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Annie Proulx Books in Order

Annie Proulx has written 20 books, published between 1982 and 2023. The first book is Great Grapes (1982) and the newest is Fen, Bog & Swamp (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1982–2023
Pages on record
4,161 in 16 of 20 books
Reading time
69–104 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,161 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Annie Proulx, author of the Wyoming Stories series

Annie Proulx, born in 1935, is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist who has also published as E. Annie Proulx and E. A. Proulx. Her 20 catalogued books begin with the practical: Great Grapes in 1982 and Making the Best Apple Cider in 1983. Postcards then took the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and made Proulx the first woman to win it, and The Shipping News, published in 1993, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the U.S. National Book Award before reaching film in 2001. The short story Brokeback Mountain became a 2005 film that won Academy, BAFTA and Golden Globe awards. Wyoming, ranch life and the frontier run through the later work, up to Fen, Bog & Swamp in 2023.

How many Annie Proulx books are there?

Annie Proulx has 20 books, released between 1982 and 2023. 3 of them belong to the Wyoming Stories series.

Annie Proulx Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Annie Proulx 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 Great Grapes by Annie Proulx (1982)
  2. Cover of Making the Best Apple Cider by Annie Proulx (1983)
  3. Cover of The Gourmet Gardener by Annie Proulx (1987)
  4. Cover of Heart Songs and Other Stories by Annie Proulx (1988)
  5. Cover of Postcards by Annie Proulx (1991)
  6. Cover of The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1993)
  7. Cover of Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx (1996)
  8. Cover of Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (1997)
  9. Cover of Close Range by Annie Proulx, book 1 of the Wyoming Stories series (1999)
  10. Cover of The Shipping News: Screenplay by Annie Proulx, book 1 of the Standalone Plays series (2002)
  11. Cover of That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx (2002)
  12. Cover of Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx, book 2 of the Wyoming Stories series (2004)
  13. Cover of A Roaring in the Blood by Annie Proulx (2007)
  14. Cover of Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx, book 3 of the Wyoming Stories series (2008)
  15. Cover of Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx (2011)
  16. Cover of Barkskins by Annie Proulx (2016)
  1. 1
    Great Grapes1982 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198232
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  2. 2
    Making the Best Apple Cider1983 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198332
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  3. 3
    The Gourmet Gardener1987 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987197
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  4. 5
    Postcards1991 · confirmed 2/4
    1991–
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  5. 6
    The Shipping News1993 · 364 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993364
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  6. 7
    Accordion Crimes1996 · 381 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996381
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  7. 8
    Brokeback Mountain1997 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199764
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  8. 9
    Close RangeWyoming Stories #11999 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999336
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  9. 10
    The Shipping News: ScreenplayStandalone Plays #12002 · 166 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002166
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  10. 11
    That Old Ace in the Hole2002 · 361 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002361
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  11. 12
    Bad DirtWyoming Stories #22004 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004240
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  12. 14
    A Roaring in the Blood2007 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007240
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  13. 15
    Fine Just the Way It IsWyoming Stories #32008 · 221 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008221
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  14. 16
    Bird Cloud2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  15. 17
    Cider2012 · 188 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012188
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  16. 18
    Red Desert2012 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012400
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  17. 19
    Barkskins2016 · 736 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016736
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  18. 20
    Fen, Bog & Swamp2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Annie Proulx 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.

Wyoming Stories in order

3 books
  1. 1. Close Range
  2. 2. Bad Dirt
  3. 3. Fine Just the Way It Is

Standalone Plays

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

16 books

16 Annie Proulx titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Annie Proulx books in order?

You only need to read Annie Proulx books in order within the Wyoming Stories series, which holds 3 of the 20 Annie Proulx books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Annie Proulx

Start with Great Grapes (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Annie Proulx book?

Fen, Bog & Swamp (2023) is the newest Annie Proulx book released so far.

Is there a new Annie Proulx book coming?

No next Annie Proulx 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 Annie Proulx has won

Wikidata records 7 awards for Annie Proulx. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction2018Won
  • National Book Award2017Won
  • O. Henry Award1998Wonfor Brokeback Mountain
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1994Wonfor The Shipping News
  • National Book Award1993Wonfor The Shipping News
  • Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize1993Won
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction1992Wonfor Postcards

Annie Proulx at a glance

Paused
No new Annie Proulx title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Annie Proulx books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
4,161 pages across the 16 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 230 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Annie Proulx books, 6 of 20, were published in the 2000s.

What the Annie Proulx books are about

18 of the 20 Annie Proulx 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 5 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.