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Wallace Stegner Books in Order
Every Wallace Stegner book in publication order — 42 in total, spanning 1937–2008.
Publication Order of Brude Mason Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Big Rock Candy Mountain | 1943 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Recapitulation | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of American Folkways Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mormon Country | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Remembering Laughter | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Potter's House | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | On a Darkling Plain | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Fire and Ice | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Second Growth | 1947 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  A Shooting Star | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  All the Little Live Things | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Angle of Repose | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  The Spectator Bird | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Crossing to Safety | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Women on the Wall | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The City of the Living & Other Stories | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Writer's Art | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Beyond the Hundredth Meridian | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  This Is Dinosaur | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Wolf Willow | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Gathering of Zion | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Teaching the Short Story | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Sound of Mountain Water | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Uneasy Chair | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Writer in America | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  One Way To Spell Man | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  American Places | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  The American West as Living Space | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  On the Teaching of Creative Writing | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  Wilderness at the Edge | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  Marking the Sparrow's Fall | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  On Teaching and Writing Fiction | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  The Selected Letters | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  Wallace Stegner's West | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  The Twilight of Self Reliance | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Faber Book Of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Prose and Poetry of the American West | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 42, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remembering Laughter | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Potter's House | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | On a Darkling Plain | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Fire and Ice | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Mormon Country | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Big Rock Candy Mountain | 1943 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Second Growth | 1947 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Women on the Wall | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | This Is Dinosaur | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The City of the Living & Other Stories | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | A Shooting Star | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Wolf Willow | 1962 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Gathering of Zion | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Teaching the Short Story | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | All the Little Live Things | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The Sound of Mountain Water | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Angle of Repose | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Writer's Art | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The Uneasy Chair | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | The Spectator Bird | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Writer in America | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Recapitulation | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | One Way To Spell Man | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | American Places | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | Crossing to Safety | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | The American West as Living Space | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | On the Teaching of Creative Writing | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | The Faber Book Of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Wilderness at the Edge | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | Prose and Poetry of the American West | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Marking the Sparrow's Fall | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | On Teaching and Writing Fiction | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | The Selected Letters | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Wallace Stegner's West | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | The Twilight of Self Reliance | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
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