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Louisa May Alcott Books in Order

Find every Louisa May Alcott book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 104 books / 8 series

American author best known for the *Little Women* series. Her classic novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and cemented her legacy as a pioneer of domestic fiction. This page provides the Louisa May Alcott books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Louisa May Alcott Books in Chronological Order

1849 The Inheritance POoSN / 1 Buy
1854 Flower Fables POoC / 1 Buy
1860 A Modern Cinderella POoC / 2 Buy
1862 Pauline's Passion and Punishment POoSS / 1 Buy
1863 Civil War Hospital Sketches POoNB / 1 Buy
1863 Hospital Sketches POoNB / 2 Buy
1864 Moods POoSN / 2 Buy
1864 On Picket Duty, and Other Tales POoC / 3 Buy
1865 A Marble Woman POoC / 4 Buy
1866 Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power POoNB / 3 Buy
1867 The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation POoSS / 2 Buy
1867 Behind a Mask POoC / 5 Buy
1868 Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy POoLWB / 1 Buy
1869 Good Wives POoLWB / 2 Buy
1869 Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse POoSS / 3 Buy
1869 An Old-Fashioned Girl POoSN / 3 Buy
1871 Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys POoLWB / 3 Buy
1872 Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag POoAJSBB / 1 Buy
1872 Shawl-Straps POoAJSBB / 2 Buy
1873 Transcendental Wild Oats POoC / 1 Buy
1873 Cupid and Chow Chow POoAJSBB / 3 Buy
1873 Work POoSN / 4 Buy
1875 Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill POoECB / 1 Buy
1876 Rose in Bloom POoECB / 2 Buy
1877 My Girls POoAJSBB / 4 Buy
1877 A Modern Mephistopheles POoSN / 5 Buy
1878 Under the Lilacs POoSN / 6 Buy
1879 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. POoAJSBB / 5 Buy
1880 Jack & Jill POoSN / 7 Buy
1882 A Country Christmas POoSS / 4 Buy
1882 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving POoAJSBB / 6 Buy
1882 Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories POoC / 6 Buy
1882 Proverb Stories POoC / 7 Buy
1884 Spinning-Wheel Stories POoC / 8 Buy
1886 Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out POoLWB / 4 Buy
1886 Lulu's Library POoSN / 8 Buy
1887 Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair POoSS / 5 Buy
1887 A Garland for Girls POoC / 9 Buy
1889 Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals POoNB / 4 Buy
1889 A Whisper in the Dark POoC / 10 Buy
1899 Marjorie's Three Gifts POoC / 2 Buy
1900 Poppies and Wheat POoSS / 6 Buy
1908 The Louisa Alcott Reader POoC / 11 Buy
1968 Glimpses of Louisa POoC / 12 Buy
1968 Short Stories POoC / 13 Buy
1976 Trudel's Siege POoSS / 7 Buy
1976 Plots and Counterplots POoC / 14 Buy
1978 Diana & Persis POoC / 3 Buy
1980 An Intimate Anthology POoC / 15 Buy
1980 Selected Fiction POoC / 16 Buy
1984 Hidden Louisa May Alcott POoC / 17 Buy
1986 Works of Louisa May Alcott POoC / 18 Buy
1987 The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott POoNB / 5 Buy
1988 A Double Life POoC / 19 Buy
1989 The Journals of Louisa May Alcott(With: Daniel Shealy) POoNB / 6 Buy
1991 Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott(With: Daniel Shealy) POoC / 20 Buy
1992 Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories(With: Daniel Shealy) POoC / 21 Buy
1993 The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 POoNB / 7 Buy
1993 The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott POoC / 22 Buy
1995 A Long Fatal Love Chase POoSN / 9 Buy
1995 Louisa May Alcott Unmasked POoC / 23 Buy
1995 Modern Magic POoC / 24 Buy
1997 Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery POoNB / 8 Buy
1999 The Quiet Little Woman POoC / 25 Buy
2000 The Poems of Louisa May Alcott POoC / 26 Buy
2000 The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 POoC / 27 Buy
2001 Kate's Choice POoC / 4 Buy
2001 The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott POoNB / 9 Buy
2002 Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury POoC / 28 Buy
2004 Scarlet Stockings POoSS / 8 Buy
2004 The Brownie and the PrincessOther Stories POoC / 29 Buy
2005 The Baron's Gloves POoSS / 9 Buy
2006 Louisa May Alcott's Civil War POoNB / 10 Buy
2007 Silver Pitchers and Independence POoSS / 10 Buy
2007 Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island POoC / 30 Buy
2008 Little Button Rose POoSS / 11 Buy
2008 Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters' Letters from Europe, 1870-1871(With: Daniel Shealy,May Alcott Nieriker) POoNB / 11 Buy
2008 The Candy Country and How They Ran Away POoC / 31 Buy
2009 Morning-Glories POoC / 32 Buy
2010 Debby's Debut POoC / 5 Buy
2010 Love and Self Love POoC / 6 Buy
2010 The Mysterious Key and What It Opened POoSS / 12 Buy
2012 The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott POoC / 33 Buy
2013 The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts POoSS / 13 Buy
2013 The Death of John POoSS / 14 Buy
2013 The Cross on the Old Church Tower POoSS / 15 Buy
2014 On Picket Duty POoSS / 16 Buy
2015 Doctor Dorn's Revenge POoSS / 17 Buy
2015 Effie's Christmas Dream POoSS / 18 Buy
2015 The Dolls' Journey POoSS / 19 Buy
2016 The Blind Lark POoSS / 20 Buy
2016 Comic Tragedies POoSS / 21 Buy
2016 How They Ran Away POoSS / 22 Buy
2016 Sophie's Secret POoSS / 23 Buy
2016 Lilybell and Thistledown POoSS / 24 Buy
2017 The Brownie and the Princess POoSS / 25 Buy
2017 Sisters POoC / 34 Buy
2018 Kitty's Class Day POoSS / 26 Buy
2018 Pansies and Water-Lilies POoSS / 27 Buy
2018 A Vintage Christmas POoC / 35 Buy
2019 The Mysterious Key POoSS / 28 Buy
2019 Lost in a Pyramid POoSS / 29 Buy
2019 May Flowers POoC / 36 Buy
2019 A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories POoC / 37 Buy

