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Larry McMurtry Books in Order
Larry McMurtry is a prolific American author and screenwriter, born in Wichita Falls, Texas on June 3, 1936. His extensive body of work includes twenty-nine novels, such as the critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <i>Lonesome Dove</i>, three memoirs, two essay collections, and over thirty screenplays. A versatile writer, McMurtry's first published book, <i>Horseman, Pass By</i>, was adapted into the film "Hud," while several of his novels have been adapted into movies and a television mini-series. This literary icon has garnered numerous accolades, including a share of the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain."
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Larry McMurtry's book series? Larry McMurtry has written 10 book series. The most notable is the Berrybender Narratives series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Larry McMurtry
- #1
Sin Killer(2002) - #2The Wandering Hill(2003)
- #3By Sorrow's River(2003)
- #4Folly and Glory(2004)
- #1The Desert Rose(1983)
- #2
The Late Child(1995)
- #1Moving On(1970)
- #2
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers(1972) - #3Somebody's Darling(1978)
- #4
Some Can Whistle(1989) - #5
The Evening Star(1992)
- #1
The Last Picture Show(1966) - #2
Texasville(1987) - #3Duane's Depressed(1999)
- #4
When the Light Goes(2007) - #5Rhino Ranch(2009)
- #1Lonesome Dove(1985)
- #2
Streets of Laredo(1993) - #3
Dead Man's Walk(1995) - #4
Comanche Moon(1997)
- #1In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas(1968)
- #2
Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood(1987) - #3Crazy Horse(1999)
- #4
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen(1999) - #5
Roads: A Millennial Journey Along America's Great Interstate Highways(2000) - #6Paradise(2001)
- #7Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West(2001)
- #8
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846-1890(2005) - #9
The Colonel and Little Missie(2006) - #10Books: A Memoir(2008)
- #11
Literary Life: A Second Memoir(2009) - #12
Hollywood: A Third Memoir(2010) - #13
Custer(2012) - #14
Missouri River(2015)
- #1
Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)(1960) - #2
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)(1999) - #3
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)(1999) - #4
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White)(1999) - #5Crazy Horse(1999)
- #6
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)(1999) - #7
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien)(1999) - #8
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)(2000) - #9
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)(2000) - #10
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)(2000) - #11
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)(2000) - #12
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)(2000) - #13
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)(2001) - #14
Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields)(2001) - #15
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong)(2001) - #16
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)(2001) - #17
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)(2001) - #18
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)(2001) - #19
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)(2002) - #20
Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan)(2002) - #21
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)(2002) - #22
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley)(2002) - #23
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)(2002) - #24
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)(2003) - #25
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)(2003) - #26
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)(2004) - #27
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)(2004) - #28
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson)(2006) - #29
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)(2007) - #30
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)(2008) - #31
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)(2008) - #32
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)(2011) - #33
Southwest Stories(1993) - #34
Still Wild(2000) - #35Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression(2001)
- #36
Lone Star Literature(2003) - #37Larry passed in March 2021.(20)
- #1
San Francisco Stories (By: John Miller)(1990) - #2
Los Angeles Stories (By: John Miller)(1991) - #3
New Orleans Stories (By: John Miller,Genevieve Anderson)(1992) - #4
Chicago Stories (By: Stuart Dybek,John Miller)(1993) - #5
Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (By: John Miller,KirstenMiller)(1994) - #6
Alaska Stories (By: John Miller,KirstenMiller)(1995) - #7
Texas Stories (By: John Miller,KirstenMiller)(1995) - #8
San Francisco Thrillers (By: Tim Smith,John Miller)(1995) - #9
Cape Cod Stories (By: Tim Smith,John Miller)(2002)
- #1Cadillac Jack(1982)
- #2Anything for Billy(1988)
- #3
Buffalo Girls(1990) - #4
Pretty Boy Floyd (With: Diana Ossana)(1994) - #5
Zeke and Ned (With: Diana Ossana)(1997) - #6Boone's Lick(2000)
- #7Loop Group(2004)
- #8Telegraph Days(2006)
- #9
The Last Kind Words Saloon(2014) - #10
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (With: Annie Proulx,Diana Ossana)(2005)
- #1
Horseman, Pass By / Hud(1961) - #2Leaving Cheyenne(1962)
- #3
Thalia(2017)
About Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry is a prolific American author and screenwriter, born in Wichita Falls, Texas on June 3, 1936. His extensive body of work includes twenty-nine novels, such as the critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <i>Lonesome Dove</i>, three memoirs, two essay collections, and over thirty screenplays. A versatile writer, McMurtry's first published book, <i>Horseman, Pass By</i>, was adapted into the film "Hud," while several of his novels have been adapted into movies and a television mini-series. This literary icon has garnered numerous accolades, including a share of the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain."
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