Louise Erdrich Books In Order
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The Birchbark House | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Game of Silence | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Porcupine Year | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chickadee | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Makoons | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Love Medicine Books
Love Medicine | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beet Queen | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tracks | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bingo Palace | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Burning Love | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Souls | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Painted Drum | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Crown of Columbus | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Antelope Wife / Antelope Woman | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Master Butchers Singing Club | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Plague of Doves | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Tag | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Round House | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
LaRose | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Home of the Living God | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Watchman | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sentence | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Grandmother's Pigeon | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Range Eternal | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Imagination | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Route Two | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Jacklight | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baptism of Desire | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Original Fire | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Convertible | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1947 | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1956 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1979 | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1982 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1983 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1992 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1993 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1996 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1997 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2003 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2006 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2008 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2019 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2022 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Writer's Library | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Louise Erdrich is one of the well known author of the Ojibwe who has written a number of poetry, novels, children’s books, etc. Many of her writings feature the Native American settings as well as characters. She is an active member of the Chippewa Indians’ Turtle Mountain Band. Louise is widely popular as one of the most significant authors of the 2nd wave of the Renaissance of the native Americans. In the year 2009, one of her novels titled ‘The Plague of Doves’ won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was also one of the finalists of the Pulitzer Prize. Author Louise also won the National Book Award in the year 2012 in the category of Best Fiction. Apart from writing novels and poetry, she also runs a small and independent bookstore known as the Birchbark Books, which is located in Minneapolis. This shop focuses mainly on the Native American literature and community of the Native Americans in the Twin Cities.
Author Louise was born as Karen Louise Erdrich on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota, United States. She was the first child among her seven siblings and was born to Rita, who is half Ojibwe and half French-American, and Ralph Erdrich, who was a German-American. Both the parents of author Louise were teachers at a boarding school located in Wahpeton, North Dakota. It was started by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was headed by her maternal grandmother named Patrick Gourneau, who served as the tribal chairman for many years. Louise had developed an interest in writing stories from a very young age and was encouraged by her father in her skill, who gave her one nickel for each story that she used to write. One of her sisters named Heidi also used to write stories and poetry along with her and has now established herself as a successful poet. She lives in Minnesota and releases her written works under the name Heidi E. Erdrich. Louise’s other sister named Lise Erdrich has written a number of children’s books and several collections of essays and fiction novels.
Before beginning her career as a professional writer, Louise studies at the Dartmouth College between the years 1972 and 1976. She was a part of the first batch of co-ed class started by the college and graduated with her A.B. in the subject of English. While studying at the Dartmouth College, author Louise met with her future husband named Michael Dorris, who was the director of the new program of the Native American Studies at that time and later, went on to become an anthropologist and author. After completing her graduation, Louise earned her Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars in the year 1979. In the year 1981, she married Michael Dorris and brought up 3 biological and 3 adopted children. Dorris and Louise separated from each other in the year 1995 and their marriage ended with the suicide death of Michael Dorris in the year 1997. As of today, author Louise lives in Minnesota along with all her children and remains indulges in her writing works all the time. In the year 2009, she returned to the Dartmouth College in order to be honored with the honorary Doctorate of Letters and also delivered an addressing speech of commencement. Along with her two sisters, author Louise often conducts writing workshops in North Dakota.
The novel series, The Birchbark House written by author Louise Erdrich consists of a total of 5 books published between the years 1999 and 2016. The first novel of the series was titled ‘The Birchbark House’ and was published by the Disney-Hyperion publishing house in the year 1999. The plot of this novel deals with the pioneer lives of the Americans during the 19th century, which is seen through the visions of a 7 year old Ojibwa girl named Omakayas. She is also called as Little Frog because she took her first step as a hop. When Omakayas had been just a small child, she was the only survivor of the smallpox epidemic on the Spirit Island, and was rescued by a brave woman named Tallow. She had taken Omakayas to the Ojibwa family living on Madeline Island in Lake Superior. Author Louise has described the life of Omakayas and her new family through 4 different seasons in the year 1847, including the chilling winter.
In the later parts of the novel, Louise has given a description of the daily life of the Native American family of Omakayas, as they keep themselves busy with picking berries, scaring crows in cornfields, and tanning moose hides. They also encountered the bear cubs in the region commonly and talked about ghost stories around the bonfires. Before writing this novel, author Louise spoke with the elders of Ojibwa, studied letters of the travelers, and even spent some time with her family on the Madeline Island. She closely observed the reactions of the Native Americans to stones, woods, bear, crayfish, and deer. Louise has described Omakayas as a strong, likable, and intense character. She is depicted as having mixed emotions for he siblings, discovering her new and unique talents, and developing devotion for her pet crow named Andeg.
The second novel of The Birchbark House series written by author Louise Erdrich was published under the title ‘The Game of Silence’. It was released by the HarperCollins publishing house in the year 2005 and continued to depict the life story of the Native American girl named Omakayas or Little Frog, as she is often referred to as, living on the Madeline Island in Lake Superior. In the opening sequence of the plot of the novel, author Louise has depicted the time period of the year 1850 in which Omakayas’s island gets visited by a group of several mysterious people. Omakayas learns from those people that the white people or the chimookomanag have ordered her and the people living on the island to go away from the island and move far in the west direction. On that day, Omakayas realizes that the place which was so valuable to her and so important that she never felt she possessed it in the first place, could face danger from the white people. The novel became extremely successful and went on to win the Scott O’Dell Award in the year 2006.
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