Rick Bragg Books in Order
Rick Bragg has written 13 books, published between 1997 and 2021. The first book is All Over But the Shoutin' (1997) and the newest is The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1997–2021
- Total pages
- 4,060 across 13 books
- Reading time
- 68–102 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,060 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Rick Bragg's 13 catalogued books run from All Over But the Shoutin' (1997) to The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found (2021). Bragg writes nonfiction about the American South: memoir, biography, reported essays and the social history of working-class white families. Ava's Man (2001), The Prince of Frogtown (2008), The Most They Ever Had (2009) and Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (2014) fall inside that run. Bragg took a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his journalism at The New York Times, and his books return often to his own family in Alabama. Nothing new has been catalogued since 2021.
How many Rick Bragg books are there?
Rick Bragg has 13 books, released between 1997 and 2021.
Rick Bragg Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Rick Bragg 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.
- 1All Over But the Shoutin'1997 · 329 pages · confirmed 1/419973291/4
- 2Redbirds: Memories from the South1998 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/419983521/4
- 3Wooden Churches: A Celebration1999 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/419991221/4
- 4Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg2000 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420002881/4
- 5Ava's Man2001 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/420012591/4
- 6I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story2003 · 207 pages · confirmed 1/420032071/4
- 7The Prince of Frogtown2008 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420082881/4
- 8The Most They Ever Had2009 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/420091561/4
- 9Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story2014 · 498 pages · confirmed 1/420144981/4
- 10My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South2015 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/420152541/4
- 11The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table2018 · 795 pages · confirmed 1/420187951/4
- 12Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South2020 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420202561/4
- 13The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found2021 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420212561/4
Rick Bragg 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
13 books13 Rick Bragg titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Rick Bragg books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 13 Rick Bragg books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Rick Bragg
Start with All Over But the Shoutin' (1997), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Rick Bragg book?
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found (2021) is the newest Rick Bragg book released so far.
Is there a new Rick Bragg book coming?
No next Rick Bragg 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 Rick Bragg has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Rick Bragg. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing1996Won
Rick Bragg at a glance
- Paused
- No new Rick Bragg title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Rick Bragg books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,060 pages across all 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 259 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rick Bragg books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2000s.
What the Rick Bragg books are about
All 13 Rick Bragg 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 9 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 9 of 13 books
- Journalists 3 of 13 books
- Nonfiction 3 of 13 books
- Social life and customs 3 of 13 books
- Working class whites 3 of 13 books
- Childhood and youth 2 of 13 books
- Family life 2 of 13 books
- Rural conditions 2 of 13 books
- Social conditions 2 of 13 books
- Southern states, biography 2 of 13 books