Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleepwalking | 1982 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 2 | Caribou | 1985 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 3 | The Dream Book | 1986 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 4 | Hidden Pictures | 1986 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 5 | This is Your Life aka This Is My Life | 1988 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 6 | Friends for Life | 1994 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 7 | Surrender, Dorothy | 1999 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 8 | The Wife | 2003 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 9 | The Position | 2005 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 10 | The Ten-Year Nap | 2008 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 11 | The Uncoupling | 2011 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 12 | The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman | 2011 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 13 | The Interestings | 2013 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 14 | Belzhar | 2014 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
| 15 | The Female Persuasion | 2018 | Meg Wolitzer | Buy |
Meg Wolitzer’s standalone novels span from her 1982 debut Sleepwalking through The Female Persuasion in 2018. Her early works like Caribou and Hidden Pictures established her interest in family dynamics and emotional complexity. As her career progressed, books like Surrender, Dorothy and The Position explored relationships with increasing depth and wit.
Her most acclaimed novels came in the 2000s and 2010s. The Wife is a sharp look at a literary marriage and the woman behind a famous male author. The Interestings traces a group of friends from teenage years at an arts camp through the disappointments and surprises of their adult lives. The Ten-Year Nap examines women who left careers to raise children, while The Female Persuasion follows a young woman drawn into the orbit of an older feminist activist. Her YA novel Belzhar adds a speculative element to the coming-of-age story, with students at a boarding school for emotionally fragile teens discovering that a journal-writing assignment has magical properties.