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Winston Groom Books in Order

Winston Groom has written 24 books, published between 1978 and 2020. The first book is Better Times Than These (1978) and the newest is The Patriots (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
24
Published
1978–2020
Pages on record
7,684 in 22 of 24 books
Reading time
128–192 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,684 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 24 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Winston Groom, author

Forrest Gump (1986) is the best known novel by Winston Groom (1943–2020), an American author. The book became a 1990s film directed by Robert Zemeckis with Tom Hanks, and Groom followed it with the sequel Gump & Co. in 1995. Groom also wrote 15 nonfiction books, five of them biographies, on topics including the Civil War. El Paso (2016) was his final novel, and The Patriots (2020) is the last of 24 catalogued books.

How many Winston Groom books are there?

Winston Groom has 24 books, released between 1978 and 2020.

Winston Groom Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 24 Winston Groom 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 Better Times Than These by Winston Groom (1978)
  2. Cover of Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom (1983)
  3. Cover of Only by Winston Groom (1984)
  4. Cover of Forrest Gump by Winston Groom, book 1 of the Forrest Gump series (1986)
  5. Cover of Gumpisms by Winston Groom, book 1 of the Forrest Gump Non-Fiction series (1994)
  6. Cover of The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook by Winston Groom, book 2 of the Forrest Gump Non-Fiction series (1994)
  7. Cover of Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groom (1995)
  8. Cover of Gump & Co. by Winston Groom, book 2 of the Forrest Gump series (1995)
  9. Cover of Gone the Sun by Winston Groom (1996)
  10. Cover of Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl by Winston Groom (1997)
  11. Cover of A Storm in Flanders by Winston Groom (2002)
  12. Cover of 1942 by Winston Groom (2005)
  13. Cover of Patriotic Fire by Winston Groom (2006)
  14. Cover of Vicksburg, 1863 by Winston Groom (2009)
  15. Cover of Kearny's March by Winston Groom (2011)
  16. Cover of Shiloh, 1862 by Winston Groom (2012)
  17. Cover of The Aviators by Winston Groom (2013)
  18. Cover of The Generals by Winston Groom (2015)
  19. Cover of El Paso by Winston Groom (2016)
  20. Cover of The Patriots by Winston Groom (2020)
  1. 1
    Better Times Than These1978 · 450 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978450
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  2. 2
    As Summer Dies1980 · confirmed 2/4
    1980–
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  3. 3
    Conversations With the Enemy1983 · 411 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1983411
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  4. 4
    Only1984 · 170 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984170
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  5. 5
    Forrest GumpForrest Gump #11986 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986256
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  6. 6
    GumpismsForrest Gump Non-Fiction #11994 · 88 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199488
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  7. 7
    The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. CookbookForrest Gump Non-Fiction #21994 · 108 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994108
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  8. 8
    Shrouds of Glory1995 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995308
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  9. 9
    Gump & Co.Forrest Gump #21995 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995242
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  10. 10
    Gone the Sun1996 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996250
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  11. 11
    Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl1997 · 306 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997306
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  12. 12
    The Crimson Tide2000 · 357 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000357
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  13. 13
    A Storm in Flanders2002 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002288
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  14. 14
    19422005 · 544 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005544
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  15. 15
    Patriotic Fire2006 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006292
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  16. 16
    Vicksburg, 18632009 · 482 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009482
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  17. 17
    Kearny's March2011 · 340 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011340
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  18. 18
    Shiloh, 18622012 · 462 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012462
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  19. 19
    Ronald Reagan Our 40th President2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  20. 20
    The Aviators2013 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013464
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  21. 21
    The Generals2015 · 510 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015510
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  22. 22
    El Paso2016 · 477 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016477
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  23. 23
    The Allies2018 · 463 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018463
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  24. 24
    The Patriots2020 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020416
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Winston Groom 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.

Forrest Gump in order

2 books
  1. 1. Forrest Gump
  2. 2. Gump & Co.

Forrest Gump Non-Fiction

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

20 books

20 Winston Groom titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Winston Groom books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 24 Winston Groom books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Winston Groom

Start with Better Times Than These (1978), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Winston Groom book?

The Patriots (2020) is the newest Winston Groom book released so far.

Is there a new Winston Groom book coming?

No next Winston Groom 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 Winston Groom has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Winston Groom. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Harper Lee Award2011Won

Winston Groom at a glance

Died
Winston Groom died in 2020, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Winston Groom on record dates from 2020.
Release pace
Winston Groom books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,684 pages across the 22 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 348 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Winston Groom books, 7 of 24, were published in the 2010s.

What the Winston Groom books are about

All 24 Winston Groom books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 6 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.