Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| No More Than Five in a Bed | 1962 | Buy |
| Gaslights and Gingerbread | 1965 | Buy |
| Cherry Creek Gothic | 1971 | Buy |
| Yesterday’s Denver | 1974 | Buy |
| Sacred Paint | 1979 | Buy |
| Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps | 1985 | Buy |
| Colorado Homes | 1986 | Buy |
| The Quilt That Walked to Golden | 2004 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Buster Midnight’s Cafe | 1990 | Buy |
| The Persian Pickle Club | 1995 | Buy |
| Prayers for Sale | 1997 | Buy |
| The Diary of Mattie Spenser | 1997 | Buy |
| Alice’s Tulips | 2000 | Buy |
| The Chili Queen | 2002 | Buy |
| New Mercies | 2005 | Buy |
| Tallgrass | 2007 | Buy |
| Whiter Than Snow | 2010 | Buy |
| The Bride’s House | 2011 | Buy |
| The Quilt Walk | 2012 | Buy |
| True Sisters | 2012 | Buy |
| Fallen Women | 2013 | Buy |
| Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky | 2014 | Buy |
| A Quilt for Christmas | 2014 | Buy |
| The Last Midwife | 2015 | Buy |
| Hardscrabble | 2018 | Buy |
| The Patchwork Bride | 2018 | Buy |
| Someplace to Call Home | 2019 | Buy |
| Westering Women | 2020 | Buy |
| Little Souls | 2022 | Buy |
| Tenmile | 2022 | Buy |
| Where Coyotes Howl | 2023 | Buy |
| Tough Luck | 2025 | Buy |
Sandra Dallas started her writing career with non-fiction about Colorado’s history, covering everything from Victorian architecture to ghost towns and mining camps. Her first book, No More Than Five in a Bed (1962), explored Colorado’s hotel history, and she spent the next two decades documenting the state’s buildings, neighborhoods, and cultural heritage.
In 1990, Dallas turned to fiction with Buster Midnight’s Cafe and quickly found her audience. Her novels are set against the backdrop of the American West, often in small Colorado towns during periods of hardship. Quilting is a frequent thread in her stories, both as a craft her characters practice and as a way of connecting women across generations. Books like The Persian Pickle Club, Alice’s Tulips, and A Quilt for Christmas center on female friendships formed around the quilting frame.
Dallas has published steadily for over six decades, with recent novels like Where Coyotes Howl (2023) and Tough Luck (2025) continuing her focus on strong women facing difficult circumstances in the rural West. Her work has earned comparisons to other regional fiction writers, though her particular combination of quilting culture, Colorado settings, and historical detail is very much her own.