Order of Patti Smith Books
Patti Smith is a musician, writer, and performance artist. Patti rose to prominence in the 1970s for her influential work in the punk rock movement. She was known for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock music, and has been called “the punk poet laureate”.
Smith was born in 1946 in Chicago. By 1967, she was a mother and decided to move to Manhattan in New York City. There she met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe who had a major impact on her life. SHe would go on to Paris where she would do performance art before returning to New York. She eventually found her way to music and began performing in 1974.
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Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| Seventh Heaven | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Witt | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ha! Ha! Houdini | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Babel | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Woolgathering | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Coral Sea | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Auguries of Innocence | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Early Work, 1970-1979 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Patti Smith Complete Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Strange Messenger | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trois | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Just Kids | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| M Train | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| David Lynch: Someone is in My House | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year of the Monkey | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Book of Days | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bread of Angels: A Memoir | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Why I Write Books
| Devotion | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Inadvertent | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| For Now | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The House of Being | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| What Nails It | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
If You Like Patti Smith Books, You’ll Love…
Year of the Monkey is the story of one transformative year in the life of Patti Smith. She ends up on the coast of Santa Cruz when she decides to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Her travels take her from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm; to the hospital room where a friend and mentor is. The story also takes the reader to places both remembered and imagined, as Patti mixes fact and fiction with her trademark poetic mastery. Patti lets the reader into her world and shares her wisdom, wit, and hope for a better world.
M Train is another popular memoir from Smith. The prose shifts from dreams to reality, and past and present. This book also takes us into Patti’s own reflections of the writer’s craft and her thoughts on artistic creation. M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee; told in a way that only Patti Smith could tell. Patti herself calls this book a “roadmap to my life” and it fits as the book is both powerful and moving.