Author · updated 2026
Jim Harrison Books in Order
Every Jim Harrison book in publication order — 48 in total, spanning 1965–2020.
Publication Order of Detective Sunderson Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Great Leader | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Big Seven | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Dalva Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dalva | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Road Home | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of True North Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  True North | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Returning to Earth | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Wolf | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Good Day to Die | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Farmer | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Legends of the Fall | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Warlock | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Sundog | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  The Boy Who Ran to the Woods | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The English Major | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Woman Lit by Fireflies | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Julip | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Beast God Forgot to Invent | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Summer He Didn't Die | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Farmer's Daughter | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The River Swimmer | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Brown Dog | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Ancient Minstrel | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Poetry Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Song | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Locations | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Outlyer and ghazals | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Letters to Yesenin | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  SELECTED & NEW POEMS | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  The Theory & Practice Of Rivers And New Poems | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Theory & Practice Of Rivers | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  After Ikkyu and Other Poems | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  The Shape of the Journey | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Braided Creek | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Saving Daylight | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  In Search of Small Gods | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  Songs of Unreason | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Dead Man's Float | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  Natural World | 0 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Just Before Dark | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Raw and the Cooked | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Conversations with Jim Harrison | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Off to the Side | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Etiquette of Freedom | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  A Really Big Lunch | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Wild Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 48, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Song | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Locations | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Wolf | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Outlyer and ghazals | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Good Day to Die | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Letters to Yesenin | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Farmer | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Legends of the Fall | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Warlock | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | SELECTED & NEW POEMS | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Sundog | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Dalva | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Woman Lit by Fireflies | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Theory & Practice Of Rivers And New Poems | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The Theory & Practice Of Rivers | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Just Before Dark | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Julip | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | After Ikkyu and Other Poems | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Road Home | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The Shape of the Journey | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | The Boy Who Ran to the Woods | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Beast God Forgot to Invent | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Raw and the Cooked | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Conversations with Jim Harrison | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Off to the Side | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Wild Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | Braided Creek | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | True North | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | The Summer He Didn't Die | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Saving Daylight | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Returning to Earth | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | The English Major | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | The Farmer's Daughter | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | In Search of Small Gods | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | The Etiquette of Freedom | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Great Leader | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Songs of Unreason | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | The River Swimmer | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Brown Dog | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | The Big Seven | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Dead Man's Float | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | The Ancient Minstrel | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | A Really Big Lunch | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Natural World | 0 | Amazon US UK |
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