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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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