Sarah Manguso Books in Order
Sarah Manguso has written 10 books, published between 2002 and 2025. The first book is The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002) and the newest is I Am Clarence (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2002–2025
- Confirmed
- 1 of 10 titles
- Pages on record
- 377 in 3 of 10 books
Sarah Manguso, born 1974, is an American writer and poet. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Manguso the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature in 2007. The memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008) was named an Editors' Choice title by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a best non-fiction book of 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle, and Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015) drew a second Editors' Choice. Penguin published a debut novel, Very Cold People, in 2022. The catalogue holds 10 titles from The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002) to I Am Clarence (2025), with poetry, essays and aphorisms in the subject records.
How many Sarah Manguso books are there?
Sarah Manguso has 10 books, released between 2002 and 2025.
Sarah Manguso Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Sarah Manguso 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.
- 1The Captain Lands in Paradise2002 · confirmed 1/42002–1/4
- 2Siste Viator2006 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/42006631/4
- 3The Two Kinds of Decay2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 4The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 5Ongoingness: The End of a Diary2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 6300 Arguments2017 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/42017901/4
- 7Very Cold People2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 8Liars2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 9Questions Without Answers2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 1020252243/4
Sarah Manguso 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.
Modern Library Torchbearers in order
1 book- 31. I Am Clarence
Standalone books
9 books9 Sarah Manguso titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sarah Manguso books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Sarah Manguso books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Sarah Manguso
Start with The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sarah Manguso book?
I Am Clarence (2025) is the newest Sarah Manguso book released so far.
Is there a new Sarah Manguso book coming?
No next Sarah Manguso book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sarah Manguso at a glance
- Still publishing
- Sarah Manguso published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Sarah Manguso books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 377 pages across the 3 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 90 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sarah Manguso books, 4 of 10, were published in the 2020s.
What the Sarah Manguso books are about
2 of the 10 Sarah Manguso books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Aphorisms and apothegms 1 of 2 books
- Conduct of life 1 of 2 books
- Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims 1 of 2 books
- Essays 1 of 2 books
- Poetry 1 of 2 books
- Quotations, maxims 1 of 2 books