Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
novel · First published 2026
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Jane Smiley Books in Order
Jane Smiley is an American novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other work includes novels, short-story collections, literary criticism, biography, memoir, essay collections, young-adult horse novels, and children's literature. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award.
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A Thousand Acres
Pulitzer Prize-winning standalone novel and her best-known entry point.
Some Luck
Opening volume of the completed Last Hundred Years trilogy.
The Georges and the Jewels
Opening volume of the Oak Valley Ranch middle-grade horse series.
Riding Lessons
Opening volume of the Ellen & Ned middle-grade trilogy.
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
A representative entry point to her essays and literary criticism.
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Books by series
young-adult-series · completed
The Horses of Oak Valley Ranch
A five-volume middle-grade series about Abby Lovitt, horses, family, and adolescence at an Oak Valley ranch in California.
novel-trilogy · completed
The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga
A three-volume family saga following the Langdon family in Iowa across a century of American life.
young-adult-trilogy · completed
An Ellen & Ned Book
A middle-grade horse trilogy following Ellen, a young rider, and her connection to the former racehorse Ned.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (17)
- Barn BlindAmazon ↗
novel · 1980
- At Paradise GateAmazon ↗
novel · 1981
- Duplicate KeysAmazon ↗
novel · 1984
- The GreenlandersAmazon ↗
novel · 1988
- Catskill CraftsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1988
- Ordinary Love & Good WillAmazon ↗
novella-collection · 1989
- A Thousand AcresAmazon ↗
novel · 1991
- MooAmazon ↗
novel · 1995
- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie NewtonAmazon ↗
novel · 1998
- Horse HeavenAmazon ↗
novel · 2000
- Good FaithAmazon ↗
novel · 2003
- Ten Days in the HillsAmazon ↗
novel · 2007
- Private LifeAmazon ↗
novel · 2010
- Perestroika in ParisAmazon ↗
novel · 2020
- A Dangerous BusinessAmazon ↗
novel · 2022
- LuckyAmazon ↗
novel · 2024
- Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie NewtonAmazon ↗
novel · 2026
Nonfiction (4)
Short fiction (1)
- The Age of GriefAmazon ↗
short-story-collection · 1987
Essays and speeches (2)
Children's books (1)
- Twenty YawnsAmazon ↗
picture-book · 2016