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Literary Conversations Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Literary Conversations books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Literary Conversations series? Start with "Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges" (1969) and follow publication order through all 95 books.
The complete Literary Conversations reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
Conversations with William Styron
1985
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
Conversations With John Fowles
1999
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
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