Harper Lee Books in Order
3 books are credited to Harper Lee, published between 1960 and 2025; 1 of them appeared after Harper Lee's death in 2016. The first book is To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and the newest is The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 1960–2025
- Pages on record
- 672 in 2 of 3 books
Harper Lee's catalogue holds three titles. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) takes up racial injustice and segregation in the American South; Go Set a Watchman followed in 2015 and The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays in 2025. Southern Gothic, race relations, fathers and daughters and the nineteen fifties are the recurring subjects.
How many Harper Lee books are there?
Harper Lee has 3 books, released between 1960 and 2025. 1 of them were published after Harper Lee's death in 2016. 2 of them belong to the To Kill a Mockingbird series.
Harper Lee Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 3 Harper Lee 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.
- 119603842/4
- 220152882/4
- 3The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Harper Lee 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.
To Kill a Mockingbird in order
2 booksStandalone books
1 book1 Harper Lee title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Harper Lee books in order?
You only need to read Harper Lee books in order within the To Kill a Mockingbird series, which holds 2 of the 3 Harper Lee books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Harper Lee
Start with To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Harper Lee book?
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays (2025) is the newest Harper Lee book released so far.
Is there a new Harper Lee book coming?
No next Harper Lee book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Harper Lee has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Harper Lee. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1961Wonfor To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee at a glance
- Died
- Harper Lee died in 2016, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Harper Lee are still being published after Harper Lee's death in 2016; the newest appeared in 2025.
- Release pace
- Harper Lee books have appeared about one every 33 years on average.
- Length
- 672 pages across the 2 of 3 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
What the Harper Lee books are about
2 of the 3 Harper Lee books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Adult children of aging parents 1 of 2 books
- Contemporary fiction 1 of 2 books
- Fathers and daughters 1 of 2 books
- Fiction classics 1 of 2 books
- Girls 1 of 2 books
- Mob mentality 1 of 2 books
- Nineteen fifties 1 of 2 books
- Race relations 1 of 2 books
- Racial injustice 1 of 2 books
- Racial segregation 1 of 2 books
- School integration 1 of 2 books
- Social change 1 of 2 books