Order of Anne Tyler Books
Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short story writer. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has won such awards as the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Many would classify Anne’s work as Southern fiction or modern American fiction, but Anne would rather not be classified as anything. Many of her works have been adapted to film, including The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Saint Maybe, A Slipping-Down Life, Earthly Possessions and Back When We Were Grownups.
Anne Tyler became a published author in 1964 with the novel If Morning Ever Comes. Below is a list of Anne Tyler’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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If Morning Ever Comes |
(1964) |
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The Tin Can Tree |
(1965) |
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A Slipping-Down Life |
(1969) |
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The Clock Winder |
(1972) |
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Celestial Navigation |
(1974) |
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Searching for Caleb |
(1975) |
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Earthly Possessions |
(1977) |
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Morgan’s Passing |
(1980) |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
(1982) |
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The Accidental Tourist |
(1985) |
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Breathing Lessons |
(1988) |
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Saint Maybe |
(1991) |
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Ladder of Years |
(1995) |
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A Patchwork Planet |
(1998) |
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Back When We Were Grownups |
(2001) |
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The Amateur Marriage |
(2004) |
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Digging to America |
(2006) |
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Noah’s Compass |
(2009) |
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The Beginner’s Goodbye |
(2012) |
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A Spool of Blue Thread |
(2015) |
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Clock Dance |
(2018) |
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Redhead by the Side of the Road |
(2020) |
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French Braid |
(2022) |
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Three Days in June |
(2025) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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Half-truths and Semi-miracles |
(2018) |
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Teenage Wasteland |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Picture Books
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Tumble Tower |
(1993) |
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Timothy Tugbottom Says No! |
(2005) |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
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Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 |
(1994) |
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 |
(1996) |
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Listening for God, Vol. 3 |
(2000) |
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Listening For God, Vol. 4 |
(2002) |
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Publication Order of Hogarth Shakespeare Books
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The Gap of Time |
(2015) |
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Shylock is My Name |
(2016) |
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Vinegar Girl |
(2016) |
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Hag-Seed |
(2016) |
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New Boy |
(2017) |
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Dunbar |
(2017) |
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Macbeth |
(2018) |
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Publication Order of Instaread Summary Books
(with Hanya Yanagihara, Sue Monk Kidd, Ian McEwan, Anita Diamant, M.L. Stedman, Nadia Hashimi, Instaread Summaries)
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Summary of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell |
(2016) |
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Summary of A Little Life |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Children Act |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Light Between Oceans |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Boston Girl |
(2016) |
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Summary of The Invention of Wings |
(2016) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Stories of the Modern South |
(1977) |
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The Writer on Her Work |
(1980) |
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A World of Fiction |
(1983) |
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The Best American Short Stories 1983 |
(1983) |
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New Woman, New Fiction |
(1990) |
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Listening for God, Vol. 2 |
(1996) |