Donald Harington Books in Order
17 books are credited to Donald Harington, published between 1965 and 2020; 2 of them appeared after Donald Harington's death in 2009. The first book is The Cherry Pit (1965) and the newest is Double Toil and Trouble (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 1965–2020
- Pages on record
- 5,695 in 15 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 95–142 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,695 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Donald Harington (22 December 1935 – 7 November 2009) was an American author and visual artist. Every Harington novel after the first is set in, or tied to, Stay More, an invented town in the Ozark Mountains modelled in part on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent childhood summers. The catalogue lists 17 books from The Cherry Pit (1965) to Double Toil and Trouble (2020), including Lightning Bug (1970), The Cockroaches of Stay More (1989) and The Choiring of the Trees (1991).
Source: Wikidata
How many Donald Harington books are there?
Donald Harington has 17 books, released between 1965 and 2020. 2 of them were published after Donald Harington's death in 2009. 13 of them belong to the Stay More series.
Donald Harington Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Donald Harington 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 November 2026.
- 1The Cherry Pit1965 · 470 pages · confirmed 1/419654701/4
- 219702661/4
- 319725601/4
- 419753761/4
- 5Let Us Build Us a City1986 · 584 pages · confirmed 1/419865841/4
- 619893231/4
- 719914501/4
- 819934181/4
- 919963241/4
- 1019982681/4
- 112002–1/4
- 1220035081/4
- 1320052161/4
- 1420082441/4
- 1520095121/4
- 16The Guestroom Novelist2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 17Double Toil and Trouble2020 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420201761/4
Donald Harington 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.
Stay More in order
13 books- 1. Lightning Bug
- 2. Some Other Place. The Right Place.
- 3. Architecture Of The Arkansas Ozarks
- 4. The Cockroaches of Stay More
- 5. The Choiring of the Trees
- 6. Ekaterina
- 7. Butterfly Weed
- 8. When Angels Rest
- 9. Thirteen Albatrosses
- 10. With
- 11. The Pitcher Shower
- 12. Farther Along
- and 1 more in the table above
Standalone books
4 books4 Donald Harington titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Donald Harington books in order?
You only need to read Donald Harington books in order within the Stay More series, which holds 13 of the 17 Donald Harington books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Donald Harington
Start with The Cherry Pit (1965), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Donald Harington book?
Double Toil and Trouble (2020) is the newest Donald Harington book released so far.
Is there a new Donald Harington book coming?
No next Donald Harington book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for Donald Harington
Wikidata records 1 nomination for Donald Harington. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1990Shortlistedfor The Cockroaches of Stay More
Donald Harington at a glance
- Died
- Donald Harington died in 2009, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Donald Harington are still being published after Donald Harington's death in 2009; the newest appeared in 2020.
- Release pace
- Donald Harington books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 5,695 pages across the 15 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 376 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Donald Harington books, 5 of 17, were published in the 2000s.
When Donald Harington books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Donald Harington titles appeared. 2000s was the most productive decade with 5 titles.
17 books total across 7 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Donald Harington books are about
14 of the 17 Donald Harington books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 3 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- American literature 3 of 14 books
- Arkansas 3 of 14 books
- Historical fiction 3 of 14 books
- City and town life 2 of 14 books
- Mountain life 2 of 14 books
- Ozark mountains region 2 of 14 books