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Sherwood Anderson Books in Order

48 books are credited to Sherwood Anderson, published between 1916 and 1997; 21 of them appeared after Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941. The first book is Windy McPherson's Son (1916) and the newest is Southern Odyssey (1997). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
48
Published
1916–1997
Pages on record
8,301 in 32 of 48 books
Reading time
138–208 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,301 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 48 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Sherwood Anderson, author

Sherwood Anderson, an American short story writer and novelist, worked in a subjective, self-revealing register. Anderson ran a business in Ohio until a breakdown in 1912 sent him to Chicago and to writing. The short-story sequence Winesburg, Ohio (1919) launched that career and remains his most durable book. This catalogue lists 48 titles dated 1916 to 1997, beginning with Windy McPherson's Son (1916), and the 1920s were his heaviest decade, taking in novels, story collections, memoirs, essays and poetry.

How many Sherwood Anderson books are there?

Sherwood Anderson has 48 books, released between 1916 and 1997. 21 of them were published after Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941.

Sherwood Anderson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 48 Sherwood Anderson 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 Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson (1916)
  2. Cover of Mid American Chants by Sherwood Anderson (1918)
  3. Cover of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
  4. Cover of The Egg and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson (1921)
  5. Cover of A Story Teller's Story by Sherwood Anderson (1924)
  6. Cover of Death in the Woods and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson (1924)
  7. Cover of The Teller's Tales by Sherwood Anderson (1924)
  8. Cover of Sherwood Anderson's Notebook by Sherwood Anderson (1926)
  9. Cover of Tar by Sherwood Anderson (1926)
  10. Cover of Home Town by Sherwood Anderson (1940)
  11. Cover of The Buck Fever Papers by Sherwood Anderson (1971)
  12. Cover of Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein by Sherwood Anderson (1972)
  13. Cover of Paul Rosenfeld, Voyager in the Arts by Sherwood Anderson (1978)
  14. Cover of Sherwood Anderson: The Writer at His Craft by Sherwood Anderson (1979)
  15. Cover of Selected Letters by Sherwood Anderson (1983)
  16. Cover of Kit Brandon by Sherwood Anderson (1985)
  17. Cover of Letters to Bab by Sherwood Anderson (1985)
  18. Cover of The Sherwood Anderson Diaries, 1936-1941 by Sherwood Anderson (1987)
  19. Cover of Early Writings by Sherwood Anderson (1989)
  20. Cover of Sherwood Anderson's Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson by Sherwood Anderson (1989)
  21. Cover of Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters by Sherwood Anderson (1991)
  22. Cover of Certain Things Last by Sherwood Anderson (1992)
  23. Cover of Southern Odyssey by Sherwood Anderson (1997)
  1. 1
    Windy McPherson's Son1916 · 361 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1916361
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  2. 2
    Marching Men1917 · 102 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1917102
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  3. 3
    Mid American Chants1918 · 70 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191870
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  4. 4
    Winesburg, Ohio1919 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1919238
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  5. 5
    Sophistication1919 · confirmed 1/4
    1919–
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  6. 6
    Poor White1920 · confirmed 1/4
    1920–
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  7. 8
    The Triumph of the Egg1921 · confirmed 1/4
    1921–
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  8. 9
    Many Marriages1922 · confirmed 1/4
    1922–
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  9. 10
    Horses and Men1923 · confirmed 1/4
    1923–
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  10. 11
    A Story Teller's Story1924 · 442 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1924442
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  11. 13
    The Teller's Tales1924 · 229 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1924229
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  12. 14
    A Meeting South1925 · confirmed 1/4
    1925–
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  13. 15
    Sherwood Anderson's Notebook1926 · 230 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1926230
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  14. 16
    Tar1926 · 257 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1926257
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  15. 17
    Dark Laughter1926 · confirmed 1/4
    1926–
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  16. 18
    Alice and The Lost Novel1929 · 27 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192927
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  17. 19
    Hello Towns!1929 · 339 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1929339
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  18. 20
    Nearer the Grass Roots1929 · 34 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192934
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  19. 21
    Perhaps Women1931 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1931143
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  20. 22
    Beyond Desire1932 · confirmed 1/4
    1932–
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  21. 23
    No Swank1934 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1934144
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  22. 24
    Dreiser1936 · confirmed 1/4
    1936–
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  23. 25
    Plays: Winesburg and Others1937 · confirmed 1/4
    1937–
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  24. 26
    Home Town1940 · 145 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1940145
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  25. 27
    San Francisco at Christmas1941 · confirmed 1/4
    1941–
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  26. 28
    Selected Stories1945 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1945208
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  27. 29
    The Portable Sherwood Anderson1949 · 497 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1949497
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  28. 30
    Letters of Sherwood Anderson1953 · confirmed 1/4
    1953–
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Sherwood Anderson 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

48 books

48 Sherwood Anderson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sherwood Anderson books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 48 Sherwood Anderson books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sherwood Anderson

Start with Windy McPherson's Son (1916), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sherwood Anderson book?

Southern Odyssey (1997) is the newest Sherwood Anderson book released so far.

Is there a new Sherwood Anderson book coming?

No next Sherwood Anderson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Sherwood Anderson at a glance

Died
Sherwood Anderson died in 1941, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Sherwood Anderson are still being published after Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941; the newest appeared in 1997.
Release pace
Sherwood Anderson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
8,301 pages across the 32 of 48 books with a recorded length, a median of 258 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sherwood Anderson books, 15 of 48, were published in the 1920s.

What the Sherwood Anderson books are about

28 of the 48 Sherwood Anderson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: authors is tagged on 10 of 28. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Authors 10 of 28 books
  • Anderson, sherwood, 1876-1941 6 of 28 books
  • Correspondence 5 of 28 books
  • Social life and customs 5 of 28 books
  • American literature 4 of 28 books
  • Short stories 4 of 28 books
  • Social conditions 4 of 28 books
  • Biography 3 of 28 books
  • Cities and towns 3 of 28 books
  • Authors, biography 2 of 28 books
  • History 2 of 28 books