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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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "Plant Dreaming Deep" (1968) and follow publication order through all 37 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Plant Dreaming Deep
1968
Journal of a Solitude
1973
A World of Light: Portraits And Celebrations
1976
The House by the Sea: A Journal
1977
Recovering: A Journal
1980
At Seventy
1984
May Sarton: A Self-Portrait
1986
I Knew A Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
1988
After the Stroke
1988
Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
1992
Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year: A Journal of the Eightieth Year
1993
May Sarton Among the Usual Days: A Portrait
1993
From May Sarton's Well: Writings of May Sarton
1994
May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life : Journals and Memoirs
1994
At Eighty-Two
1995
Writings on Writing
1995
May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1916-1954
1997
Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley
1999
Encounter in April
1937
Inner Landscape
1939
As Does New Hampshire, And Other Poems
1967
A Grain of Mustard Seed
1970
A Durable Fire
1972
Collected poems (1930-1973)
1974
Selected Poems of May Sarton
1978
Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poetry of May Sarton
1980
Halfway to Silence: New Poems
1980
Letters from Maine
1984
The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Early Poems
1988
Collected Poems, 1930-1993
1992
Coming into Eighty: Poems
1994
A Private Mythology: Poems
1996
As Does New Hampshire
2024
Writing Women's Lives
1994
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2
2000
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths
2001
In the year 1993, she won the Levinson Prize for Poetry.
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