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Walt Whitman Works Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Walt Whitman Works 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 Walt Whitman Works series? Start with "Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times" (1842) and follow publication order through all 57 books.
The complete Walt Whitman Works reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
1842
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
0
Leaves of Grass
0
Song of Myself
0
Manly Health and Training with Off-Hand Hints Towards Their Conditions
0
Oh Captain! My Captain!
0
Drum Taps
0
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
0
Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile
0
Democratic Vistas and Other Papers
0
Civil War Poetry and Prose
0
Specimen Days
0
November Boughs
0
An American Primer: With Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript
1904
The Gathering of the Forces
1920
Rivulets of Prose
1928
I Hear America Singing
1966
Lafayette in Brooklyn
1973
The Sleepers; A Poem
1973
Pictures: An Unpublished Poem Of Walt Whitman
1977
The half-breed, and other stories
1978
Memoranda during the War
1988
I Sing The Body Electric
1995
Collect
2004
The Mystic Poets
2004
Shooting Niagara: And After?
2015
Beat! Beat! Drums!
2015
Song of the Broad-Axe
2015
Chants Democratic
2015
To a Pupil
2015
Boston Town
2015
The Poetry of the Future
2018
Somewhere Waiting: Song of Myself
2018
President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn
2018
Live Oak, with Moss
2019
Brooklyn
2019
The World Below the Brine
2021
Selected Letters of Walt Whitman
1855
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
0
Guide to Manly Health and Training
0
The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion
1975
New York dissected: A sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of grass
1976
Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada - With Extracts from Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-Books
1977
City of Orgies and Other Poems
1980
Selected Poems 1855-1892
1980
Poetry and Prose
1982
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts: Volume I: Family Notes and Autobiography, Brooklyn and New York
1984
Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman
1988
Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum-Taps
1991
Whitman: Poems
1994
Memories of President Lincoln
1996
The Walt Whitman Reader
2000
Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
2005
Masculine Beauty of Walt Whitman's Poetry Of Same-Sex Affection
2014
Whitman's Dogs: Leaves of Grass and Other Poems
2016
Every Hour, Every Atom of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments
2020
"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up": Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (With: Christopher Merrill,Ed Folsom)
2021
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