Wallace Stegner books in order
American historian, writer, and environmentalist
- Lived
- 1909–1993
- Country
- United States
- Books
- 36
Wallace Stegner published 19 novels, 5 short story collections, 10 non-fiction books and 2 other books, beginning with Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1953). The best-known is Angle of Repose (1971).
Updated September 2026
Where to start with Wallace Stegner
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Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner's most-read book.
Standalone novels in order
Remembering Laughter (1937)
On a Darkling Plain (1940)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943)
One Nation (1945)
Preacher and the Slave (1950)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1953)
The City of the Living (1956)
A Shooting Star (1961)
Wolf Willow (1962)
The American Novel: From James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner (1965)
All the Little Live Things (1967)
Joe Hill (1969)
The Sound of Mountain Water (1969)
Angle of Repose (1971)
The Spectator Bird (1976)
Recapitulation (1979)
Crossing to Safety (1987)
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (1992)
The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner (2007)
Short story collections in order
The Women on the Wall (1950)
The Writer's Art (1950)
Twenty Years of Stanford Short Stories (1966)
Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (1990)
Collected Stories (2006)
Non-fiction in order
Mormon Country (1942)
The Gathering of Zion (1964)
Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil (1971)
The Writer in America (1976)
American Places (1985)
The American West as Living Space (1987)
On the Teaching of Creative Writing (1988)
The Uneasy Chair (1988)
Marking the Sparrow's Fall (1998)
On Teaching and Writing Fiction (2002)
Other books in order
This Is Dinosaur (1955)
Big Rock Candy Mtn (1977)
About Wallace Stegner
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wallace Stegner FAQ
- How many books has Wallace Stegner written?
- Wallace Stegner published 19 novels, 5 short story collections, 10 non-fiction books and 2 other books that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read Wallace Stegner's books in?
- Publication order is a safe choice; the full list is above. Most readers start with Angle of Repose.
- What is Wallace Stegner's last book?
- Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (1992).
- What is Wallace Stegner's most famous book?
- Angle of Repose (1971) is Wallace Stegner's most widely read book.
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Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers. Last updated September 2026.