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Sue Miller Books in Order

Sue Miller has written 14 books, published between 1986 and 2020. The first book is The Good Mother (1986) and the newest is Monogamy (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
1986–2020
Total pages
4,184 across 14 books
Reading time
70–105 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,184 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

See all 14 books in order Printable Sue Miller checklist

Sue Miller, born 29 November 1943, is an American novelist and short story writer and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Miller's books include The Good Mother (1986), Inventing the Abbotts (1987), Family Pictures (1990), While I Was Gone (1999), Lost in the Forest (2005) and Monogamy (2020). The catalogue subjects list domestic fiction, psychological fiction, married people, aging parents and divorced women.

Sue Miller received the Henfield Prize, the Carl Sandburg Prize and the Kate Chopin Award, and one of her novels was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She has also written a memoir about her father.

How many Sue Miller books are there?

Sue Miller has 14 books, released between 1986 and 2020.

Sue Miller Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Sue Miller 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 The Good Mother by Sue Miller (1986)
  2. Cover of Inventing the Abbotts by Sue Miller (1987)
  3. Cover of Family Pictures by Sue Miller (1990)
  4. Cover of For Love by Sue Miller (1993)
  5. Cover of The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller (1995)
  6. Cover of While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (1999)
  7. Cover of The World Below by Sue Miller (2001)
  8. Cover of The Best American Short Stories 2002 by Sue Miller, book 1 of the Best American Short Stories series (2002)
  9. Cover of The Story of My Father by Sue Miller (2003)
  10. Cover of Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller (2005)
  11. Cover of The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller (2008)
  12. Cover of The Arsonist by Sue Miller (2014)
  13. Cover of Monogamy by Sue Miller (2020)
  1. 1
    The Good Mother1986 · 310 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986310
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  2. 2
    Inventing the Abbotts1987 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987208
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  3. 3
    Family Pictures1990 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990400
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  4. 4
    For Love1993 · 339 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993339
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  5. 5
    The Distinguished Guest1995 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995272
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  6. 6
    While I Was Gone1999 · 291 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999291
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  7. 7
    The World Below2001 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001288
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  8. 8
    The Best American Short Stories 2002Best American Short Stories #12002 · 375 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002375
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  9. 9
    The Story of My Father2003 · 185 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003185
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  10. 10
    Lost in the Forest2005 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005272
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  11. 11
    The Senator's Wife2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008320
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  12. 12
    The Lake Shore Limited2010 · 269 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010269
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  13. 13
    The Arsonist2014 · 303 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014303
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  14. 14
    Monogamy2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020352
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Sue Miller 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.

Best American Short Stories

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

13 books

13 Sue Miller titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Sue Miller Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Sue Miller books run from The Good Mother (1986) to Monogamy (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Sue Miller in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Sue Miller books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 14 Sue Miller books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sue Miller

Start with The Good Mother (1986), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sue Miller book?

Monogamy (2020) is the newest Sue Miller book released so far.

Is there a new Sue Miller book coming?

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

Sue Miller at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Sue Miller title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Sue Miller books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,184 pages across all 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 297 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sue Miller books, 5 of 14, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sue Miller books are about

All 14 Sue Miller books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: marriage is tagged on 4 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.