Order of Louise Erdrich Books
Louise Erdrich is an American author of Native American fiction, including novels, children’s books and poetry. She writes the Birchbark House children’s series. When she was young, Louise’s father encouraged her writing by giving her a nickel every time she wrote a story. She earned her BA in English from Dartmouth College, where she met her future husband (and sometimes collaborator), Michael Dorris. Louise then got her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. Louise owns an independent bookstore called Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.
Louise Erdrich started her career as a published author in 1984 with the novel Love Medicine. Below is a list of Louise Erdrich’s books in order of when they were first published:
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Publication Order of Birchbark House Books
| The Birchbark House | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Game of Silence | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Porcupine Year | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chickadee | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Makoons | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Love Medicine Books
| Love Medicine | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Beet Queen | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tracks | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bingo Palace | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of Burning Love | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Four Souls | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Painted Drum | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Crown of Columbus | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Master Butchers Singing Club | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Plague of Doves | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadow Tag | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Round House | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| LaRose | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Future Home of the Living God | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night Watchman | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sentence | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Grandmother's Pigeon | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Range Eternal | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Imagination | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Route Two | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Jacklight | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Baptism of Desire | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Original Fire | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Red Convertible | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
| Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening For God, Vol. 4 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Points of View | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| New Woman, New Fiction | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Growing Up Native American | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 1993 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Touchwood of Ojibway Prose | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mistresses of the Dark | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers on Writing | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Stories We Tell | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Every Day Is a Good Day | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Secret Ingredients | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Granta Book of the American Short Story | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Not Normal, Illinois | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Granta 115: The F Word | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freeman's: Arrival | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bodies Built for Game | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fight of the Century | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Writer's Library | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freeman's. Amore | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: The Crown of Columbus and Route Two co-authored with Michael Dorris. The Best American Short Stories 1993 was co-edited by Katrina Kenison. The Antelope Wife was re-published as The Antelope Woman.
If You Like Louise Erdrich Books, You’ll Love…
Louise Erdrich Synopses: The Best American Short Stories 1993 is edited by Louise Erdrich and series editor Katrina Kenison. It includes short stories from authors such as John Updike, Alice Munro, Wendell Berry, Diane Johnson, Lorrie Moore, Stephen Dixon, and Mary Gaitskill.
Grandmother’s Pigeon is a picture book by Louise Erdrich, illustrated by Lim LaMarche. A grandmother sails away, leaving behind her birds’ nests. One of the nests has three eggs that hatch passenger pigeons.
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