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Miriam Toews Books in Order

Miriam Toews has written 10 books, published between 1996 and 2025. The first book is Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996) and the newest is A Truce That Is Not Peace (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1996–2025
Pages on record
2,022 in 8 of 10 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,022 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Miriam Toews, author

Miriam Toews is a Canadian novelist, born in 1964, with ten catalogued books published between 1996 and 2025. Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996) opens the list; A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014) and Women Talking (2018) are the best known. Mennonite life, Manitoba, single mothers, sisters and family life recur as subjects. Toews has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize twice, was three times a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and took the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for the body of work. Acting in Carlos Reygadas's film Silent Light, winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, fed the fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011).

How many Miriam Toews books are there?

Miriam Toews has 10 books, released between 1996 and 2025.

Miriam Toews Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Miriam Toews 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 Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews (1996)
  2. Cover of A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews (1998)
  3. Cover of Swing Low by Miriam Toews (2000)
  4. Cover of A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (2004)
  5. Cover of The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews (2008)
  6. Cover of Irma Voth by Miriam Toews (2011)
  7. Cover of All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (2014)
  8. Cover of Women Talking by Miriam Toews (2018)
  1. 1
    Summer of My Amazing Luck1996 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996220
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  2. 2
    A Boy of Good Breeding1998 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998237
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  3. 3
    Swing Low2000 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000228
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  4. 4
    A Complicated Kindness2004 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004256
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  5. 5
    The Flying Troutmans2008 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008256
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  6. 6
    Irma Voth2011 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011255
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  7. 7
    All My Puny Sorrows2014 · 330 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014330
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  8. 8
    Women Talking2018 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018240
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  9. 9
    Fight Night2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  10. 10
    A Truce That Is Not Peace2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Miriam Toews 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

10 books

10 Miriam Toews titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Miriam Toews books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 Miriam Toews books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Miriam Toews

Start with Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Miriam Toews book?

A Truce That Is Not Peace (2025) is the newest Miriam Toews book released so far.

Is there a new Miriam Toews book coming?

No next Miriam Toews 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 Miriam Toews has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Miriam Toews. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Miriam Toews at a glance

Still publishing
Miriam Toews published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Miriam Toews books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,022 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 248 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Miriam Toews books, 3 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Miriam Toews books are about

8 of the 10 Miriam Toews books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mennonites is tagged on 5 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.