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Larry McMurtry Books in Order

12 series including Penguin Lives Series, Houston Series 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
Horseman, Pass By / Hud by Larry McMurtry

Thalia, Texas Series

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1 Horseman, Pass By / Hud 1961 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2 Leaving Cheyenne 1962 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3 Thalia 2017 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
The Desert Rose by Larry McMurtry

Desert Rose Series

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1 The Desert Rose 1983 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2 The Late Child 1995 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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 on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
2 Streets of Laredo 1993 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
3 Dead Man's Walk 1995 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
4 Comanche Moon 1997 🏆 Spur Award 1998Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry

Berrybender Narratives Series

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

Larry McMurtry Other Novels

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

Larry McMurtry Short Story Collections

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1 Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay with Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana 2005 Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry Non-Fiction Books

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

Penguin Lives Series

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

Larry McMurtry Anthologies

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