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Ernest J. Gaines Books in Order
Ernest J. Gaines is a renowned novelist, short story writer, and educator. Born to a sharecropping family, he began picking cotton in the fields by age nine and attended school sporadically, with only five or six months of education per year. At fifteen, he moved to California to join his mother and stepfather, as his Louisiana parish lacked a high school for African Americans. In California, he discovered his passion for writing. Gaines attended San Francisco State University, served in the military, and secured a prestigious writing fellowship to Stanford University. He has received numerous accolades, including being a MacArthur Foundation fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and the French Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Ernest J. Gaines's book series? Ernest J. Gaines has written 4 book series. The most notable is the Ernest J. Gaines series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Ernest J. Gaines
- #1
My Grandpa and the Haint(2015) - #2
Bloodline(1968) - #3
Mozart and Leadbelly(2005)
- #1
Three W's(2019)
- #1
Catherine Carmier(1964) - #2
Of Love and Dust(1968) - #3
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman(1971) - #4
A Long Day in November(1971) - #5In My Father's House(1978)
- #6A Gathering of Old Men(1983)
- #7A Lesson Before Dying(1993)
- #8
The Tragedy of Brady Sims(2017)
- #1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969) - #2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981) - #3
Conversations with Graham Greene(1983) - #4
Conversations with Eudora Welty(1985) - #5
Conversations with Walker Percy(1985) - #6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985) - #7
Conversations with William Styron(1985) - #8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986) - #9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman(1986) - #10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams(1986) - #11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986) - #12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987) - #13
Truman Capote: Conversations(1987) - #14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987) - #15
Conversations with Peter Taylor(1987) - #16
Conversations with Arthur Miller(1987) - #17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988) - #18
Conversations with Edward Albee(1988) - #19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988) - #20
Conversations with Norman Mailer(1988) - #21
Conversations with Robert Graves(1989) - #22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989) - #23
Conversations with Shelby Foote(1989) - #24
Conversations with Robertson Davies(1989) - #25
Conversations with James Baldwin(1989) - #26
Conversations with John Gardner(1990) - #27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur(1990) - #28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe(1990) - #29
Conversations with Raymond Carver(1990) - #30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990) - #31
Conversations with Reynolds Price(1991) - #32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud(1991) - #33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991) - #34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992) - #35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder(1992) - #36
Conversations with Robert Coles(1992) - #37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992) - #38
More Conversations with Walker Percy(1993) - #39
Conversations with Richard Wright(1993) - #40
Conversations with Paul Bowles(1993) - #41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994) - #42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka(1994) - #43
Conversations with Toni Morrison(1994) - #44
Conversations with Saul Bellow(1994) - #45
Conversations with Henry Miller(1994) - #46
Conversations with Ernest Gaines(1995) - #47
Conversations with Ralph Ellison(1995) - #48
Conversations with Chester Himes(1995) - #49
Conversations with Susan Sontag(1995) - #50
Conversations with Ishmael Reed(1995) - #51
Conversations with Derek Walcott(1996) - #52
More Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996) - #53
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996) - #54
Conversations with Pauline Kael(1996) - #55
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997) - #56
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997) - #57
Conversations with Chinua Achebe(1997) - #58
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998) - #59
Conversations with Denise Levertov(1998) - #60
Conversations With William Faulkner(1999) - #61
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999) - #62
Conversations With John Fowles(1999) - #63
Conversations with Salman Rushdie(2000) - #64
Conversations with William S. Burroughs(2000) - #65
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000) - #66
Conversations with Chaim Potok(2001) - #67
Conversations with Richard Ford(2001) - #68
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001) - #69
Conversations with Mary Gordon(2002) - #70
Conversations with Jim Harrison(2002) - #71
Conversations with Clarence Major(2002) - #72
Conversations with Margaret Walker(2002) - #73
Conversations with Erica Jong(2002) - #74
Elie Wiesel: Conversations(2002) - #75
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003) - #76
Conversations with Rita Dove(2003) - #77
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003) - #78
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003) - #79
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003) - #80
Conversations with Gloria Naylor(2004) - #81
Conversations with Audre Lorde(2004) - #82
Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004) - #83
Conversations With John le Carré(2004) - #84
Conversations with Isaac Asimov(2005) - #85
Conversations with Don DeLillo(2005) - #86
Conversations with Gore Vidal(2005) - #87
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005) - #88
Conversations with Jack Kerouac(2005) - #89
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005) - #90
Conversations with Thomas McGuane(2006) - #91
Conversations with Larry Brown(2007) - #92
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007) - #93
Conversations with Wendell Berry(2007) - #94
Conversations with Leon Forrest(2007) - #95
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
About Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines is a renowned novelist, short story writer, and educator. Born to a sharecropping family, he began picking cotton in the fields by age nine and attended school sporadically, with only five or six months of education per year. At fifteen, he moved to California to join his mother and stepfather, as his Louisiana parish lacked a high school for African Americans. In California, he discovered his passion for writing. Gaines attended San Francisco State University, served in the military, and secured a prestigious writing fellowship to Stanford University. He has received numerous accolades, including being a MacArthur Foundation fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and the French Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier.
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