Order of Jim Harrison Books
Jim Harrison was an American novelist and poet. During his life, he published over three dozen books in multiple genres while also writing literary criticism, screenplays, book reviews, and more. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of novellas, Legends of the Fall which were later made into movies.
In his career, he received many awards and accolades for his work including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mark Twain award, and later was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Harrison grew up in Michigan and later attended Michigan State University where he received a BA and MA in comparative literature. He would marry his with and have two daughters during this time. Harrison passed away in March of 2016 after a hear attack.
Publication Order of Detective Sunderson Books
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Great Leader |
(2011) |
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The Big Seven |
(2015) |
Publication Order of Dalva Books
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Dalva |
(1988) |
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The Road Home |
(1998) |
Publication Order of True North Books
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True North |
(2004) |
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Returning to Earth |
(2007) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Wolf |
(1971) |
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A Good Day to Die |
(1973) |
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Farmer |
(1976) |
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Legends of the Fall |
(1979) |
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Warlock |
(1982) |
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Sundog |
(1984) |
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The Boy Who Ran to the Woods |
(2000) |
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The English Major |
(2008) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies |
(1990) |
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Julip |
(1994) |
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The Beast God Forgot to Invent |
(2000) |
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The Summer He Didn’t Die |
(2005) |
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The Farmer’s Daughter |
(2009) |
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The River Swimmer |
(2013) |
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Brown Dog |
(2013) |
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The Ancient Minstrel |
(2016) |
Publication Order of Poetry Books
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Plain Song |
(1965) |
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Locations |
(1968) |
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Outlyer and Ghazals |
(1971) |
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Letters to Yesenin |
(1973) |
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Natural World |
(1982) |
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Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 |
(1982) |
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The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems |
(1990) |
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After Ikkyu and Other Poems |
(1996) |
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The Shape of the Journey |
(1998) |
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Braided Creek |
(2003) |
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Saving Daylight |
(2006) |
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In Search of Small Gods |
(2009) |
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Songs of Unreason |
(2011) |
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Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems |
(2013) |
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Dead Man’s Float |
(2015) |
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Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems |
(2019) |
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Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Collections
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Just Before Dark |
(1993) |
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The Raw and the Cooked |
(2001) |
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Conversations with Jim Harrison |
(2002) |
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Off to the Side |
(2002) |
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The Etiquette of Freedom |
(2010) |
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A Really Big Lunch |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry |
(2000) |
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Wild Stories |
(2002) |