Order of Lee Smith Books
Lee Smith is an American author of Southern gothic fiction. Lee was writing stories while living in the Appalachian Mountains in Southwestern Virginia and selling them for a nickel each. Lee has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and the North Carolina Award for Literature.
Lee Smith became a published author in 1980 with the novel Black Mountain Breakdown. Below is a list of Lee Smith’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed | (1969) |    |
| Fancy Strut | (1973) | |
| Black Mountain Breakdown | (1980) | |
| Oral History | (1983) | |
| Family Linen | (1985) | |
| Fair and Tender Ladies | (1988) | |
| The Devil's Dream | (1992) | |
| Saving Grace | (1995) | |
| The Last Girls | (2002) | |
| On Agate Hill | (2006) | |
| Guests on Earth | (2013) | |
| Silver Alert | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Christmas Letters | (1996) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Cakewalk | (1981) | |
| Me and My Baby View the Eclipse | (1990) | |
| News of the Spirit | (1997) | |
| Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger | (2010) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Conversations with Lee Smith | (2012) | |
| Dimestore: A Writer's Life | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Conjunctions Books
(with Bradford Morrow)
| Conjunctions #1 | (1981) | |
| Conjunctions #2 | (1982) | |
| Conjunctions #3 | (1982) | |
| Conjunctions #4 | (1983) | |
| Conjunctions #5 | (1983) | |
| Conjunctions #6 | (1984) | |
| Conjunctions #7 | (1985) | |
| Conjunctions #8 | (1985) | |
| Conjunctions #9 | (1986) | |
| Conjunctions #10 | (1987) | |
| Conjunctions #11 | (1988) | |
| Conjunctions #12 | (1988) | |
| Conjunctions #13 | (1989) | |
| Conjunctions #14 | (1989) | |
| Conjunctions #14 | (1989) | |
| Conjunctions #15 | (1990) | |
| Conjunctions #16 | (1991) | |
| Conjunctions #17 | (1991) | |
| Conjunctions #18 | (1992) | |
| Conjunctions #19 | (1992) | |
| Conjunctions #20 | (1993) | |
| Conjunctions #21 | (1993) | |
| Conjunctions #22 | (1994) | |
| Conjunctions #23 | (1994) | |
| Conjunctions #24 | (1995) | |
| Conjunctions #25: The New American Theater | (1995) | |
| Conjunctions #26 | (1996) | |
| Conjunctions #27 | (1996) | |
| Conjunctions #28 | (1997) | |
| Conjunctions #29: Tributes | (1997) | |
| Conjunctions #30 | (1998) | |
| Conjunctions #31: Radical Shadows | (1998) | |
| Conjunctions #32 | (1999) | |
| Conjunctions #33 | (1999) | |
| Conjunctions #34: American Fiction | (2000) | |
| Conjunctions #35: American Poetry | (2000) | |
| Conjunctions #36: Dark Laughter | (2001) | |
| Conjunctions #37: Twentieth Anniversary Issue | (2001) | |
| Conjunctions #38: Rejoicing Revoicing | (2002) | |
| Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists | (2002) | |
| Conjunctions #40 | (2003) | |
| Conjunctions #41: Two Kingdoms | (2003) | |
| Conjunctions #42: Cinema Lingua | (2004) | |
| Conjunctions #43: Beyond Arcadia | (2004) | |
| Conjunctions #44: An Anatomy of Roads | (2005) | |
| Conjunctions #45: Secret Lives of Children | (2005) | |
| Conjunctions #46: Selected Subversions | (2006) | |
| Conjunctions #47 | (2006) | |
| Conjunctions #48: Faces of Desire | (2007) | |
| Conjunctions #49: A Writers' Aviary | (2007) | |
| Conjunctions #50 | (2008) | |
| Conjunctions #51: The Death Issue | (2008) | |
| Conjunctions #52: Betwixt the Between | (2009) | |
| Conjunctions #53: Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories | (2009) | |
| Conjunctions #54: Shadow Selves | (2010) | |
| Conjunctions #55: Urban Arias | (2010) | |
| Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita | (2011) | |
| Conjunctions #57: Kin | (2011) | |
| Conjunctions #58: Riveted | (2012) | |
| Conjunctions #59: Colloquy | (2012) | |
| Conjunctions #60: In Absentia | (2013) | |
| Conjunctions #61: A Menagerie | (2014) | |
| Conjunctions #62: Exile | (2014) | |
| Conjunctions #63: Speaking Volumes | (2015) | |
| Conjunctions #64: Natural Causes | (2015) | |
| Conjunctions #65: Sleights of Hand | (2016) | |
| Conjunctions #67: Other Aliens | (2016) | |
| Conjunctions #68: Inside Out | (2017) | |
| Conjunctions #70: Sanctuary | (2018) | |
| Conjunctions #71: A Cabinet of Curiosity | (2019) | |
| Conjunctions #72: Nocturnals | (2019) | |
| Conjunctions #73: Earth Elegies | (2019) | |
| Conjunctions #74: Grendel’s Kin - The Monsters Issue | (2020) | |
Publication Order of New Stories From The South Books
| New Stories from the South | (1988) | |
| New Stories from the South 1992 | (1992) | |
| New Stories from the South 1993 | (1993) | |
| New Stories from the South 1994 | (1994) | |
| New Stories from the South 1995 | (1995) | |
| New Stories from the South 1996 | (1996) | |
| New Stories from the South | (1997) | |
| New Stories from the South 1998 | (1998) | |
| New Stories from the South 1999 | (1999) | |
| New Stories from the South 2000 | (2000) | |
| New Stories from the South 2001 | (2001) | |
| New Stories from the South 2002 | (2002) | |
| New Stories from the South 2003 | (2003) | |
| New Stories from the South 2004 | (2004) | |
| New Stories from the South, 2005 | (2005) | |
| Best of the South | (2005) | |
| New Stories from the South | (2007) | |
| New Stories from the South 2008 | (2008) | |
| New Stories from the South 2009 | (2009) | |
| New Stories from the South 2010 | (2010) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Growing Up in the South | (1991) | |
| Out of the Mold | (1997) | |
| Conjunctions #29: Tributes | (1997) | |
| Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty | (1999) | |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | (1999) | |
| A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers | (2003) | |
| The Casual Reader | (2014) | |
Note: The anthology Tributes was edited with Martine Bellen and Bradford Morrow.
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