Order of Anna Quindlen Books

Anna Quindlen is an American author of women’s fiction and family saga novels and non-fiction books. She is also a journalist and opinion columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her New York Times column Public and Private. Quindlen gave up journalism in order to become a full-time novelist in 1995, but then started writing for Newsweek in 1999, which ran until 2009. She is a vocal critic of materialism in American culture. Anna lives in New York City with her husband, Gerald Krovatin – a New Jersey attorney.
Anna Quindlen became a published novelist in 1991 with the novel Object Lessons. Below is a list of Anna Quindlen’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Object Lessons |
(1991) |
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One True Thing |
(1994) |
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Black and Blue |
(1998) |
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Blessings |
(2002) |
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Rise and Shine |
(2006) |
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Every Last One |
(2010) |
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs |
(2014) |
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Miller’s Valley |
(2016) |
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Alternate Side |
(2018) |
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After Annie |
(2024) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Living Out Loud |
(1988) |
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Thinking Out Loud |
(1993) |
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How Reading Changed My Life |
(1998) |
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Siblings |
(1998) |
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A Short Guide to a Happy Life |
(2000) |
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Loud and Clear |
(2004) |
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City |
(2004) |
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Being Perfect |
(2005) |
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Good Dog. Stay. / Life with Beau |
(2007) |
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Naked Babies |
(2009) |
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake |
(2012) |
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Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting |
(2019) |
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Write for Your Life |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
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The Tree That Came to Stay |
(1992) |
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Happily Ever After |
(1997) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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The Secret Society of Demolition Writers |
(2005) |
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40 Model Essays |
(2005) |
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The Maternal Is Political |
(2008) |
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A Path to the World |
(2022) |
Notes: Good Dog. Stay. was also published as Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family. Siblings and Naked Babies are written by Quindlen, with photographs by Nick Kelsh.