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Larry McMurtry Books in Order

12 series including Penguin Lives, Houston and more

★ 14 NYT bestsellers 12 series 88 books Latest: Thalia (2017)

Since 1960, Larry McMurtry has published 88 books. Across 12 series, Penguin Lives stands out as the longest at 32 books. Their latest title in our catalogue is Thalia, from 2017.

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1 Thalia, Texas 2 Last Picture Show 3 Houston 4 Desert Rose 5 Lonesome Dove 6 Chronological Lonesome Dove 7 Berrybender Narratives 8 Larry McMurtry Other Novels 9 Larry McMurtry Short Story Collections 10 Larry McMurtry Non-Fiction Books 11 Penguin Lives 12 Larry McMurtry Anthologies

New York Times Bestsellers

14 books

Larry McMurtry has placed 14 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 113 weeks on the charts.

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Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove Series

24 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #4 · debuted Jun 1985

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Anything for Billy
Larry McMurtry Other Novels

18 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #3 · debuted Oct 1988

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Reading Order

12 series · 88 books

Thalia, Texas Series

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1 Horseman, Pass By / Hud 1961 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Leaving Cheyenne 1962 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Thalia 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Desert Rose Series

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1 The Desert Rose 1983 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Late Child 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Lonesome Dove Series

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1 Lonesome Dove 1985 🏆 Pulitzer Prize 1986🏆 Spur Award 1985National Book Critics Circle Award 1985Full award history → 🎬 2 adaptations → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Streets of Laredo 1993 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Dead Man's Walk 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Comanche Moon 1997 🏆 Spur Award 1998Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Berrybender Narratives Series

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1 Sin Killer 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Wandering Hill 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 By Sorrow's River 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Folly and Glory 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Larry McMurtry Other Novels

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1 Cadillac Jack 1982 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Anything for Billy 1988 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Buffalo Girls 1990 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Pretty Boy Floyd ( With: Diana Ossana) 1994 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Zeke and Ned ( With: Diana Ossana) 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Boone's Lick 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Loop Group 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Telegraph Days 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Last Kind Words Saloon 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Larry McMurtry Short Story Collections

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1 Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay ( With: Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Larry McMurtry Non-Fiction Books

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1 In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas 1968 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood 1987 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Crazy Horse (Short Story) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Paradise 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Colonel and Little Missie 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Books: A Memoir 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 Literary Life: A Second Memoir 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Hollywood: A Third Memoir 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Custer 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 Missouri River 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Penguin Lives Series

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1 Abraham Lincoln ( By: Thomas Keneally) 1960 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Mao Zedong: A Life ( By: Jonathan D. Spence) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Mozart: A Life (Short Story) ( By: Peter Gay) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Marcel Proust ( By: Edmund White) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Crazy Horse (Short Story) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Saint Augustine ( By: Garry Wills) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 James Joyce ( By: Edna O'Brien) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Rosa Parks ( By: Douglas Brinkley) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Virginia Woolf ( By: Nigel Nicolson) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Woodrow Wilson (Short Story) ( By: Louis Auchincloss) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 Herman Melville ( By: Elizabeth Hardwick) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life ( By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Dante ( By: R.W.B. Lewis) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 Jane Austen: A Life ( By: Carol Shields) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 Buddha ( By: Karen Armstrong) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Simone Weil ( By: Francine du Plessix Gray) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 Andy Warhol: A Biography ( By: Wayne Koestenbaum) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life ( By: Marshall Frady) 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 Joseph Smith ( By: Robert V. Remini) 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20 Winston Churchill: A Life ( By: John Keegan) 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21 Pope John XXIII ( By: Thomas Cahill) 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22 Charles Dickens ( By: Jane Smiley) 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23 Elvis Presley ( By: Bobbie Ann Mason) 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24 Saint Therese of Lisieux ( By: Kathryn Harrison) 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25 Robert E. Lee ( By: Roy Blount Jr.) 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life ( By: Ada Louise Huxtable) 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27 George Herbert Walker Bush ( By: Tom Wicker) 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28 Napoleon ( By: Paul Johnson) 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29 Julia Child ( By: Laura Shapiro) 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30 Joan of Arc ( By: Mary Gordon) 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31 Martin Luther ( By: Martin E. Marty) 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32 Branch Rickey: A Life ( By: Jimmy Breslin) 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Larry McMurtry Anthologies

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1 Southwest Stories 1993 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Still Wild 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Lone Star Literature 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
About the Author

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. During a career spanning six decades, he wrote more than thirty novels, numerous essays and memoirs, and approximately fifty screenplays.

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