
2023 The Windeby Puzzle POoSN / 16 Buy
2024 Tree. Table. Book. POoSN / 17 Buy
2026 Building 903 POoSN / 18 Buy

Lois Lowry Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 The Giver(With: P. Craig Russell) 2019 Buy
01 All About Sam 1988 Buy
02 Attaboy, Sam! 1992 Buy
03 See You Around, Sam! 1996 Buy
04 Zooman Sam 1999 Buy
01 Gooney Bird Greene 2002 Buy
02 Gooney Bird and the Room Mother 2005 Buy
03 Gooney the Fabulous 2007 Buy
04 Gooney Bird Is So Absurd 2009 Buy
05 Gooney Bird on the Map 2011 Buy
06 Gooney Bird and All Her Charms 2013 Buy
07 Rania Matar 2016 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 18 books / 1977-2026
01 A Summer to Die 1977 Buy
02 Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye 1978 Buy
03 Autumn Street 1980 Buy
04 Taking Care of Terrific 1983 Buy
05 Us and Uncle Fraud 1984 Buy
06 Rabble Starkey 1987 Buy
07 Road Ahead 1987 Buy
08 Number the Stars 1989 Buy
09 New Windmills 1989 Buy
10 Handle with Care 1993 Buy
11 Stay!: Keeper's Story 1997 Buy
12 The Silent Boy 2003 Buy
13 Gossamer 2006 Buy
14 The Birthday Ball 2010 Buy
15 Bless This Mouse 2011 Buy
16 The Windeby Puzzle 2023 Buy
17 Tree. Table. Book. 2024 Buy
18 Building 903 2026 Buy
01 The Willoughbys 2008 Buy
02 The Willoughbys Return 2020 Buy
01 When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864(By: Barry Denenberg) 1996 Buy
02 A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620(By: Kathryn Lasky) 1996 Buy
03 Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart(By: Kristiana Gregory) 1996 Buy
04 I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865(By: Joyce Hansen) 1997 Buy
05 A Picture Of Freedom(By: Patricia McKissack) 1997 Buy
06 Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941(By: Barry Denenberg) 1998 Buy
07 Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903(By: Kathryn Lasky) 1998 Buy
08 West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi(By: Jim Murphy) 1998 Buy
09 Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763(By: Mary Pope Osborne) 1998 Buy
10 A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence(By: Sherry Garland) 1998 Buy
11 Stationery Pack(By: Patricia McKissack) 1998 Buy
12 Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912(By: Ellen Emerson White) 1998 Buy
13 The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868(By: Kristiana Gregory) 1999 Buy
14 My Heart is on the Ground(By: Ann Rinaldi) 1999 Buy
15 The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl(By: Ann Turner) 1999 Buy
16 A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin(By: Karen Hesse) 1999 Buy
17 Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North(By: Patricia McKissack) 2000 Buy
18 A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) 2000 Buy
19 My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941(By: Mary Pope Osborne) 2000 Buy
20 One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938(By: Barry Denenberg) 2000 Buy
21 Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2001 Buy
22 Valley of the Moon: The Diary of Mar’a Rosal’a de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,(By: Sherry Garland) 2001 Buy
23 Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849(By: Kristiana Gregory) 2001 Buy
24 My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881(By: Jim Murphy) 2001 Buy
25 When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer(By: Beth Seidel Levine) 2002 Buy
26 My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2002 Buy
27 A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2002 Buy
28 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?(By: Ellen Emerson White) 2002 Buy
29 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932(By: Barry Denenberg) 2002 Buy
30 Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935(By: Katelan Janke) 2002 Buy
31 So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847(By: Barry Denenberg) 2003 Buy
32 Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson(By: Ann Turner) 2003 Buy
33 Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota(By: Marion Dane Bauer) 2003 Buy
34 All the Stars in the Sky(By: Megan McDonald) 2003 Buy
35 Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763(By: Patricia McKissack) 2004 Buy
36 Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909(By: Deborah Hopkinson) 2004 Buy
37 I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691(By: Lisa Rowe Fraustino) 2004 Buy
38 The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941(By: Kirby Larson) 2010 Buy
39 Like the Willow Tree 2011 Buy
40 Cannons at Dawn(By: Kristiana Gregory) 2011 Buy
41 With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954(By: Andrea Davis Pinkney) 2011 Buy
42 Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880(By: Susan Patron) 2012 Buy
43 Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose(By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti) 2013 Buy
44 A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906(By: Judy Blundell) 2013 Buy
01 Crow Call 2009 Buy
01 Anastasia Krupnik 1978 Buy
02 Anastasia Again! 1981 Buy
03 Anastasia at Your Service 1982 Buy
04 Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst / Off Her Rocker 1984 Buy
05 Anastasia on Her Own 1985 Buy
06 Anastasia Has the Answers 1986 Buy
07 Anastasia's Chosen Career 1987 Buy
08 Anastasia at This Address 1991 Buy
09 Anastasia, Absolutely 1995 Buy
01 The 100th Thing About Caroline 1983 Buy
02 Switcharound 1985 Buy
03 Your Move, J.P.! 1990 Buy
The Giver Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1993-2012
01 The Giver 1993 Buy
02 Gathering Blue 2000 Buy
03 Messenger 2004 Buy
04 Son 2012 Buy
01 Looking Back: A Book of Memories 1998 Buy
02 On the Horizon 2020 Buy

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