Margaret Mitchell Books in Order
Margaret Mitchell has written 6 books, published between 1987 and 2002. The first book is Gone with the Wind Letters (1987) and the newest is I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 1987–2002
- Pages on record
- 1,301 in 5 of 6 books
- Reading time
- 22–33 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,301 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 6 titles with a page count on record.
The Margaret Mitchell titles catalogued here are collections assembled long after Mitchell's lifetime: letters, girlhood writings and journalism rather than novels. Gone with the Wind Letters (1987) leads, followed by Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee (1989), Lost Laysen (1996), Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings (2000), Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000) and I Want to Be Famous (2002). Six books are catalogued in all, and authorship, correspondence and the Civil War in Georgia are the recurring subjects.
How many Margaret Mitchell books are there?
Margaret Mitchell has 6 books, released between 1987 and 2002.
Margaret Mitchell Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 6 Margaret Mitchell 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.
- 1Gone with the Wind Letters1987 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/419874801/4
- 2Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-19211989 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/419891501/4
- 3Lost Laysen1996 · 127 pages · confirmed 1/419961271/4
- 4Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell2000 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/420002141/4
- 5Margaret Mitchell, Reporter2000 · 330 pages · confirmed 1/420003301/4
- 6I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell2002 · confirmed 1/42002–1/4
Margaret Mitchell 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
6 books6 Margaret Mitchell titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Margaret Mitchell books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 6 Margaret Mitchell books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Margaret Mitchell
Start with Gone with the Wind Letters (1987), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Margaret Mitchell book?
I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002) is the newest Margaret Mitchell book released so far.
Is there a new Margaret Mitchell book coming?
No next Margaret Mitchell book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Margaret Mitchell at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Margaret Mitchell title on record dates from 2002, 24 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Margaret Mitchell books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,301 pages across the 5 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 214 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Margaret Mitchell books, 3 of 6, were published in the 2000s.
What the Margaret Mitchell books are about
5 of the 6 Margaret Mitchell books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: novelists is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Novelists 2 of 5 books
- Correspondence 2 of 5 books
- American literature 1 of 5 books
- American newspapers 1 of 5 books
- Authorship 1 of 5 books
- Children's writings 1 of 5 books
- Children's writings, American 1 of 5 books
- Feature stories 1 of 5 books
- Georgia Civil War, 1861-1865 1 of 5 books
- Historical fiction 1 of 5 books
- History 1 of 5 books