Michael Cunningham Books in Order
Michael Cunningham has written 11 books, published between 1984 and 2023. The first book is Golden States (1984) and the newest is Day (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1984–2023
- Pages on record
- 2,429 in 9 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 40–61 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,429 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
The Hours (1998) won Michael Cunningham the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999, and a 2022 edition pairs it with Mrs. Dalloway. Cunningham, born in 1952, is an American novelist and screenwriter and Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University. Golden States (1984) opens the catalogue, with A Home at the End of the World (1990), Flesh and Blood (1995), Specimen Days (2005), By Nightfall (2010) and The Snow Queen (2014) after it. Gay men, male friendship, families, parents and children, and AIDS run through the fiction. Eleven books are catalogued to 2023.
How many Michael Cunningham books are there?
Michael Cunningham has 11 books, released between 1984 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Michael Cunningham series.
Michael Cunningham Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Michael Cunningham 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.
- 1Golden States1984 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/419842411/4
- 2A Home at the End of the World1990 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/419903521/4
- 3Flesh and Blood1995 · 465 pages · confirmed 1/419954651/4
- 4The Hours1998 · 230 pages · confirmed 1/419982301/4
- 5Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown2002 · 175 pages · confirmed 1/420021751/4
- 6Specimen Days2005 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420053361/4
- 7By Nightfall2010 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/420102381/4
- 8The Snow Queen2014 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/420142581/4
- 920151341/4
- 102022–1/4
- 11Day2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
Michael Cunningham 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.
Michael Cunningham in order
2 booksStandalone books
9 books9 Michael Cunningham titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Cunningham books in order?
You only need to read Michael Cunningham books in order within the Michael Cunningham series, which holds 2 of the 11 Michael Cunningham books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Michael Cunningham
Start with Golden States (1984), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Cunningham book?
Day (2023) is the newest Michael Cunningham book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Cunningham book coming?
No next Michael Cunningham 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 Michael Cunningham has won
Wikidata records 3 awards for Michael Cunningham. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Fernanda Pivano Award for American Literature2011Won
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction1999Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1999Wonfor The Hours
Michael Cunningham at a glance
- Paused
- No new Michael Cunningham title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Michael Cunningham books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 2,429 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 241 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Cunningham books, 3 of 11, were published in the 2010s.
What the Michael Cunningham books are about
9 of the 11 Michael Cunningham books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: gay men is tagged on 2 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.