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Lidia Yuknavitch Books in Order

Lidia Yuknavitch has written 13 books, published between 1997 and 2025. The first book is Her Other Mouths (1997) and the newest is Reading the Waves: A Memoir (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1997–2025
Pages on record
2,056 in 10 of 13 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,056 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Lidia Yuknavitch, author

Lidia Yuknavitch, born in 1963, is an American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon. The memoir The Chronology of Water and the novels The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase and The Book of Joan are among her 13 catalogued books. Her TED talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit, produced the companion book The Misfit's Manifesto (2017). Recorded subjects include women artists and authors, fathers and daughters, depression and psychotherapy. The catalogue opens with Her Other Mouths (1997) and reaches Reading the Waves: A Memoir in 2025.

How many Lidia Yuknavitch books are there?

Lidia Yuknavitch has 13 books, released between 1997 and 2025.

Lidia Yuknavitch Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Lidia Yuknavitch 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.

  1. Cover of Her Other Mouths by Lidia Yuknavitch (1997)
  2. Cover of Liberty's Excess by Lidia Yuknavitch (2000)
  3. Cover of Real to Reel by Lidia Yuknavitch (2003)
  4. Cover of Dora by Lidia Yuknavitch (2012)
  5. Cover of The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch (2015)
  6. Cover of The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch (2017)
  7. Cover of The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (2017)
  8. Cover of Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch (2022)
  1. 1
    Her Other Mouths1997 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997120
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Liberty's Excess2000 · 177 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000177
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Allegories of ViolenceLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory #22001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Real to Reel2003 · 175 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003175
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Dora2012 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012237
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Small Backs of Children2015 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    The Misfit's Manifesto2017 · 137 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017137
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Book of Joan2017 · 266 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017266
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    The Chronology of Water2019 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019288
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Letter to My Rage: An Evolution2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Verge2020 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020208
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Thrust2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Reading the Waves: A Memoir2025 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2025224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Lidia Yuknavitch 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.

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory in order

1 book
  1. 2. Allegories of Violence

Standalone books

12 books

12 Lidia Yuknavitch titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Lidia Yuknavitch books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 13 Lidia Yuknavitch books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Lidia Yuknavitch

Start with Her Other Mouths (1997), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lidia Yuknavitch book?

Reading the Waves: A Memoir (2025) is the newest Lidia Yuknavitch book released so far.

Is there a new Lidia Yuknavitch book coming?

No next Lidia Yuknavitch 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 Lidia Yuknavitch has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Lidia Yuknavitch. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Lidia Yuknavitch at a glance

Still publishing
Lidia Yuknavitch published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Lidia Yuknavitch books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,056 pages across the 10 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 216 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lidia Yuknavitch books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Lidia Yuknavitch books are about

10 of the 13 Lidia Yuknavitch 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 5 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.