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 |
| The Mighty Red | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Years of My Birth | (2011) | 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 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 |
| 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 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 | ||
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Publication Order of Selected Shorts Books
| For Better and for Worse | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Even More Laughs | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Timeless Classics | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Falling in Love | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Food Fictions | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Travel Tales | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Edith Wharton | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pets! | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tales of Betrayal | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Family Matters | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Are We There Yet? | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Touch of Magic | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The William Hurt Collection | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Whodunit? | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| American Classics | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New American Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Poe! | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Literary Conversations Books
| Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Graham Greene | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Walker Percy | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William Styron | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Malcolm Cowley | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Lillian Hellman | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tennessee Williams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Hemingway | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Truman Capote: Conversations | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Flannery O'Connor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Peter Taylor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Arthur Miller | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Edward Albee | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erskine Caldwell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Norman Mailer | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Graves | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Shelby Foote | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robertson Davies | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with James Baldwin | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with John Gardner | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wilbur | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tom Wolfe | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Raymond Carver | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eugene O'Neill | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Reynolds Price | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Bernard Malamud | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Nikki Giovanni | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Thornton Wilder | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Coles | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Walker Percy | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wright | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Paul Bowles | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Amiri Baraka | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Saul Bellow | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Henry Miller | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Gaines | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ralph Ellison | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chester Himes | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Susan Sontag | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ishmael Reed | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Derek Walcott | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Pauline Kael | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with V. S. Naipaul | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with N. Scott Momaday | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chinua Achebe | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Denise Levertov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With William Faulkner | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with E. L. Doctorow | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John Fowles | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Salman Rushdie | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William S. Burroughs | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chaim Potok | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Ford | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Christopher Isherwood | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Mary Gordon | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jim Harrison | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Clarence Major | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Margaret Walker | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erica Jong | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Elie Wiesel: Conversations | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Joseph Brodsky: Conversations | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Rita Dove | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gloria Naylor | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Audre Lorde | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John le Carré | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Isaac Asimov | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Don DeLillo | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gore Vidal | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Penn Warren | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jack Kerouac | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Thomas McGuane | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Larry Brown | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Sonia Sanchez | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Wendell Berry | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leon Forrest | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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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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