Katherine Anne Porter Books in Order
28 books are credited to Katherine Anne Porter, published between 1922 and 2025; 10 of them appeared after Katherine Anne Porter's death in 1980. The first book is Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts (1922) and the newest is The Classic Collection of Katherine Anne Porter (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 28
- Published
- 1922–2025
- Pages on record
- 3,033 in 7 of 28 books
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), born Callie Russell Porter, was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Critics rated her short fiction above her novels, and The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter took both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award in 1966. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools outsold every other novel in the United States that year. The catalogue holds 28 titles dated 1922 to 2025, including Flowering Judas and Other Stories, Noon Wine and Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
How many Katherine Anne Porter books are there?
Katherine Anne Porter has 28 books, released between 1922 and 2025. 10 of them were published after Katherine Anne Porter's death in 1980.
Katherine Anne Porter Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 28 Katherine Anne Porter 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.
- 1Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts1922 · confirmed 1/41922–1/4
- 2Hacienda1934 · confirmed 1/41934–1/4
- 3Flowering Judas and Other Stories1935 · confirmed 1/41935–1/4
- 4Noon Wine1937 · confirmed 1/41937–1/4
- 5Pale Horse, Pale Rider1939 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/419392081/4
- 6Downward Path to Wisdom1939 · confirmed 1/41939–1/4
- 7Eudora Welty1941 · confirmed 1/41941–1/4
- 8The Leaning Tower And Other Stories1944 · confirmed 1/41944–1/4
- 9The Flower of Flowers1950 · confirmed 1/41950–1/4
- 10The Days Before1952 · confirmed 1/41952–1/4
- 11Gertrude Stein, a self-portrait1953 · confirmed 1/41953–1/4
- 12The Old Order1955 · confirmed 1/41955–1/4
- 13A Wreath for the Gamekeeper1959 · confirmed 1/41959–1/4
- 14Ship of Fools1962 · confirmed 1/41962–1/4
- 15Gracious Greatness1964 · confirmed 1/41964–1/4
- 16The Collected Stories1965 · 546 pages · confirmed 1/419655461/4
- 17Collected Essays and Occasional Writings1973 · confirmed 1/41973–1/4
- 18The Never-Ending Wrong1977 · confirmed 1/41977–1/4
- 19Old Mortality1988 · confirmed 1/41988–1/4
- 20Letters of Katherine A. Porter1990 · 642 pages · confirmed 1/419906421/4
- 21Uncollected Early Prose1993 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/419932921/4
- 22Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry1996 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/419961881/4
- 23This Strange, Old World and Other Book Reviews2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 24Collected Stories and Other Writings2008 · 1093 pages · confirmed 1/4200810931/4
- 25Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 26The Grave2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 27The Cracked Looking-Glass2018 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/42018641/4
- 28The Classic Collection of Katherine Anne Porter2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Katherine Anne Porter 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
28 books28 Katherine Anne Porter titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Katherine Anne Porter books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 28 Katherine Anne Porter books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Katherine Anne Porter
Start with Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts (1922), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Katherine Anne Porter book?
The Classic Collection of Katherine Anne Porter (2025) is the newest Katherine Anne Porter book released so far.
Is there a new Katherine Anne Porter book coming?
No next Katherine Anne Porter 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 Katherine Anne Porter has won
Wikidata records 4 awards and 6 nominations for Katherine Anne Porter. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Award1966Wonfor The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1966Wonfor The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal1962Won
- O. Henry Award1962Won
- National Book Award for Fiction1966Shortlistedfor The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- Nobel Prize in Literature1966Shortlisted
- Nobel Prize in Literature1965Shortlisted
- Nobel Prize in Literature1964Shortlisted
- National Book Award for Fiction1963Shortlistedfor Ship of Fools
- National Book Award for Nonfiction1953Shortlisted
Katherine Anne Porter at a glance
- Died
- Katherine Anne Porter died in 1980, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Katherine Anne Porter are still being published after Katherine Anne Porter's death in 1980; the newest appeared in 2025.
- Release pace
- Katherine Anne Porter books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 3,033 pages across the 7 of 28 books with a recorded length, a median of 292 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Katherine Anne Porter books, 5 of 28, were published in the 1950s.
What the Katherine Anne Porter books are about
11 of the 28 Katherine Anne Porter books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Short stories 4 of 11 books
- Authors 2 of 11 books
- Correspondence 2 of 11 books
- Manners and customs 2 of 11 books
- Porter, katherine anne, 1890-1980 2 of 11 books