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Larry McMurtry Books in Order
Every Larry McMurtry book in publication order — 50 in total, spanning 1961–2017.
Publication Order of Thalia, Texas Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horseman, Pass By / Hud | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Leaving Cheyenne | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Thalia | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Last Picture Show Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Last Picture Show | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Texasville | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Duane's Depressed | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | When the Light Goes | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Rhino Ranch | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Houston Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moving On | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Terms of Endearment | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Somebody's Darling | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Some Can Whistle | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Evening Star | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Desert Rose Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Desert Rose | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Late Child | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Lonesome Dove Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lonesome Dove | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Streets of Laredo | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Dead Man's Walk | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Comanche Moon | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Berrybender Narratives Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sin Killer | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Wandering Hill | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | By Sorrow's River | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Folly and Glory | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cadillac Jack | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Anything for Billy | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Buffalo Girls | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Pretty Boy Floyd | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Zeke and Ned | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Boone's Lick | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Loop Group | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Telegraph Days | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Last Kind Words Saloon | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Crazy Horse | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Paradise | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Colonel and Little Missie | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Books: A Memoir | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Literary Life: A Second Memoir | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Hollywood: A Third Memoir | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Custer | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Missouri River | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still Wild | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Lone Star Literature | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 50, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horseman, Pass By / Hud | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Leaving Cheyenne | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Last Picture Show | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Moving On | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Terms of Endearment | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Somebody's Darling | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Cadillac Jack | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Desert Rose | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Lonesome Dove | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Texasville | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Anything for Billy | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Some Can Whistle | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Buffalo Girls | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The Evening Star | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Streets of Laredo | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Pretty Boy Floyd | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Late Child | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Dead Man's Walk | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Comanche Moon | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Zeke and Ned | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Duane's Depressed | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Crazy Horse | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Boone's Lick | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | Still Wild | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Paradise | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Sin Killer | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | The Wandering Hill | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | By Sorrow's River | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | Lone Star Literature | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | Folly and Glory | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Loop Group | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | Telegraph Days | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | The Colonel and Little Missie | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | When the Light Goes | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Books: A Memoir | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | Rhino Ranch | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Literary Life: A Second Memoir | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Hollywood: A Third Memoir | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Custer | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | The Last Kind Words Saloon | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Missouri River | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | Thalia | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
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