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Meg Wolitzer Books in Order

Meg Wolitzer has written 23 books, published between 1982 and 2026. The first book is Sleepwalking (1982) and the newest is Found Sound (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
1982–2026
Pages on record
4,355 in 18 of 23 books
Reading time
73–109 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,355 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 23 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Meg Wolitzer, author of the Operation Save the Teacher series

Meg Wolitzer, born May 28, 1959, is an American novelist whose books include The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings and The Female Persuasion. Wolitzer co-directs the BookEnds writing fellowship at Stony Brook Southampton. The catalogue holds 23 books from Sleepwalking (1982) to Found Sound (2026), with Caribou (1985), Hidden Pictures (1986), The Dream Book (1986) and Friends for Life (1994) among the earlier titles. Operation Save the Teacher is the listed series, and children's fiction, teachers, friendship and New York appear in the subjects.

How many Meg Wolitzer books are there?

Meg Wolitzer has 23 books, released between 1982 and 2026. 3 of them belong to the Operation Save the Teacher series.

Meg Wolitzer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Meg Wolitzer 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 Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (1982)
  2. Cover of Caribou by Meg Wolitzer (1985)
  3. Cover of Hidden Pictures by Meg Wolitzer (1986)
  4. Cover of Nutcrackers by Meg Wolitzer (1991)
  5. Cover of Saturday Night Toast by Meg Wolitzer, book 1 of the Operation Save the Teacher series (1993)
  6. Cover of Wednesday Night Match by Meg Wolitzer, book 2 of the Operation Save the Teacher series (1993)
  7. Cover of Fitzgerald Did It by Meg Wolitzer (1999)
  8. Cover of Surrender, Dorothy by Meg Wolitzer (1999)
  9. Cover of The Wife by Meg Wolitzer (2003)
  10. Cover of The Position by Meg Wolitzer (2005)
  11. Cover of The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (2013)
  12. Cover of To Night Owl from Dogfish by Meg Wolitzer, book 4 of the Holly Goldberg Sloan Children's series (2019)
  13. Cover of Millions of Maxes by Meg Wolitzer (2021)
  1. 1
    Sleepwalking1982 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982272
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  2. 2
    Caribou1985 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985176
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  3. 3
    The Dream Book1986 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986160
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  4. 4
    Hidden Pictures1986 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986288
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  5. 5
    This is Your Life aka This Is My Life1988 · 329 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988329
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  6. 6
    Nutcrackers1991 · 173 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991173
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  7. 7
    Saturday Night ToastOperation Save the Teacher #11993 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993122
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  8. 8
    Wednesday Night MatchOperation Save the Teacher #21993 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993122
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  9. 9
    Tuesday Night PieOperation Save the Teacher #31993 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993124
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  10. 10
    Friends for Life1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  11. 11
    Fitzgerald Did It1999 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999193
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  12. 12
    Surrender, Dorothy1999 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999240
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  13. 13
    The Wife2003 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003224
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  14. 14
    The Position2005 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005320
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  15. 15
    The Ten-Year Nap2008 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008352
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  16. 16
    The Uncoupling2011 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011288
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  17. 17
    The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  18. 18
    The Interestings2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  19. 19
    Belzhar2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  20. 20
    The Female Persuasion2018 · 628 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018628
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  21. 21
    To Night Owl from DogfishHolly Goldberg Sloan Children's #42019 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019304
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  22. 22
    Millions of Maxes2021 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202140
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  23. 23
    Found Sound2026 · confirmed 1/4
    2026–
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Meg Wolitzer 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.

Operation Save the Teacher in order

3 books
  1. 1. Saturday Night Toast
  2. 2. Wednesday Night Match
  3. 3. Tuesday Night Pie

Holly Goldberg Sloan Children's in order

1 book
  1. 4. To Night Owl from Dogfish

Standalone books

19 books

19 Meg Wolitzer titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Meg Wolitzer books in order?

You only need to read Meg Wolitzer books in order within the Operation Save the Teacher series, which holds 3 of the 23 Meg Wolitzer books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Meg Wolitzer

Start with Sleepwalking (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Meg Wolitzer book?

Found Sound (2026) is the newest Meg Wolitzer book released so far.

Is there a new Meg Wolitzer book coming?

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

Meg Wolitzer at a glance

Still publishing
Meg Wolitzer published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Meg Wolitzer books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
4,355 pages across the 18 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 232 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Meg Wolitzer books, 7 of 23, were published in the 1990s.

What the Meg Wolitzer books are about

21 of the 23 Meg Wolitzer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 7 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.