Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison is an American author who was best known for his fiction, poetry, writing about food, essays about outdoors and reviews. Despite publishing several works, Harrison is best known for the Legends of the Fall. Many at times, Jim Harrison has been referred to as a force of nature, and his publications have been compared to that of Ernst Hemingway and William Faulkner.

The best place to start is the Dalva series, the earliest of Jim Harrison's multi-book series: it opens with Dalva (1988) and runs to 2 books across 1988–1998, ending with The Road Home (1998). Jim Harrison's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Jim Harrison has 144 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1965 and 2023. 103 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Detective Sunderson series with 2 books — and 41 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jim Harrison's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Dalva (1988–1998, 2 books), True North (2004–2007, 2 books) and Detective Sunderson (2011–2015, 2 books).

This guide splits Jim Harrison's 144 books into 4 named series and 41 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Detective Sunderson (2 books, 2011–2015); Dalva (2 books, 1988–1998); True North (2 books, 2004–2007); Literary Conversations (97 books, 1969–2023).