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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction 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 Non-Fiction series? Start with "A Story Teller's Story" (1924) and follow publication order through all 23 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

A Story Teller's Story
1924

Sherwood Anderson's Notebook
1926

1926

Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields (With: Theodore Dreiser,John Dos Passos)
1932

Dreiser
1936

San Francisco at Christmas
1941

Letters of Sherwood Anderson
1953

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (With: Christopher Sergel)
1960

Return to Winesburg
1967

Memoirs
1969

Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs
1969

Puzzled America
1970

The Buck Fever Papers
1971

Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein
1972

Paul Rosenfeld, Voyager in the Arts
1978

Sherwood Anderson: The Writer at His Craft
1979

Selected Letters
1983

Kit Brandon
1985

Letters to Bab
1985

The Sherwood Anderson Diaries, 1936-1941
1987

Sherwood Anderson's Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson
1989

Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters
1991

Southern Odyssey
1997
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