Louis L’Amour Books in Order: All 183 books (1939

How many Louis L’Amour books are there?

Louis L’Amour has 183 books, released between 1939 and 2019. 65 of them were published after Louis L’Amour's death in 1988. They include 6 separate series.

Louis L’Amour Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 183 Louis L’Amour books in the order they were released, 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.

Cover of Smoke from This Altar by Louis L’Amour, book 1 of the Louis L'Amour Short Story series (1939)

Cover of A Trail To the West by Louis L’Amour, book 1 of the Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas series (1947)

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Louis L’Amour series and characters in order

Each link below opens a reading-order page with every book in publication order.

Louis L’Amour books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.

Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels

68 books

68 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Louis L'Amour Short Story

42 books

42 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures in order

25 books

1. Hondo
3. Taggart
4. Shalako
5. How the West Was Won
6. Kid Rodelo
7. Down the Long Hills
8. The Man Called Noon
9. The Empty Land
10. Fallon
11. Reilly's Luck
12. Callaghen
16. Westward the Tide
and 13 more in the table above

Sacketts books in order

19 books by Louis L’Amour

1. The Daybreakers
2. Sackett
3. Lando
4. Mojave Crossing
5. The Sackett Brand
6. Mustang Man
7. The Sky-Liners
8. The Lonely Men
9. Galloway
10. Ride the Dark Trail
11. Treasure Mountain
12. War Party
and 7 more in the table above

Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction

7 books

7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Chantry in order

5 books

1. North to the Rails
2. Fair Blows the Wind
3. The Ferguson Rifle
4. Over on the Dry Side
5. Borden Chantry

Hopalong Cassidy in order

4 books

1. The Riders of High Rock
2. The Rustlers of West Fork
3. The Trail to Seven Pines
4. Trouble Shooter

Louis L' Amour Short Stories/Novellas

3 books

3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Talon in order

3 books

1. Rivers West
2. The Man from the Broken Hills
3. Milo Talon

Bowdrie in order

1 book

1. McNelly Knows a Ranger

Louis L’Amour Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Louis L’Amour books run from Smoke from This Altar (1939) to Bannon (2019), the sequence in the table above. Sacketts and Kilkenny also have separate in-universe orders on record: Sacketts books in chronological order and Kilkenny books in chronological order. No other Louis L’Amour story order is on record.

Do you have to read Louis L’Amour books in order?

You only need to read Louis L’Amour books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Louis L’Amour

Start with the first book of the Louis L’Amour series you want to read: Kilkenny starts with Kilkenny (1954), Sackett starts with The Daybreakers (1960) and Talon & Chantry starts with North to the Rails (1971). The earliest catalogued title overall is Smoke from This Altar (1939).

What is the newest Louis L’Amour book?

Bannon (2019) is the newest Louis L’Amour book released so far.

Is there a new Louis L’Amour book coming?

No next Louis L’Amour 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 Louis L’Amour has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Louis L’Amour. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Owen Wister Award1981Won
National Book Award1980Won

Louis L’Amour at a glance

Died: Louis L’Amour died in 1988, according to Wikidata.
After death: Books credited to Louis L’Amour are still being published after Louis L’Amour's death in 1988; the newest appeared in 2019.
Release pace: Louis L’Amour books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 20,352 pages across the 88 of 183 books with a recorded length, a median of 196 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Louis L’Amour books, 42 of 183, were published in the 1980s.

What the Louis L’Amour books are about

102 of the 183 Louis L’Amour books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: westerns is tagged on 87 of 102. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Westerns 87 of 102 books
Fiction in English 27 of 102 books
Frontier and pioneer life 26 of 102 books
Sackett family (Fictitious characters) 19 of 102 books
History 9 of 102 books
Short stories 7 of 102 books
American literature 5 of 102 books
Cassidy, hopalong (fictitious character) 4 of 102 books
Children's fiction 4 of 102 books
Hopalong Cassidy (Fictitious character) 4 of 102 books