Jim Harrison Books in Order

Interviews with Gwendolyn Brooks spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Rita Dove spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Stanley Kaufmann spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Joseph Brodsky spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Audre Lorde spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Gloria Naylor spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with John le Carré spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Ray Bradbury spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A son tries to make sense of his family's past and his father's damaging legacy in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As he digs into old violence and money, the novel becomes a hard look at inheritance, guilt, and the cost of looking away.

Interviews with Don DeLillo spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Gabriel García Márquez spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Gore Vidal spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Isaac Asimov spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Jack Kerouac spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Robert Penn Warren spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

A collection of three late novellas about marriages, politics, and the ways people lie to themselves to get through a season. Harrison keeps the stakes human and close, with quick humor and sudden sadness.

Interviews with Thomas McGuane spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Poems that pay attention to daylight, seasons, and the way time slips. Harrison writes about love, anger, animals, and the body as it changes, mixing plain talk with sudden lyric turns.

Interviews with Larry Brown spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Leon Forrest spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Interviews with Sonia Sanchez spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.

Told through several linked voices, this novel follows an extended family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula as illness forces them to talk honestly about love, obligation, and what they owe each other. It's a story about reconciliation, not easy fixes.

After a bruising divorce, a former teacher and farmer hits the road with a plan to visit all fifty states. The trip turns into a funny, aching tour of motels, old friends, lust, and late-life reinvention.

A poetry collection grounded in the natural world, with poems that balance awe and skepticism. Harrison writes about animals, weather, desire, and loss, looking for meaning in small, stubborn details.

Three novellas that range from rural desire to family fallout, including a return to Brown Dog in a later stage of his hard-living life. Harrison writes with rough tenderness, letting the landscape press against every decision.

A wide-ranging essay collection that swings from hunting and fishing to books, travel, and the stubborn pleasures of eating well. Harrison mixes story, opinion, and hard-won experience without smoothing the edges.

Detective Sunderson, close to retirement, starts looking into a self-styled guru running a cult near his Upper Peninsula home. What seems like local weirdness turns darker, and Sunderson's own appetites and doubts keep getting in the way.

Poems that roam through wild places, memory, and the body, often in quick, conversational bursts. Harrison leans into contradiction, grief, and appetite, letting small observations open into bigger questions.

A linked set of stories following Brown Dog, a mixed-blood misfit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as he drifts through jobs, women, and trouble. It's funny and bleak at once, with the woods always close and civilization never quite trusted.

A career-spanning poetry gathering that mixes earlier work with later poems, showing how Harrison returned again and again to hunger, animals, weather, and grief. The voice stays direct and human, even when the subject turns dark.

A trio of novellas about aging bodies, sudden lust, and the pull of water and wilderness. Harrison's characters keep trying to start over, even when history, family, and habit are already in the room.

A late poetry collection that keeps circling hunger, weather, animals, and the plain fact of getting older. Harrison moves between rough humor and sudden tenderness, with short poems that feel like notes from the field.

Retired detective Sunderson is back in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, older, meaner, and trying to keep his head down. When violence and old grudges arrive next door, his quiet retirement turns into a messy investigation.

Harrison's late collection of novellas, moving between Michigan and farther-off roads, where older characters look for meaning in sex, friendship, and the natural world. The stories mix barroom comedy with moments of hard-earned clarity.

A selection of Jim Harrison's food writing and personal essays, moving from French bistros to home kitchens. Between meals he talks about travel, friendship, and aging, in a voice that stays blunt and funny.

A selection of Jim Harrison's most representative poems, chosen from across his career. It's a strong entry point to his poetic voice, mixing nature writing, lust, grief, and blunt humor in compact lines.

A focused poetry volume gathering Jim Harrison's ghazals, a form built on repeating lines and sudden turns. The poems move between desire, hunger, and the wild, using the form's music to sharpen his plain talk.

A large selection of Harrison's nonfiction, bringing together essays on food, travel, fishing and hunting, and books. It reads like a long conversation with an opinionated, funny guide who keeps changing his mind in public.

Interviews with Jimmy Carter spanning their career, focused on key books, influences, and craft. A quick, candid way to hear the author in their own words.