Jeannette Walls Books in Order
Jeannette Walls has written 5 books, published between 2000 and 2023. The first book is Dish (2000) and the newest is Hang the Moon (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2000–2023
- Confirmed
- 3 of 5 titles
- Pages on record
- 960 in 3 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 16–24 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 960 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
The Glass Castle (2005), Jeannette Walls's memoir of a nomadic family childhood, is the best known of her five catalogued books. Walls is an American author and journalist, born in 1960, who worked as a gossip columnist for MSNBC.com before turning to books. Her catalogue opens with Dish (2000) and closes with Hang the Moon (2023). The Glass Castle spent 421 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and Walls took both the Alex Award and the Christopher Award in 2006.
How many Jeannette Walls books are there?
Jeannette Walls has 5 books, released between 2000 and 2023.
Jeannette Walls Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Jeannette Walls 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.
- 1Dish2000 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420003842/4
- 2The Glass Castle2005 · confirmed 3/42005–3/4
- 3Half Broke Horses2008 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/420082723/4
- 4The Silver Star2013 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420133042/4
- 5Hang the Moon2023 · confirmed 3/42023–3/4
Jeannette Walls 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
5 books5 Jeannette Walls titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jeannette Walls books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Jeannette Walls books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Jeannette Walls
Start with Dish (2000), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jeannette Walls book?
Hang the Moon (2023) is the newest Jeannette Walls book released so far.
Is there a new Jeannette Walls book coming?
No next Jeannette Walls book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jeannette Walls at a glance
- Paused
- No new Jeannette Walls title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Jeannette Walls books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
- Length
- 960 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jeannette Walls books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2000s.
What the Jeannette Walls books are about
All 5 Jeannette Walls 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.
- Abandoned children 1 of 5 books
- Adjustment (Psychology) 1 of 5 books
- Amerikanisches Englisch 1 of 5 books
- Arizona 1 of 5 books
- Biography 1 of 5 books
- Boulevardpers 1 of 5 books
- Case studies 1 of 5 books
- Dysfunctional families 1 of 5 books
- Family life 1 of 5 books
- Gossip 1 of 5 books
- Gossip in mass media 1 of 5 books
- Homeless persons 1 of 5 books