Garrison Keillor Books in Order
Garrison Keillor has written 46 books, published between 1982 and 2022. The first book is Happy to Be Here (1982) and the newest is Boom Town (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 46
- Published
- 1982–2022
- Pages on record
- 6,237 in 28 of 46 books
- Reading time
- 104–156 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,237 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 28 of 46 titles with a page count on record.
Garrison Keillor created Lake Wobegon, a fictional Minnesota town, and set much of his work there. Lake Wobegon Days (1985) and Leaving Home (1987) belong to that sequence, which sits alongside the Good Poems anthologies in a catalogue of 46 books. Keillor's subjects run to humorous stories, Minnesota, American poetry and children's fiction. Happy to Be Here (1982) is the earliest title and Boom Town (2022) the most recent, with nothing new since.
How many Garrison Keillor books are there?
Garrison Keillor has 46 books, released between 1982 and 2022. They include 2 series and 32 titles listed outside any series.
Garrison Keillor Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 46 Garrison Keillor 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.
- 1Happy to Be Here1982 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/419822722/4
- 2Ten Years1984 · confirmed 2/41984–2/4
- 319853372/4
- 419872442/4
- 5WLT: A Radio Romance / Radio Romance1989 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/419894162/4
- 619893302/4
- 7The Book of Guys1993 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/419933522/4
- 8Cat, You Better Come Home1995 · confirmed 2/41995–2/4
- 9A Prairie Home Christmas1995 · confirmed 2/41995–2/4
- 10Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories1995 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/41995642/4
- 11The Sandy Bottom Orchestra1996 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419962562/4
- 12The Old Man Who Loved Cheese1996 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/41996322/4
- 131997–2/4
- 14Me By JimmyValente, Governor Of Minnesota1999 · 152 pages · confirmed 2/419991522/4
- 15A Prairie Home Commonplace Book1999 · 156 pages · confirmed 2/419991562/4
- 16A Prairie Home Companion1999 · confirmed 2/41999–2/4
- 17Keillor Christmas2000 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/42000322/4
- 18A Prairie Home Companion Songbook2000 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/42000642/4
- 1920013042/4
- 20Love Me2003 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/420032722/4
- 21Home on the Prairie2003 · confirmed 2/42003–2/4
- 22Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy2003 · confirmed 2/42003–2/4
- 23Stories: An Audio Collection2003 · confirmed 2/42003–2/4
- 24Homegrown Democrat2004 · 259 pages · confirmed 2/420042592/4
- 2520053682/4
- 26Daddy's Girl2005 · 18 pages · confirmed 2/42005182/4
- 2720061272/4
- 28A Prairie Home Collection2006 · confirmed 2/42006–2/4
- 2920072482/4
- 3020082672/4
- 31A Christmas Blizzard2009 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/420091922/4
- 32Even More Pretty Good Jokes2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 332009–2/4
- 34The Keillor Reader2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 3577 Love Sonnets2009 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/42009962/4
- 3620092972/4
- 372010–2/4
- 38Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny2012 · confirmed 2/42012–2/4
- 39O, What a Luxury2013 · 170 pages · confirmed 2/420131702/4
- 40Pretty Good Joke Book2015 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/420154002/4
- 41Sounding Off!2016 · confirmed 2/42016–2/4
- 42A Luxury of Limericks2018 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/420181762/4
- 43Living with Limericks2019 · confirmed 2/42019–2/4
- 44That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life2020 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420203362/4
- 452020–2/4
- 462022–2/4
Garrison Keillor 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.
Lake Wobegon in order
12 booksGood Poems in order
2 booksStandalone books
32 books32 Garrison Keillor titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Garrison Keillor books in order?
You only need to read Garrison Keillor books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Garrison Keillor
Start with Happy to Be Here (1982), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Garrison Keillor book?
Boom Town (2022) is the newest Garrison Keillor book released so far.
Is there a new Garrison Keillor book coming?
No next Garrison Keillor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Garrison Keillor at a glance
- Paused
- No new Garrison Keillor title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Garrison Keillor books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 6,237 pages across the 28 of 46 books with a recorded length, a median of 252 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Garrison Keillor books, 20 of 46, were published in the 2000s.
What the Garrison Keillor books are about
32 of the 46 Garrison Keillor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 11 of 32. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 11 of 32 books
- Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place) 9 of 32 books
- Lake Wobegon (Minnesota : Imaginary place) 5 of 32 books
- Minnesota 4 of 32 books
- American Humorous stories 3 of 32 books
- Poetry 3 of 32 books
- Children's fiction 3 of 32 books
- Minnesota in fiction 3 of 32 books