Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is a bestselling and award-winning science-fiction novelist from Oregon. She is the author of “The Small Backs of Joan” that won the Ken Kesey Award at the Oregon Book Awards in 2016 and “The Book of Joan.” Her debut novel “Dora: A Headcase” was a huge success while her memoir “The Chronology of Water” won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Oregon Book Awards in addition to the PNBA Award for creative nonfiction by PEN Center USA. In 2016, she gave a popular talk on “The Beauty of Being a Misfit,” which would subsequently be adapted into a book by RED Books.

The best place to start is the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series, the earliest of Lidia Yuknavitch's multi-book series: it opens with Making Homes in the West/Indies (2001) and runs to 107 books across 2001–2022, ending with Erich Auerbach and the Secular World (2022).

Lidia Yuknavitch has 128 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1997 and 2025. 107 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series with 107 books — and 21 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. Lidia Yuknavitch's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory (2001–2022, 107 books).

This guide splits Lidia Yuknavitch's 128 books into 1 named series and 21 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory (107 books, 2001–2022).