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Bobbie Ann Mason Books in Order

Bobbie Ann Mason has written 19 books, published between 1974 and 2020. The first book is Nabokov's Garden (1974) and the newest is Dear Ann (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1974–2020
Confirmed
1 of 19 titles
Pages on record
4,269 in 15 of 19 books
Reading time
71–107 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,269 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Nineteen catalogued books carry Bobbie Ann Mason's name, published between 1974 and 2020 and opening with Nabokov's Garden (1974). Mason, born in 1940, is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and literary critic from Kentucky. The catalogue indexes the work under Kentucky, farm life, families, the Vietnam War and single-author short story collections, and takes in Shiloh and Other Stories (1982), In Country (1985) and Dear Ann (2020). A Mason memoir was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

How many Bobbie Ann Mason books are there?

Bobbie Ann Mason has 19 books, released between 1974 and 2020.

Bobbie Ann Mason Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Bobbie Ann Mason 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 Nabokov's Garden by Bobbie Ann Mason (1974)
  2. Cover of The Girl Sleuth by Bobbie Ann Mason (1975)
  3. Cover of Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason (1982)
  4. Cover of In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason (1985)
  5. Cover of Spence and Lila by Bobbie Ann Mason (1988)
  6. Cover of Love Life by Bobbie Ann Mason (1989)
  7. Cover of Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason (1993)
  8. Cover of Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason (1999)
  9. Cover of Midnight Magic by Bobbie Ann Mason (1999)
  10. Cover of Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason (2001)
  11. Cover of An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason (2005)
  12. Cover of Nancy Culpepper by Bobbie Ann Mason (2006)
  13. Cover of The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason (2011)
  14. Cover of Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason (2020)
  1. 1
    Nabokov's Garden1974 · 196 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974196
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  2. 2
    The Girl Sleuth1975 · 145 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975145
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  3. 4
    In Country1985 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985272
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  4. 5
    Spence and Lila1988 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988176
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  5. 6
    Love Life1989 · 231 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989231
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  6. 7
    Feather Crowns1993 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993464
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  7. 8
    Clear Springs1999 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999320
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  8. 9
    Midnight Magic1999 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999320
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  9. 10
    Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail2001 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001224
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  10. 11
    Elvis PresleyPenguin Lives #232002 · confirmed 3/4
    2002–
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  11. 12
    An Atomic Romance2005 · 266 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005266
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 13
    Nancy Culpepper2006 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 14
    The Girl in the Blue Beret2011 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011352
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  14. 15
    Balancing Act2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  15. 16
    Bridges2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  16. 17
    The Whirling Circle2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  17. 18
    Patchwork2018 · 487 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018487
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  18. 19
    Dear Ann2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020352
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Bobbie Ann Mason 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.

Penguin Lives in order

1 book
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Standalone books

18 books

18 Bobbie Ann Mason titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Bobbie Ann Mason books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 19 Bobbie Ann Mason books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Bobbie Ann Mason

Start with Nabokov's Garden (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Bobbie Ann Mason book?

Dear Ann (2020) is the newest Bobbie Ann Mason book released so far.

Is there a new Bobbie Ann Mason book coming?

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

Bobbie Ann Mason at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Bobbie Ann Mason title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Bobbie Ann Mason books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,269 pages across the 15 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 266 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Bobbie Ann Mason books, 5 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Bobbie Ann Mason books are about

15 of the 19 Bobbie Ann Mason 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 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.