Quan Barry Books in Order
Quan Barry has written 8 books, published between 2001 and 2025. The first book is Asylum (2001) and the newest is The Unveiling (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2001–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,213 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 20–30 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,213 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Amy Quan Barry, born in Saigon, is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist and playwright, and holds the Lorraine Hansberry Professorship of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barry has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The 8 catalogued books span 2001 to 2025, from Asylum (2001) to The Unveiling (2025), with Controvertibles (2004), Water Puppets (2011), Loose Strife (2015), She Weeps Each Time You're Born (2015), We Ride Upon Sticks (2020) and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East (2022) between. Subjects record American poetry, families and psychic ability.
How many Quan Barry books are there?
Quan Barry has 8 books, released between 2001 and 2025.
Quan Barry Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Quan Barry 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.
- 12001–1/4
- 2Controvertibles2004 · 61 pages · confirmed 1/42004611/4
- 3Water Puppets2011 · 74 pages · confirmed 1/42011741/4
- 4She Weeps Each Time You're Born2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 5Loose Strife2015 · 72 pages · confirmed 1/42015721/4
- 6We Ride Upon Sticks2020 · 366 pages · confirmed 1/420203661/4
- 7When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East2022 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420223201/4
- 8The Unveiling2025 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420253201/4
Quan Barry 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.
Pitt Poetry in order
1 book- 80. Asylum
Standalone books
7 books7 Quan Barry titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Quan Barry books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Quan Barry books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Quan Barry
Start with Asylum (2001), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Quan Barry book?
The Unveiling (2025) is the newest Quan Barry book released so far.
Is there a new Quan Barry book coming?
No next Quan Barry book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Quan Barry at a glance
- Still publishing
- Quan Barry published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Quan Barry books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,213 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 197 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Quan Barry books, 3 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Quan Barry books are about
7 of the 8 Quan Barry books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- American literature 3 of 7 books
- Poetry 3 of 7 books
- Women authors 2 of 7 books