Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went South | 1980 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 2 | Separate Checks | 1984 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 3 | Herself in Love | 1987 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 4 | John Dollar | 1989 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 5 | Eveless Eden | 1995 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 6 | Almost Heaven | 1998 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 7 | Evidence of Things Unseen | 2003 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 8 | The Shadow Catcher | 2007 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
| 9 | Properties of Thirst | 2022 | Marianne Wiggins | Buy |
Marianne Wiggins’s standalone novels span over four decades and show a writer drawn to American history, landscape, and the inner lives of people caught in large-scale events. Her debut, Went South (1980), established her interest in displaced characters, while John Dollar (1989) reimagined the castaway story with a group of colonial-era girls stranded on an island.
Her later work became more ambitious in scope. Evidence of Things Unseen (2003) traces the life of a glassblower from the trenches of World War I through the dawn of the nuclear age in Tennessee. The Shadow Catcher (2007) blurs the line between fiction and biography in its portrait of photographer Edward Curtis. Her final novel, Properties of Thirst (2022), published after a serious car accident delayed her work for years, deals with the California water wars and Japanese American internment during World War II.