Louisa May Alcott Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

Standalone Books in Reading Order 9 books / 1849-1995
01 The Inheritance 1849 Buy
02 Moods 1864 Buy
03 An Old-Fashioned Girl 1869 Buy
04 Work 1873 Buy
05 A Modern Mephistopheles 1877 Buy
06 Under the Lilacs 1878 Buy
07 Jack & Jill 1880 Buy
08 Lulu's Library 1886 Buy
09 A Long Fatal Love Chase 1995 Buy
01 Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy 1868 Buy
02 Good Wives 1869 Buy
03 Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys 1871 Buy
04 Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out 1886 Buy
01 Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill 1875 Buy
02 Rose in Bloom 1876 Buy
Chapbooks Books in Reading Order 6 books / 1873-2010
01 Transcendental Wild Oats 1873 Buy
02 Marjorie's Three Gifts 1899 Buy
03 Diana & Persis 1978 Buy
04 Kate's Choice 2001 Buy
05 Debby's Debut 2010 Buy
06 Love and Self Love 2010 Buy
01 Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag 1872 Buy
02 Shawl-Straps 1872 Buy
03 Cupid and Chow Chow 1873 Buy
04 My Girls 1877 Buy
05 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. 1879 Buy
06 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving 1882 Buy
Collections Books in Reading Order 37 books / 1854-2019
01 Flower Fables 1854 Buy
02 A Modern Cinderella 1860 Buy
03 On Picket Duty, and Other Tales 1864 Buy
04 A Marble Woman 1865 Buy
05 Behind a Mask 1867 Buy
06 Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories 1882 Buy
07 Proverb Stories 1882 Buy
08 Spinning-Wheel Stories 1884 Buy
09 A Garland for Girls 1887 Buy
10 A Whisper in the Dark 1889 Buy
11 The Louisa Alcott Reader 1908 Buy
12 Glimpses of Louisa 1968 Buy
13 Short Stories 1968 Buy
14 Plots and Counterplots 1976 Buy
15 An Intimate Anthology 1980 Buy
16 Selected Fiction 1980 Buy
17 Hidden Louisa May Alcott 1984 Buy
18 Works of Louisa May Alcott 1986 Buy
19 A Double Life 1988 Buy
20 Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott(With: Daniel Shealy) 1991 Buy
21 Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories(With: Daniel Shealy) 1992 Buy
22 The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott 1993 Buy
23 Louisa May Alcott Unmasked 1995 Buy
24 Modern Magic 1995 Buy
25 The Quiet Little Woman 1999 Buy
26 The Poems of Louisa May Alcott 2000 Buy
27 The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 2000 Buy
28 Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury 2002 Buy
29 The Brownie and the PrincessOther Stories 2004 Buy
30 Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island 2007 Buy
31 The Candy Country and How They Ran Away 2008 Buy
32 Morning-Glories 2009 Buy
33 The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott 2012 Buy
34 Sisters 2017 Buy
35 A Vintage Christmas 2018 Buy
36 May Flowers 2019 Buy
37 A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories 2019 Buy
Non-Fiction Books in Reading Order 11 books / 1863-2008
01 Civil War Hospital Sketches 1863 Buy
02 Hospital Sketches 1863 Buy
03 Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power 1866 Buy
04 Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals 1889 Buy
05 The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott 1987 Buy
06 The Journals of Louisa May Alcott(With: Daniel Shealy) 1989 Buy
07 The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 1993 Buy
08 Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery 1997 Buy
09 The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott 2001 Buy
10 Louisa May Alcott's Civil War 2006 Buy
11 Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters' Letters from Europe, 1870-1871(With: Daniel Shealy,May Alcott Nieriker) 2008 Buy
01 Pauline's Passion and Punishment 1862 Buy
02 The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treheme's Temptation 1867 Buy
03 Perilous Play, And, Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse 1869 Buy
04 A Country Christmas 1882 Buy
05 Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair 1887 Buy
06 Poppies and Wheat 1900 Buy
07 Trudel's Siege 1976 Buy
08 Scarlet Stockings 2004 Buy
09 The Baron's Gloves 2005 Buy
10 Silver Pitchers and Independence 2007 Buy
11 Little Button Rose 2008 Buy
12 The Mysterious Key and What It Opened 2010 Buy
13 The King of Clubs and the Queen of Hearts 2013 Buy
14 The Death of John 2013 Buy
15 The Cross on the Old Church Tower 2013 Buy
16 On Picket Duty 2014 Buy
17 Doctor Dorn's Revenge 2015 Buy
18 Effie's Christmas Dream 2015 Buy
19 The Dolls' Journey 2015 Buy
20 The Blind Lark 2016 Buy
21 Comic Tragedies 2016 Buy
22 How They Ran Away 2016 Buy
23 Sophie's Secret 2016 Buy
24 Lilybell and Thistledown 2016 Buy
25 The Brownie and the Princess 2017 Buy
26 Kitty's Class Day 2018 Buy
27 Pansies and Water-Lilies 2018 Buy
28 The Mysterious Key 2019 Buy
29 Lost in a Pyramid 2019 Buy

Where to start with Louisa May Alcott

What is the best order to read Louisa May Alcott 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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