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Chris Offutt Books in Order

Chris Offutt has written 11 books, published between 1992 and 2025. The first book is Kentucky Straight (1992) and the newest is The Reluctant Sheriff (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1992–2025
Pages on record
1,854 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
31–46 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,854 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

See all 11 books in order Printable Chris Offutt checklist

Chris Offutt is an American writer of short stories, novels and memoir, born in 1958. Eleven books are catalogued, opening with the story collection Kentucky Straight (1992) and reaching The Reluctant Sheriff (2025). Kentucky, Montana and the lives of American authors recur as subjects. The Mick Hardin novels are his one series here, and recent titles include The Killing Hills (2021), Shifty's Boys (2022) and Code of the Hills (2023). Offutt has also written episodes for the television series True Blood and Weeds.

How many Chris Offutt books are there?

Chris Offutt has 11 books, released between 1992 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Mick Hardin series.

Chris Offutt Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Chris Offutt 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 Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt (1992)
  2. Cover of The Same River Twice by Chris Offutt (1993)
  3. Cover of The Good Brother by Chris Offutt (1997)
  4. Cover of Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt (1999)
  5. Cover of No Heroes by Chris Offutt (2002)
  6. Cover of My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt (2016)
  7. Cover of Country Dark by Chris Offutt (2018)
  8. Cover of The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt, book 1 of the Mick Hardin series (2021)
  1. 1
    Kentucky Straight1992 · 167 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992167
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  2. 2
    The Same River Twice1993 · 188 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993188
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Good Brother1997 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Out of the Woods1999 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    No Heroes2002 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    My Father, the Pornographer2016 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Country Dark2018 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Killing HillsMick Hardin #12021 · 219 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021219
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Shifty’s BoysMick Hardin #22022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  10. 10
    Code of the HillsMick Hardin #32023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    The Reluctant SheriffMick Hardin #42025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Chris Offutt series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Chris Offutt 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

7 books

7 Chris Offutt titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Chris Offutt books in order?

You only need to read Chris Offutt books in order within the Mick Hardin series, which holds 4 of the 11 Chris Offutt books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Chris Offutt

Start with The Killing Hills (2021), the first Mick Hardin book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Kentucky Straight (1992).

What is the newest Chris Offutt book?

The Reluctant Sheriff (2025) is the newest Chris Offutt book released so far.

Is there a new Chris Offutt book coming?

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

Chris Offutt at a glance

Still publishing
Chris Offutt published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Chris Offutt books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,854 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 230 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Chris Offutt books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2020s.

What the Chris Offutt books are about

8 of the 11 Chris Offutt books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: kentucky is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.