Order of Louisa May Alcott Books

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American author of children’s fiction, young adult fiction, thrillers and poetry. Her writing career took off while she was working as a nurse during the Civil War and writing about her experiences (for what became Hospital Sketches). Alcott is best known for her children’s novel Little Women – a Civil War-era coming of age story that spawned multiple sequels. The novel Little Women gave her the financial independence she desired and the ability to continue writing until her death.

Louisa May Alcott’s first book was the short story collection Flower Fables. Her work has been published as recently as 1997. Below is a list of Louisa May Alcott’s books in order of when they were first published:

Publication Order of Little Women Books

Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy	(1868)
Good Wives	(1869)
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys	(1871)
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out	(1886)

Publication Order of Little Women Collections

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag	(1872)
Comic Tragedies: Written by Jo and Meg and Acted by the Little Women	(1893)

Publication Order of Eight Cousins Books

Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill	(1875)
Rose in Bloom	(1876)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Moods	(1864)
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened	(1867)
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation	(1867)
An Old-Fashioned Girl	(1870)
Work: A Story of Experience	(1873)
Silver Pitchers, and Independence: A Centennial Love Story	(1876)
A Modern Mephistopheles	(1877)
Under the Lilacs	(1878)
Jack and Jill: A Village Story	(1880)
Lulu's Library	(1886)
A Garland for Girls	(1888)
A Long Fatal Love Chase	(1995)
The Inheritance	(1997)

Publication Order of Short Stories

The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale	(1864)
Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power	(1866)
A Strange Island	(1868)
Perilous Play	(1869)
Transcendental Wild Oats	(1873)
The Candy Country	(1885)
Doctor Dorn's Revenge	(2010)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Flower Fables	(1849)
On Picket Duty and Other Tales	(1864)
Morning-Glories and Other Stories	(1867)
Three Proverb Stories	(1868)
A Whisper in the Dark	(1889)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Hospital Sketches	(1863)
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals	(1889)

Notes: Good Wives was also published as Part Second of Little Women. The Inheritance was finished in 1849, but not published until 1997. A Long Fatal Love Chase was completed in 1866, but went unpublished until 1995. A Long Fatal Love Chase, The Abbot’s Ghost and Behind a Mask were written as A.M. Barnard. A Modern Mephistopheles was published anonymously.

If You Like Louisa May Alcott Books, You’ll Love…

• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• L.M. Montgomery
• Jane Austen

Louisa May Alcott Synopsis: Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott is a young orphan girl who moves into her well-off aunts’ house and has to adapt to living with her seven boy cousins.

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