Pat Conroy Books in Order
Pat Conroy has written 13 books, published between 1970 and 2016. The first book is The Boo (1970) and the newest is A Lowcountry Heart (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1970–2016
- Confirmed
- 13 of 13 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,693 in 10 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,693 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Pat Conroy wrote fiction and memoir about fathers and sons, families and the American South. 13 catalogued books run from The Boo (1970) to A Lowcountry Heart, including The Water is Wide (1972), an account of teaching at Yamacraw Elementary School, and the novels The Great Santini (1976), The Lords of Discipline (1980), The Prince of Tides (1986) and Beach Music (1995). Conroy published standalone novels and non-fiction rather than a series. The catalogue is likely complete.
How many Pat Conroy books are there?
Pat Conroy has 13 books, released between 1970 and 2016.
Pat Conroy Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Pat Conroy books in the order they were released, 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.
- 11970–3/4
- 219722943/4
- 319764713/4
- 419805763/4
- 519866643/4
- 619957843/4
- 720024023/4
- 820042833/4
- 920095443/4
- 1020103373/4
- 112010–3/4
- 1220133383/4
- 132016–3/4
Pat Conroy 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.
Pat Conroy Standalone Novels
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Pat Conroy Non-Fiction
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Pat Conroy Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Pat Conroy books run from The Boo (1970) to A Lowcountry Heart (2016), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Pat Conroy in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Pat Conroy books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 13 Pat Conroy books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
What order should you read Pat Conroy books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with The Boo (1970), the earliest published title. After it come The Water is Wide (1972), The Great Santini (1976), The Lords of Discipline (1980) and The Prince of Tides (1986); the numbered table above continues from there.
What is the newest Pat Conroy book?
A Lowcountry Heart (2016) is the newest Pat Conroy book released so far.
Is there a new Pat Conroy book coming?
No next Pat Conroy 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 Pat Conroy has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Pat Conroy. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Lillian Smith Book Award1981Won
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1973Won
Pat Conroy at a glance
- Died
- Pat Conroy died in 2016, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Pat Conroy on record dates from 2016.
- Release pace
- Pat Conroy books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 4,693 pages across the 10 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 436 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Pat Conroy books, 4 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
What the Pat Conroy books are about
11 of the 13 Pat Conroy books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 5 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 5 of 11 books
- Authors, biography 3 of 11 books
- Authors 2 of 11 books
- Fathers and sons 2 of 11 books