Garrison Keillor

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1985
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Lake Wobegon Novel

Lake Wobegon Days (Sep-1985)
A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories (Jan-1989)
Wobegon Boy (Nov-1997)
Lake Wobegon: Summer 1956 (Sep-2001)
Pontoon (Sep-2007)
Liberty (Sep-2008)
Pilgrims (Oct-2009)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Lake Wobegon Days

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    “Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” -- The New York Times...

  • Happy to Be Here

    “Keillor’s best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ludicrous, and as labored as nitrous oxide…. This book will either leave you dumbfounded or happy—almost deser...

  • Don

  • A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

  • Leaving Home

    In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces....

  • We Are Still Married

    “Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip -- -- The Washington Post Book World“Keillor’s lit...

  • Wlt

    In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the ...

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  • The Book of Guys

    "Guys are in trouble these days," says Garrison Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K....



  • Penguin 60s

  • Old Man Who Loved Cheese

    Loving to eat smelly cheese above all other activities, Wallace P. Flynn drives away his friends and family when his hobby becomes overly malodorous and fears that he will never be able to change his wheys. Children's BOMC....

  • Wobegon Boy

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a ...

  • The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

    A best-selling author and his wife collaborate on a coming-of-age story about twelve-year-old Rachel, who believes her parents' eccentricity is rubbing off on her and only feels normal when she plays with the Dairyland Symphony Orchestra. Reprint....

  • Definitely above Average

    From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most ...

  • Lake Wobegon: Summer 1956

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    Meet fourteen-year-old Gary. A self-described "tree-toad,"a sly and endearing geek, Gary has many unwieldy passions, chief among them his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter and the soft-porn masterpiece, High School Orgies. The folks of Lake Wobeg...

  • Love Me

    In this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and failure, and the virtues of real love. Aspiring writer Larry Wyler leads a quiet, decent life with his ...

  • Homegrown Democrat

    In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor des...

  • Good Poems For Hard Times

    "The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. " - The Christian Science MonitorHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headi...

  • A Prairie Home Companion

    The screenplay of iconic radio host Garrison Keillor’s Robert Altman-directed major motion picture, A Prairie Home Companion, starring Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin.   The day of reckoning has come to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, home of...



  • A Visit to Mark Twain's House

    This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut.The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and person...

  • Daddy's Girl

    O baby won’t you dance with meLittle baby bouncing on my kneeWave your hands and shake your feetOoohh baby you’re so sweet… From the familiar pleasures of baby’s favorite food to the joy of dancing together, this collection of three songs ce...

  • Pontoon

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    A fresh and funny Lake Wobegon novel about a woman with a secret life Evelyn was a Sanctified Brethren woman of good standing, a devoted mother, a serious quilter. Only after she dies in her sleep, as she always wished she would, do we find out t...

  • Liberty

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    Just in time for the Fourth of July, a firecracker of a Lake Wobegon novel from bestselling author and radio storyteller Garrison KeillorPublished to wide and enthusiastic acclaim, Liberty is Garrison Keillor?s most ribald Lake Wobegon novel yet, set...

  • Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Fertility

  • Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Patience

  • Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb

  • Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Youth

  • Life among the Lutherans

    Based on Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues, Life among the Lutherans is a collection of stories about the struggles of ordinary people in an imperfect world, the life and work of the pastor who leads them, and the church to whose high standa...

  • Pilgrims

    A Lake Wobegon Novel

    Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to Rome Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her-he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She ...



  • A Christmas Blizzard

    The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and hi...

  • Stories

    """I think people have an absolute ear for what is true,"" Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth-of laughter, joy, and compassion and situations-that makes Keillor such a brilliant and beloved storyteller....

  • Cat, You Better Come Home

    Tired of plain old cat food, Puff leaves home, headed for Europe and the jet-set life, living it up on beaches in Greece and in villas in France-until the day disaster strikes. Then it's scratch, scratch, scratch on the windowsill . . . Garrison ...

  • Guy Noir and the Case of the Straight Skinny

    Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the page On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey ...

  • The Lake Wobegon Virus

    Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized chees...

  • The Adventures of Guy Noir

    Grammy Award Nominee! A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets . . . But on the twelfth Floor of the Acme Building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private eye. This all-n...

  • Pretty Good Joke Book

    Over 2,200 Jokes from America's favorite live radio showA treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion.A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and...

  • Boom Town

    Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with se...

  • Me by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente

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    In a political satire inspired by--but not based on--recent events, the new governor of Minnesota recounts to a ghostwriter his boyhood as an adoptee, his military experiences as a Navy Walrus in Vietnam, and his life in professional wrestling...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Garrison Keillor has published 38 books.

Garrison Keillor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Boom Town, was published in April 2022.

The first book by Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, was published in September 1985.

Yes. Garrison Keillor has 1 series.
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