Gladys Taber Books in Order

This early poetry collection shows Taber before Stillmeadow made her famous. It offers a more literary beginning to her career, while already hinting at her feeling for mood, memory, and place.

Taber's first novel is a character-driven story about emotional strain, shifting relationships, and the quiet pressures of ordinary life. It has the close observation and inward focus that marked her early fiction.

During the Depression, a jobless man feels unable to claim the woman he loves. Moving from New York to rural Connecticut, the novel follows hardship, pride, and the search for a decent future.

This family saga follows the Prescotts in a small Wisconsin town as they rise after the war and face the crash that follows. At its center is a mother holding the family together through change.

Drawn from Taber's early magazine columns, this book introduces Stillmeadow Farm and the life built there. Housekeeping, gardening, animals, and hard work all become part of a warm country record.

A lightly fictionalized portrait of life much like Taber's own, this novel follows a country columnist juggling deadlines, guests, household muddles, and animals. It is cozy, funny, and full of old-house charm.

In a New England town, the Warren family is thrown off course when the father leaves his university post and old feelings return. Taber balances marital strain, young love, and family trouble with a warm domestic eye.

This midcentury novel turns on love, disappointment, and the possibility of renewal. Taber writes about people trying to trust feeling again when spring seems to promise more than life usually gives.

Part guide, part affectionate tribute, this book draws on Taber's long experience with cocker spaniels. She writes about their care, training, breeding, and the comic, loyal energy that made her love the breed.

A warm, character-centered novel about love, family duty, and the hopes people carry through uncertain times. Taber keeps the focus on relationships, showing how private choices ripple through ordinary lives.

Janet, a Navy nurse working in a New York base hospital during World War II, is pulled between two very different men. The book blends wartime pressure, romance, and questions about what kind of future to choose.

This novel follows an American family through the years just before and during World War II. Domestic worries, changing loyalties, and the pressure of history all arrive on one ordinary street.

This practical guide shows how to use flowers simply and well in everyday rooms. Taber and Ruth Kistner focus on arrangements that suit real homes rather than formal showpieces.

An early Stillmeadow cookbook that brings together recipes, kitchen habits, and the atmosphere of Taber's farmhouse table. It offers food, but also the sense of companionship that made her domestic writing so appealing.

A gathering of favorite Stillmeadow recipes, this book mixes practical cooking with the warmth of farm and family life. It is as much about kitchen atmosphere as it is about what ends up on the table.

A children's story about two little seahorses discovering their underwater world. Gentle adventure and curiosity carry the book, making it a small ocean tale with a tender touch.

Organized month by month, this classic Stillmeadow book turns an old Connecticut farmhouse into a whole world. Taber writes about home, animals, neighbors, and postwar quiet with warmth and steadiness.

Taber remembers her energetic, difficult, much-loved father in this intimate family memoir. The book also opens onto her childhood, giving readers a clearer sense of the people who shaped her.

A clear, inviting introduction to dogs for younger readers, covering breeds, habits, and why dogs make such faithful companions. Taber writes with the easy authority of someone who truly knew them.

Taber circles through the year at Stillmeadow, finding meaning in weather, garden work, animals, and the old house itself. The book deepens the sense of place that made the series so loved.

In these letters with Barbara Webster of Sugarbridge, Taber shares country news, animals, weather, and the pleasures and annoyances of rural living. The book feels like an ongoing conversation between friends who truly notice the seasons.

A year at Stillmeadow unfolds through daily observations, seasonal chores, and small household dramas. It is one of Taber's fullest portraits of the farm and the calm, practical life she made there.

Set in a Midwestern college community during one spring term, this novel follows romances, family strains, and private reckonings. Taber lets several lives intersect as hopes change with the season.

Another welcoming visit to Stillmeadow, this book gathers day-to-day reflections on farm life in Connecticut. Animals, meals, weather, and neighborly moments all appear in a loose, companionable mix.

Taber looks back on how Stillmeadow was found and made into a home. It is part memoir, part country chronicle, full of old-house problems, weather, animals, and the pleasures of rural Connecticut.

After the sudden death of her lifelong friend Jill, Taber writes honestly about grief and the slow work of going on. It is a personal book meant to comfort readers walking the same hard road.

More than a recipe collection, this cookbook brings readers into the Stillmeadow kitchen. Alongside practical dishes, Taber shares the homey atmosphere, memories, and everyday pleasure of feeding people well.

Built around the seasons, this late book gathers reflections on country living and the habits that make a life feel grounded. It reads like a small philosophy of home, weather, work, and gratitude.

A countrywoman's journal arranged through the months, this book follows the changing year at Stillmeadow. Chores, weather, visitors, and quiet thoughts all find a place in its steady seasonal rhythm.

Taber writes with affection and experience about dogs, daily life with them, and the way they change a household. The book blends anecdote, observation, and the kind of dog wisdom earned by long practice.

Written for beginners, this friendly guide shows how to arrange flowers using simple materials and a sharp eye for beauty. Taber makes the subject feel playful, practical, and close to home.

This large-format keepsake pairs photographs of Stillmeadow with Taber's recollections and descriptive notes. It lets readers see the house, rooms, grounds, and atmosphere that shaped so much of her writing.

A loving portrait of Amber, the strong-willed cat who took over Taber's household and affections. It is part pet memoir, part meditation on how one animal can change the mood of a home.

A compact selection of favorite passages and reflective moments from the Stillmeadow books. It is less a full narrative than a chance to linger over the moods, memories, and comforts of Taber's world.

After years at Stillmeadow, Taber opens the door to her Cape Cod home at Still Cove. Arranged by seasons, the book mixes landscape, neighbors, tides, and the close-knit life of the Cape.

This cookbook gathers favorite recipes from both Stillmeadow and Still Cove. Taber mixes practical meals with the memories, moods, and places that made them worth keeping.

A seasonal journal of life in the Connecticut countryside, filled with household notes, recipes, neighbors, and small natural wonders. It is one of Taber's later, most reflective books about living closely with the year.

In this autobiography, Taber looks back on her wandering childhood, family history, and early steps toward writing. It fills in the life behind the Stillmeadow books without losing her plain, intimate voice.

This anthology draws together highlights from seven Stillmeadow books. It is a good sampler of Taber's country writing, with seasons, household wisdom, and the enduring pull of place.

Taber returns to Amber with more affectionate stories and reflections on sharing a house with a very determined cat. It is funny, observant, and full of the strange negotiations pet lovers know well.

Based on her Still Cove sketches, this posthumous journal follows a year on Cape Cod. Taber writes about weather, friendship, birds, water, and the quieter rhythms of her later life.

These dog-centered stories explore training, breeding, showing, and the everyday bargains between humans and their pets. It is a sentimental collection, but one grounded in real knowledge and affection.

Set in a Wisconsin mill town, this novel follows a mill-owning family as labor unrest and a strike upset the local order. Taber brings both domestic tensions and class conflict into view.

This collection gathers thirteen short stories by Taber. The pieces move through family life, small-town feeling, and everyday turning points, with her usual warmth for ordinary people.

A rich girl and a poor young man are pulled apart when her family sends him to a hard northern lumber-camp job. The novel turns on class, pride, and whether love can survive the test.

A child-friendly guide to cats that covers care, feeding, history, and the curious habits that make cats so distinctive. Short anecdotes and vivid illustrations help turn basic facts into pleasure.