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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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