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Alice Munro Books in Order

Alice Munro has written 28 books, published between 1968 and 2016. The first book is Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and the newest is Julieta (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
28
Published
1968–2016
Pages on record
7,954 in 24 of 28 books
Reading time
133–199 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,954 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 24 of 28 titles with a page count on record.

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Alice Munro (1931–2024) built a career on short fiction across five decades of publishing. The Canadian writer took the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her body of work. Her stories are set most often in Huron County in southwestern Ontario and move forward and backward in time within linked cycles, taking women, families and small-town manners as their material. 28 books are catalogued, from Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) onward, including Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Beggar Maid (1977) and Open Secrets (1994).

How many Alice Munro books are there?

Alice Munro has 28 books, released between 1968 and 2016.

Alice Munro Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 28 Alice Munro books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro (1968)
  2. Cover of Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro (1971)
  3. Cover of Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro (1974)
  4. Cover of The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (1977)
  5. Cover of Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro (1977)
  6. Cover of The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro (1983)
  7. Cover of The Progress of Love by Alice Munro (1985)
  8. Cover of Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (1990)
  9. Cover of Open Secrets by Alice Munro (1994)
  10. Cover of The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro (1998)
  11. Cover of No Love Lost by Alice Munro (2003)
  12. Cover of Vintage Munro by Alice Munro (2004)
  13. Cover of Runaway by Alice Munro (2004)
  14. Cover of Carried Away by Alice Munro (2006)
  15. Cover of View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro (2006)
  16. Cover of Away from Her by Alice Munro (2007)
  17. Cover of New Selected Stories by Alice Munro (2011)
  18. Cover of Dear Life by Alice Munro (2012)
  19. Cover of Lying Under the Apple Tree by Alice Munro (2014)
  20. Cover of Family Furnishings by Alice Munro (2014)
  21. Cover of A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro (2015)
  22. Cover of Julieta by Alice Munro (2016)
  1. 1
    Dance of the Happy Shades1968 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1968224
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    Lives of Girls and Women1971 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1971277
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  3. 3
    Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You1974 · 246 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1974246
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  4. 4
    The Beggar Maid1977 · 210 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1977210
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  5. 5
    Who Do You Think You Are?1977 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1977256
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  6. 6
    The Moons of Jupiter1983 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1983256
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  7. 7
    The Progress of Love1985 · 309 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1985309
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  8. 8
    Friend of My Youth1990 · 273 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990273
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  9. 9
    Open Secrets1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  10. 10
    Selected Stories1996 · 688 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996688
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  11. 11
    The Love of a Good Woman1998 · 339 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998339
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  12. 12
    Queenie1999 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199964
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  13. 13
    Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage2001 · 323 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001323
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  14. 14
    No Love Lost2003 · 421 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003421
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  15. 15
    Vintage Munro2004 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004196
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  16. 16
    Runaway2004 · 335 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004335
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  17. 17
    Carried Away2006 · 559 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006559
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  18. 18
    View From Castle Rock2006 · 349 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006349
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  19. 19
    Away from Her2007 · 76 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200776
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  20. 20
    Too Much Happiness2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  21. 21
    My Best Stories2009 · 536 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009536
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  22. 22
    New Selected Stories2011 · 434 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011434
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  23. 23
    Dear Life2012 · 319 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012319
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  24. 24
    Lying Under the Apple Tree2014 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014448
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  25. 25
    Family Furnishings2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  26. 26
    The Office2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  27. 27
    A Wilderness Station2015 · 688 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015688
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  28. 28
    Julieta2016 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016128
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Alice Munro books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

28 books

28 Alice Munro titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Alice Munro Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Alice Munro books run from Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) to Julieta (2016), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Alice Munro in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Alice Munro books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 28 Alice Munro books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Alice Munro

Start with Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alice Munro book?

Julieta (2016) is the newest Alice Munro book released so far.

Is there a new Alice Munro book coming?

No next Alice Munro book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Alice Munro has won

Wikidata records 14 awards and 1 nomination for Alice Munro. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Nobel Prize in Literature2013Won
  • International Booker Prize2009Won
  • O. Henry Award2008Won
  • O. Henry Award2006Won
  • Giller Prize2004Wonfor Runaway
  • Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2004Wonfor Runaway
  • Rea Award for the Short Story2001Won
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction1998Wonfor The Love of a Good Woman
  • Giller Prize1998Wonfor The Love of a Good Woman
  • PEN/Malamud Award1997Won
  • Marian Engel Award1986Won
  • Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1986Wonfor The Progress of Love

Alice Munro at a glance

Died
Alice Munro died in 2024, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Alice Munro on record dates from 2016.
Release pace
Alice Munro books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,954 pages across the 24 of 28 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alice Munro books, 9 of 28, were published in the 2000s.

What the Alice Munro books are about

26 of the 28 Alice Munro books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 13 of 26. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Social life and customs 13 of 26 books
  • Canadian Short stories 10 of 26 books
  • Short stories 10 of 26 books
  • Women 7 of 26 books
  • Manners and customs 5 of 26 books
  • Canada 4 of 26 books
  • Women authors 4 of 26 books
  • Canadian fiction 3 of 26 books
  • English literature 3 of 26 books
  • Family life 3 of 26 books
  • Alzheimer's disease 2 of 26 books