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Wallace Stegner Complete Bibliography

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

Updated 2026-07-11 / 48 books / 5 series

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.

Books by Wallace Stegner in Publication Order

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 Writer in America POoNB / 10 Buy
1976 The Spectator Bird POoSN / 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

Complete Wallace Stegner Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Standalone Reading Order 11 books / 1937-1987
01 Remembering Laughter 1937 Buy
02 The Potter's House 1938 Buy
03 On a Darkling Plain 1940 Buy
04 Fire and Ice 1941 Buy
05 Second Growth 1947 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
Brude Mason Reading Order 2 books / 1943-1979
01 The Big Rock Candy Mountain 1943 Buy
02 Recapitulation 1979 Buy
Collections Reading Order 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
American Folkways Reading Order 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
Non-Fiction Reading Order 23 books / 1954-2008
01 Beyond the Hundredth Meridian 1954 Buy
02 This Is Dinosaur 1955 Buy
03 Wolf Willow 1962 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

Where to start with Wallace Stegner

What is the best order to read Wallace Stegner 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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