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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone 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 Standalone series? Start with "Lives of Girls and Women" (1971) and follow publication order through all 59 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Lives of Girls and Women
1971
Queenie
1999
Away from Her
2007
The Office
2015
Dance of the Happy Shades
1968
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
1974
The Beggar Maid
1977
Who Do You Think You Are?
1977
The Moons of Jupiter
1983
The Progress of Love
1985
Friend of My Youth
1990
Open Secrets
1994
Selected Stories
1996
The Love of a Good Woman
1998
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
2001
No Love Lost
2003
Vintage Munro
2004
Runaway
2004
Carried Away
2006
View From Castle Rock
2006
Too Much Happiness
2009
My Best Stories
2009
New Selected Stories
2011
Dear Life
2012
Lying Under the Apple Tree
2014
Family Furnishings
2014
A Wilderness Station
2015
Julieta
2016
Identity And Self Respect
1952
Points of View
1956
Women and Fiction
1975
Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers
1989
From Ink Lake
1990
The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories
1990
The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3
1991
The Best American Short Stories 1991
1991
The Literary Traveller
1994
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
2000
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
The Best American Short Stories 2001
2001
PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction
2002
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
2005
The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction.
2008
The Best American Mystery Stories 2009
2009
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
Fathers: A Literary Anthology
2011
Finding the Words
2011
The Best American Short Stories 2012
2012
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013
2013
The Best American Essays 2013
2013
Woman: An Anthology
2014
That Glimpse of Truth
2014
Every Father's Daughter
2015
Dreams And Nightmares: At Bay Press Fiction Annual
2016
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
2022
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