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Willa Cather Books in Order

59 books are credited to Willa Cather, published between 1896 and 2022; 22 of them appeared after Willa Cather's death in 1947. The first book is A Night at Greenway Court and Other Stories (1896) and the newest is Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
59
Published
1896–2022
Pages on record
7,521 in 36 of 59 books
Reading time
125–188 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,521 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 36 of 59 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Willa Cather, author of the Great Plains Trilogy

Willa Cather wrote about the Nebraska plains, frontier and farm life, and the immigrants who settled them. Her earliest catalogued titles are short stories from 1896, and the Great Plains Trilogy is the sequence her fiction is grouped around. Sixty-nine catalogued titles, poetry and collected editions included, run through reissues dated to 2022.

How many Willa Cather books are there?

Willa Cather has 59 books, released between 1896 and 2022. 22 of them were published after Willa Cather's death in 1947. 3 of them belong to the Great Plains Trilogy series.

Willa Cather Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 59 Willa Cather 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 A Death in the Desert by Willa Cather (1903)
  2. Cover of A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather (1904)
  3. Cover of The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather (1905)
  4. Cover of The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather (1909)
  5. Cover of Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather (1912)
  6. Cover of The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather (1912)
  7. Cover of O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, book 1 of the Great Plains Trilogy (1913)
  8. Cover of The Autobiography of S. S. McClure by Willa Cather (1914)
  9. Cover of The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, book 2 of the Great Plains Trilogy (1915)
  10. Cover of The Diamond Mine by Willa Cather (1916)
  11. Cover of A Gold Slipper by Willa Cather (1917)
  12. Cover of My Ántonia by Willa Cather, book 3 of the Great Plains Trilogy (1918)
  13. Cover of Scandal by Willa Cather (1919)
  14. Cover of Youth and The Bright Medusa by Willa Cather (1920)
  15. Cover of Paul's Case by Willa Cather (1920)
  16. Cover of One of Ours by Willa Cather (1922)
  17. Cover of A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (1923)
  18. Cover of The Professor's House by Willa Cather (1925)
  19. Cover of My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather (1926)
  20. Cover of Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
  21. Cover of Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather (1931)
  22. Cover of Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather (1935)
  23. Cover of Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather (1940)
  24. Cover of Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 by Willa Cather (1965)
  1. 2
    The Burglar's Christmas1896 · confirmed 1/4
    1896–
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  2. 4
    On the Divide, and Eric Hermannson's Soul1900 · confirmed 1/4
    1900–
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  3. 5
    Jack-A-Boy, and El Dorado1901 · confirmed 1/4
    1901–
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  4. 6
    A Death in the Desert1903 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    190348
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  5. 7
    April Twilights and Other Poems1903 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1903232
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  6. 8
    A Wagner Matinee1904 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    190448
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  7. 9
    The Sculptor's Funeral1905 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    190548
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  8. 10
    The Troll Garden1905 · confirmed 1/4
    1905–
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  9. 11
    The Namesake, and the Profile1907 · confirmed 1/4
    1907–
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  10. 12
    A Collection of Stories, Reviews, and Essays1908 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1908240
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  11. 13
    The Enchanted Bluff1909 · confirmed 1/4
    1909–
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  12. 14
    Alexander's Bridge1912 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1912116
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  13. 15
    The Bohemian Girl1912 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1912208
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  14. 16
    O Pioneers!Great Plains Trilogy #11913 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1913159
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  15. 17
    The Autobiography of S. S. McClure1914 · 266 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1914266
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  16. 18
    The Song of the LarkGreat Plains Trilogy #21915 · 429 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1915429
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  17. 19
    The Diamond Mine1916 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191648
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  18. 20
    A Gold Slipper1917 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191748
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  19. 21
    My ÁntoniaGreat Plains Trilogy #31918 · 175 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1918175
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  20. 22
    A Gold Slipper, and Ardessa1918 · confirmed 1/4
    1918–
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  21. 23
    The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science1919 · confirmed 1/4
    1919–
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  22. 24
    Scandal1919 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    191948
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  23. 25
    Youth and The Bright Medusa1920 · 279 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1920279
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  24. 26
    Coming, Aphrodite! / Coming, Eden Bower!1920 · confirmed 1/4
    1920–
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  25. 27
    Paul's Case1920 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192048
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  26. 28
    One of Ours1922 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1922200
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  27. 29
    A Lost Lady1923 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1923150
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  28. 30
    The Professor's House1925 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1925258
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Willa Cather 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.

Great Plains Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. O Pioneers!
  2. 2. The Song of the Lark
  3. 3. My Ántonia

Standalone books

56 books

56 Willa Cather titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Willa Cather Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Willa Cather books run from A Night at Greenway Court and Other Stories (1896) to Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Willa Cather in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Willa Cather books in order?

You only need to read Willa Cather books in order within the Great Plains Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 59 Willa Cather books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Willa Cather

Start with A Night at Greenway Court and Other Stories (1896), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Willa Cather book?

Under Far Horizons - Selected Poetry of Willa Cather (2022) is the newest Willa Cather book released so far.

Is there a new Willa Cather book coming?

No next Willa Cather 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 Willa Cather has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Willa Cather. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters1930Won
  • Pulitzer Prize for the Novel1923Wonfor One of Ours

Willa Cather at a glance

Died
Willa Cather died in 1947, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Willa Cather are still being published after Willa Cather's death in 1947; the newest appeared in 2022.
Release pace
Willa Cather books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,521 pages across the 36 of 59 books with a recorded length, a median of 179 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Willa Cather books, 11 of 59, were published in the 1910s.

What the Willa Cather books are about

36 of the 59 Willa Cather books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 8 of 36. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.