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Dolly Parton Books in Order

Dolly Parton has written 13 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Coat of Many Colors (1994) and the newest is Star of the Show: My Life on Stage (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1994–2025
Pages on record
1,465 in 7 of 13 books
Reading time
24–37 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,465 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

See all 13 books in order Printable Dolly Parton checklist

Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter whose 13 catalogued books run from Coat of Many Colors (1994) to Star of the Show: My Life on Stage (2025). Parton has won eleven Grammy Awards from fifty-five nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. The books include Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business (1994), Dolly Parton, Songteller (2020) and Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones (2023). Parton also has a Billy the Kid series, and children's fiction and stories in rhyme are recorded subjects. Run, Rose, Run was written with James Patterson.

How many Dolly Parton books are there?

Dolly Parton has 13 books, released between 1994 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Billy The Kid series.

Dolly Parton Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Dolly Parton 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 Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton (1994)
  2. Cover of Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton (1994)
  3. Cover of I Am a Rainbow by Dolly Parton (2009)
  4. Cover of Tennessee: My Homeland by Dolly Parton (2012)
  5. Cover of Dream More by Dolly Parton (2012)
  6. Cover of Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton by Dolly Parton (2017)
  7. Cover of Dolly Parton, Songteller by Dolly Parton (2020)
  8. Cover of Billy the Kid Makes It Big by Dolly Parton, book 1 of the Billy The Kid series (2023)
  9. Cover of Good Lookin' Cookin': A Year of Meals - A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food by Dolly Parton (2024)
  1. 1
    Coat of Many Colors1994 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199432
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    I Am a Rainbow2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Tennessee: My Homeland2012 · 462 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012462
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Dream More2012 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012122
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly PartonMusicians in Their Own Words #122017 · 389 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017389
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Dolly Parton, Songteller2020 · 380 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020380
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Billy the Kid Makes It BigBilly The Kid #12023 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202340
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Billy the Kid Comes Home for ChristmasBilly The Kid #22024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Good Lookin' Cookin': A Year of Meals - A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Billy the Kid Dances His Heart OutBilly The Kid #32025 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202540
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Star of the Show: My Life on Stage2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Dolly Parton 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.

Billy The Kid in order

3 books
  1. 1. Billy the Kid Makes It Big
  2. 2. Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas
  3. 3. Billy the Kid Dances His Heart Out

Musicians in Their Own Words in order

1 book
  1. 12. Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton

Standalone books

9 books

9 Dolly Parton titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dolly Parton books in order?

You only need to read Dolly Parton books in order within the Billy The Kid series, which holds 3 of the 13 Dolly Parton books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Dolly Parton

Start with Coat of Many Colors (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dolly Parton book?

Star of the Show: My Life on Stage (2025) is the newest Dolly Parton book released so far.

Is there a new Dolly Parton book coming?

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

Dolly Parton at a glance

Still publishing
Dolly Parton published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Dolly Parton books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,465 pages across the 7 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 122 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dolly Parton books, 7 of 13, were published in the 2020s.

What the Dolly Parton books are about

9 of the 13 Dolly Parton books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: country musicians is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.