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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is an American novelist and short story writer who has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She has received several awards, including 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. While many categorize her work as Southern fiction or modern American fiction, Anne prefers not to be labeled. Several of her works have been adapted into films, such as The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Saint Maybe, A Slipping-Down Life, Earthly Possessions, and Back When We Were Grownups. Anne Tyler published her first novel, If Morning Ever Comes, in 1964. Below is a list of her books in the order of their original publication.

Anne Tyler became a published novelist 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 released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
If Morning Ever Comes (1964) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tin Can Tree (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Slipping-Down Life (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Clock Winder (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Celestial Navigation (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Searching for Caleb (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Earthly Possessions (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Morgan's Passing (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Accidental Tourist (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Breathing Lessons (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Saint Maybe (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ladder of Years (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Patchwork Planet (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Back When We Were Grownups (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Amateur Marriage (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Digging to America (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Noah's Compass (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beginner's Goodbye (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Spool of Blue Thread (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Clock Dance (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
French Braid (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Three Days in June (2025) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Half-truths and Semi-miracles (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Teenage Wasteland (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Tumble Tower (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Timothy Tugbottom Says No! (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor,Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Listening for God, Vol. 2 (With: John Updike,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Listening for God, Vol. 3 (By: Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Hogarth Shakespeare Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Gap of Time (By: Jeanette Winterson) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shylock is My Name (By: Howard Jacobson) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Vinegar Girl (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hag-Seed (By: Margaret Atwood) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
New Boy (By: Tracy Chevalier) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dunbar (By: Edward St. Aubyn) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Macbeth (By: Jo Nesbø) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Instaread Summary Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Summary of The Boston Girl (By: Anita Diamant,Instaread Summaries) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Stories of the Modern South (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Writer on Her Work (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A World of Fiction (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Short Stories 1983 (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
New Woman, New Fiction (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Listening for God, Vol. 2 (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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