Order of Louisa May Alcott Books
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American author of children’s fiction, young adult fiction, thrillers and poetry. Her writing career took off while she was working as a nurse during the Civil War and writing about her experiences (for what became Hospital Sketches). Alcott is best known for her children’s novel Little Women – a Civil War-era coming of age story that spawned multiple sequels. The novel Little Women gave her the financial independence she desired and the ability to continue writing until her death.
Louisa May Alcott’s first book was the short story collection Flower Fables. Her work has been published as recently as 1997. Below is a list of Louisa May Alcott’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Little Women Books
(with Porter Grand)
| Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy | (1868) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Good Wives | (1869) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys | (1871) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Women and Werewolves | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag Books
| Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag | (1872) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shawl-Straps | (1872) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cupid and Chow Chow | (1873) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Girls | (1877) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc. | (1879) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving | (1882) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Eight Cousins Books
| Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill | (1875) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rose in Bloom | (1876) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Inheritance | (1849) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Moods | (1864) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Old-Fashioned Girl | (1869) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Work | (1873) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Modern Mephistopheles | (1877) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under the Lilacs | (1878) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jack & Jill | (1880) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Proverb Stories | (1882) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lulu's Library | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Long Fatal Love Chase | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Flower Fables | (1854) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Modern Cinderella | (1860) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Picket Duty, and Other Tales | (1864) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Marble Woman | (1865) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Behind a Mask | (1867) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories | (1882) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spinning-Wheel Stories | (1884) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Garland for Girls | (1887) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Whisper in the Dark | (1889) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Louisa Alcott Reader | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Glimpses of Louisa | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Short Stories | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Plots and Counterplots | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Intimate Anthology | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hidden Louisa May Alcott | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Works of Louisa May Alcott | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Double Life | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott Unmasked | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Modern Magic | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Quiet Little Woman | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Poems of Louisa May Alcott | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Early Stories of Louisa May Alcott, 1852-1860 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Brownie and the PrincessOther Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doctor Dorn's Revenge and A Strange Island | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Candy Country and How They Ran Away | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Morning-Glories | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sisters | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Vintage Christmas | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| May Flowers | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
| Transcendental Wild Oats | (1873) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Marjorie's Three Gifts | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Diana & Persis | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kate's Choice | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Debby's Debut | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love and Self Love | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Civil War Hospital Sketches | (1863) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hospital Sketches | (1863) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power | (1866) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals | (1889) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Journals of Louisa May Alcott | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louisa May Alcott's Civil War | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters' Letters from Europe, 1870-1871 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: Good Wives was also published as Part Second of Little Women. The Inheritance was finished in 1849, but not published until 1997. A Long Fatal Love Chase was completed in 1866, but went unpublished until 1995. A Long Fatal Love Chase, The Abbot’s Ghost and Behind a Mask were written as A.M. Barnard. A Modern Mephistopheles was published anonymously.
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