Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art After Modernism | 1984 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 2 | Wordplays Five | 1986 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 3 | High Risk | 1991 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 4 | Storming the Reality Studio | 1991 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 5 | Fiction International 22 | 1992 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 6 | Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation | 1993 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 7 | The Mammoth Book of Erotica | 1994 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 8 | The Artist in Society | 1995 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 9 | Dust | 1996 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 10 | Rapid Eye | 1996 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 11 | Spectacular Optical | 1998 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 12 | The Review Of Contemporary Fiction | 1999 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 13 | The Good Parts | 2000 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 14 | Artspace Is/Artspace Was | 2001 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 15 | Essential Acker: The Selected Writings | 2002 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 16 | Frozen Tears II | 2004 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 17 | Against Expression | 2010 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 18 | The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories By Women | 2012 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
| 19 | Lost & Found | 2015 | Kathy Acker | Buy |
Kathy Acker’s writing appeared in anthologies throughout her career and continued to be collected after her death. These range from art criticism (Art After Modernism, 1984) and experimental theater (Wordplays Five, 1986) to cyberpunk fiction (Storming the Reality Studio, 1991) and erotica (The Mammoth Book of Erotica, 1994).
The most useful single-volume anthology for new readers is Essential Acker: The Selected Writings (2002), edited by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper, which pulls together excerpts and complete shorter works from across her career. Against Expression (2010), edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, places Acker in the context of conceptual writing. Several of these anthologies are out of print but remain available secondhand, and they offer a way to encounter Acker’s work alongside the writers and artists she was in conversation with during her lifetime.