Marianne Wiggins Books in Order

Marianne Wiggins has written 11 books, published between 1980 and 2022. The first book is Went South (1980) and the newest is Properties of Thirst (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1980–2022
Pages on record
2,393 in 9 of 11 books
Reading time
40–60 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,393 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

Marianne Wiggins, born November 8, 1947, is an American author whose novel Evidence of Things Unseen was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction. Wiggins has received a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English credits Wiggins with bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy. Titles include Separate Checks (1984), John Dollar (1989), Eveless Eden (1995), The Shadow Catcher (2007) and Properties of Thirst (2022).

How many Marianne Wiggins books are there?

Marianne Wiggins has 11 books, released between 1980 and 2022.

Marianne Wiggins Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Marianne Wiggins 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. 1
    Went South1980 · 344 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980344
  2. 2
    Separate Checks1984 · 271 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984271
  3. 3
    Herself in Love1987 · 183 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987183
  4. 4
    John Dollar1989 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989224
  5. 5
    Bet They'll Miss Us When We're Gone1991 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991192
  6. 6
    Eveless Eden1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995
  7. 7
    Almost Heaven1998 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998224
  8. 8
    Evidence of Things Unseen2003 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003400
  9. 9
    The Shadow Catcher2007 · 323 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007323
  10. 10
    Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First CenturyM.K. Brown Range Life #22008 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008232
  11. 11
    Properties of Thirst2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Marianne Wiggins 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.

M.K. Brown Range Life in order

1 book
  1. 2. Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century

Standalone books

10 books

10 Marianne Wiggins titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Marianne Wiggins books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Marianne Wiggins books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Marianne Wiggins

Start with Went South (1980), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Marianne Wiggins book?

Properties of Thirst (2022) is the newest Marianne Wiggins book released so far.

Is there a new Marianne Wiggins book coming?

No next Marianne Wiggins book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Marianne Wiggins at a glance

Paused
No new Marianne Wiggins title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Marianne Wiggins books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,393 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 232 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Marianne Wiggins books, 4 of 11, were published in the 1980s.

What the Marianne Wiggins books are about

9 of the 11 Marianne Wiggins books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: journalists is tagged on 2 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.