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Home / Authors / Wallace Stegner Wallace Stegner American author best known for the *Angle of Repose* and the *Big Rock Candy Mountain*. A Pulitzer Prize winner and key figure in Western literature, his works shaped the conservation movement. This page provides the Wallace Stegner books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1937 Remembering Laughter POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1938 The Potter's House POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1940 On a Darkling Plain POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 1941 Desert Country(By: Edwin Corle) POoAFB · 1 Buy ↗ 1941 Short Grass Country(By: Stanley Vestal) POoAFB · 2 Buy ↗ 1941 Fire and Ice POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 1942 Mormon Country POoAFB · 3 Buy ↗ 1942 Palmetto Country(By: Stetson Kennedy) POoAFB · 4 Buy ↗ 1943 The Big Rock Candy Mountain POoBMB · 1 Buy ↗ 1944 Deep Delta Country(By: Harnett T. Kane) POoAFB · 5 Buy ↗ 1945 Golden Gate Country(By: Gertrude Atherton) POoAFB · 6 Buy ↗ 1947 Second Growth POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 1947 Big Country Texas(By: Donald Day) POoAFB · 7 Buy ↗ 1950 The Women on the Wall POoC · 1 Buy ↗ 1950 Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 1954 Beyond the Hundredth Meridian POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1955 This Is Dinosaur POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1956 The City of the Living & Other Stories POoC · 2 Buy ↗ 1961 A Shooting Star POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ 1962 Wolf Willow POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 1964 The Gathering of Zion POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 1966 Teaching the Short Story POoNB · 5 Buy ↗ 1967 All the Little Live Things POoSN · 8 Buy ↗ 1969 The Sound of Mountain Water POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 1971 Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil POoNB · 7 Buy ↗ 1971 Angle of Repose POoSN · 9 Buy ↗ 1972 The Writer's Art POoC · 3 Buy ↗ 1974 The Uneasy Chair POoNB · 8 Buy ↗ 1975 The letters of Bernard DeVoto(With: Bernard DeVoto) POoNB · 9 Buy ↗ 1976 The Spectator Bird POoSN · 10 Buy ↗ 1976 The Writer in America POoNB · 10 Buy ↗ 1979 Recapitulation POoBMB · 2 Buy ↗ 1982 One Way To Spell Man POoNB · 11 Buy ↗ 1983 Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature POoNB · 12 Buy ↗ 1985 American Places POoNB · 13 Buy ↗ 1987 Crossing to Safety POoSN · 11 Buy ↗ 1987 The American West as Living Space POoNB · 14 Buy ↗ 1988 On the Teaching of Creative Writing POoNB · 15 Buy ↗ 1990 The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner POoC · 4 Buy ↗ 1991 Wilderness at the Edge POoNB · 16 Buy ↗ 1992 Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs POoNB · 17 Buy ↗ 1998 Marking the Sparrow's Fall POoNB · 18 Buy ↗ 2002 On Teaching and Writing Fiction POoNB · 19 Buy ↗ 2007 Blue Ridge Country(By: Jean Thomas) POoAFB · 8 Buy ↗ 2007 The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner POoNB · 20 Buy ↗ 2007 The Selected Letters POoNB · 21 Buy ↗ 2008 Wallace Stegner's West POoNB · 22 Buy ↗ 2008 The Twilight of Self Reliance POoNB · 23 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of Standalone Novels 11 books · 1937–1987
01 Remembering Laughter 1937 Buy ↗ 02 The Potter's House 1938 Buy ↗ 03 On a Darkling Plain 1940 Buy ↗ 06 Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel 1950 Buy ↗ 07 A Shooting Star 1961 Buy ↗ 08 All the Little Live Things 1967 Buy ↗ 09 Angle of Repose 1971 Buy ↗ 10 The Spectator Bird 1976 Buy ↗ 11 Crossing to Safety 1987 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Brude Mason Books 2 books · 1943–1979
01 The Big Rock Candy Mountain 1943 Buy ↗ 02 Recapitulation 1979 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Collections 4 books · 1950–1990
01 The Women on the Wall 1950 Buy ↗ 02 The City of the Living & Other Stories 1956 Buy ↗ 03 The Writer's Art 1972 Buy ↗ 04 The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner 1990 Buy ↗ Publication Order of American Folkways Books 8 books · 1941–2007
01 Desert Country(By: Edwin Corle) 1941 Buy ↗ 02 Short Grass Country(By: Stanley Vestal) 1941 Buy ↗ 03 Mormon Country 1942 Buy ↗ 04 Palmetto Country(By: Stetson Kennedy) 1942 Buy ↗ 05 Deep Delta Country(By: Harnett T. Kane) 1944 Buy ↗ 06 Golden Gate Country(By: Gertrude Atherton) 1945 Buy ↗ 07 Big Country Texas(By: Donald Day) 1947 Buy ↗ 08 Blue Ridge Country(By: Jean Thomas) 2007 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 23 books · 1954–2008
01 Beyond the Hundredth Meridian 1954 Buy ↗ 02 This Is Dinosaur 1955 Buy ↗ 04 The Gathering of Zion 1964 Buy ↗ 05 Teaching the Short Story 1966 Buy ↗ 06 The Sound of Mountain Water 1969 Buy ↗ 07 Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil 1971 Buy ↗ 08 The Uneasy Chair 1974 Buy ↗ 09 The letters of Bernard DeVoto(With: Bernard DeVoto) 1975 Buy ↗ 10 The Writer in America 1976 Buy ↗ 11 One Way To Spell Man 1982 Buy ↗ 12 Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature 1983 Buy ↗ 13 American Places 1985 Buy ↗ 14 The American West as Living Space 1987 Buy ↗ 15 On the Teaching of Creative Writing 1988 Buy ↗ 16 Wilderness at the Edge 1991 Buy ↗ 17 Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs 1992 Buy ↗ 18 Marking the Sparrow's Fall 1998 Buy ↗ 19 On Teaching and Writing Fiction 2002 Buy ↗ 20 The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner 2007 Buy ↗ 21 The Selected Letters 2007 Buy ↗ 22 Wallace Stegner's West 2008 Buy ↗ 23 The Twilight of Self Reliance 2008 Buy ↗