Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

3 Series • 15 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: Playing with Fire (1990)
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Start with: Slow Motion (1998)
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Start with: 110 Stories (2004)

ⓘ About Dani Shapiro

Dani is a guest editor of Best New American Voices 2010 and a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Oprah, Elle, Granta, The New Yorker, among others, and they’ve also been broadcast on NPR. In 2019, she launched Family Secrets, an original podcast, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. It is an iTunes Top 10 podcast, and it features stories from guests that, like Dani has, uncovered life-changing and long-buried secrets from their families pasts. “Inheritance” won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award, Wired Magazine named it as one of the year’s top Science books, and was named a best book of 2019 by Vanity Fair. When she wrote “Inheritance”, she wrote the first two hundred pages fast, like she was on fire.

All Book Series by Dani Shapiro

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Playing with Fire

Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 1990

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1990
2
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Fugitive Blue

Book 2 of 6 · published 1992

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1992
3
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Picturing the Wreck

Book 3 of 6 · published 1997

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1997
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Family History

Book 4 of 6 · published 2003

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2003
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Black & White

Book 5 of 6 · published 2007

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2007
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Signal Fires

Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2022

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2022
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Slow Motion

Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 1998

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1998
2
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Devotion

Book 2 of 5 · published 2010

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2010
3
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Still Writing

Book 3 of 5 · published 2013

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2013
4
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Hourglass

Book 4 of 5 · published 2017

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2017
5
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Inheritance

Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2019

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2019
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110 Stories

Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2004

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2004
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After

Book 2 of 4 · published 2007

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2007
3
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Goodbye to All That

Book 3 of 4 · published 2013

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2013
4
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Alone Together

Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2020

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2020

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Dani Shapiro?

Dani is a guest editor of Best New American Voices 2010 and a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Oprah, Elle, Granta, The New Yorker, among others, and they’ve also been broadcast on NPR. In 2019, she launched Family Secrets, an original podcast, in collaboration with iHeartMedia.

Which Dani Shapiro series should I start with?

Dani Shapiro's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Playing with Fire (1990).

How many books has Dani Shapiro written?

Dani Shapiro has 15 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2022. They are filed under 3 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Standalone Novels, Non-Fiction and Anthologies.

In what order should Dani Shapiro's series be read?

No reading order is needed: none of the 15 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.

How are Dani Shapiro's books organised into series?

This guide splits Dani Shapiro's 15 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (6 books); Non-Fiction (5 books); Anthologies (4 books).