Wallace Stegner Books in Order
41 books are credited to Wallace Stegner, published between 1937 and 2008; 6 of them appeared after Wallace Stegner's death in 1993. The first book is Remembering Laughter (1937) and the newest is The Twilight of Self Reliance (2008). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 41
- Published
- 1937–2008
- Pages on record
- 10,255 in 32 of 41 books
- Reading time
- 171–256 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 10,255 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 41 titles with a page count on record.
Wallace Stegner (Wallace Earle Stegner, February 18, 1909 to April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, historian and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner received the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. The catalogue records 41 books from Remembering Laughter (1937) to The Twilight of Self Reliance (2008). Mormon Country (1942), The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954) are listed titles. Subjects include the American West, Mormons, history and biography.
How many Wallace Stegner books are there?
Wallace Stegner has 41 books, released between 1937 and 2008. 6 of them were published after Wallace Stegner's death in 1993. 2 of them belong to the Brude Mason series.
Wallace Stegner Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 41 Wallace Stegner 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.
- 1Remembering Laughter1937 · 152 pages · confirmed 2/419371522/4
- 2The Potter's House1938 · confirmed 2/41938–2/4
- 3On a Darkling Plain1940 · confirmed 2/41940–2/4
- 4Fire and Ice1941 · confirmed 2/41941–2/4
- 519423622/4
- 619436392/4
- 7Second Growth1947 · confirmed 2/41947–2/4
- 8The Women on the Wall1950 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/419502772/4
- 9Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel1950 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/419503842/4
- 10Beyond the Hundredth Meridian1954 · 438 pages · confirmed 2/419544382/4
- 11This Is Dinosaur1955 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/419551282/4
- 12The City of the Living & Other Stories1956 · confirmed 2/41956–2/4
- 13A Shooting Star1961 · 433 pages · confirmed 2/419614332/4
- 14Wolf Willow1962 · 306 pages · confirmed 2/419623062/4
- 15The Gathering of Zion1964 · 331 pages · confirmed 2/419643312/4
- 16Teaching the Short Story1966 · confirmed 2/41966–2/4
- 17All the Little Live Things1967 · 345 pages · confirmed 2/419673452/4
- 18The Sound of Mountain Water1969 · confirmed 2/41969–2/4
- 19Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil1971 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/419713202/4
- 20Angle of Repose1971 · 672 pages · confirmed 2/419716722/4
- 21The Writer's Art1972 · 358 pages · confirmed 2/419723582/4
- 22The Uneasy Chair1974 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/419744642/4
- 23The letters of Bernard DeVoto1975 · 393 pages · confirmed 2/419753932/4
- 24The Spectator Bird1976 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/419762242/4
- 25The Writer in America1976 · confirmed 2/41976–2/4
- 2619792882/4
- 27One Way To Spell Man1982 · 177 pages · confirmed 2/419821772/4
- 28Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History & Literature1983 · 207 pages · confirmed 2/419832072/4
- 29American Places1985 · 252 pages · confirmed 2/419852522/4
- 30Crossing to Safety1987 · confirmed 2/41987–2/4
- 31The American West as Living Space1987 · 89 pages · confirmed 2/41987892/4
- 32On the Teaching of Creative Writing1988 · 72 pages · confirmed 2/41988722/4
- 33The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner1990 · 525 pages · confirmed 2/419905252/4
- 34Wilderness at the Edge1991 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/419914002/4
- 35Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs1992 · 234 pages · confirmed 2/419922342/4
- 36Marking the Sparrow's Fall1998 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/419983842/4
- 37On Teaching and Writing Fiction2002 · 121 pages · confirmed 2/420021212/4
- 38The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner2007 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/420074802/4
- 39The Selected Letters2007 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/420074802/4
- 40Wallace Stegner's West2008 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/420082922/4
- 41The Twilight of Self Reliance2008 · 28 pages · confirmed 2/42008282/4
Wallace Stegner 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.
Brude Mason in order
2 booksAmerican Folkways in order
1 bookStandalone books
38 books38 Wallace Stegner titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Wallace Stegner books in order?
You only need to read Wallace Stegner books in order within the Brude Mason series, which holds 2 of the 41 Wallace Stegner books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Wallace Stegner
Start with Remembering Laughter (1937), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Wallace Stegner book?
The Twilight of Self Reliance (2008) is the newest Wallace Stegner book released so far.
Is there a new Wallace Stegner book coming?
No next Wallace Stegner 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 Wallace Stegner has won
Wikidata records 4 awards for Wallace Stegner. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Award1977Wonfor The Spectator Bird
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1972Wonfor Angle of Repose
- O. Henry Award1950Won
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1946Won
Wallace Stegner at a glance
- Died
- Wallace Stegner died in 1993, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Wallace Stegner are still being published after Wallace Stegner's death in 1993; the newest appeared in 2008.
- Release pace
- Wallace Stegner books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 10,255 pages across the 32 of 41 books with a recorded length, a median of 326 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Wallace Stegner books, 8 of 41, were published in the 1970s.
What the Wallace Stegner books are about
34 of the 41 Wallace Stegner 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 6 of 34. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.