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Recommended Reading for Adults

August 12, 2018 By Pamela Smith Hill
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As a researcher and biographer of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I’ve found the work of other Wilder authors and scholars both essential and illuminating. Listed below are titles that explore different areas of her life and work, often bringing entirely new and unexpected interpretations to a wide range of Wilder topics. The list includes classic titles, as well as newer works. The list will continue to grow as Wilder scholarship deepens. Please click here if my Recommended Reading Guide for Children and Young Adults also interests you.

Recommended Little House on the Prairie Themed Reading for Adults

  • Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in chronological order)
  • Compilations/Adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s and Rose Wilder Lane’s Work
  • Books by Rose Wilder Lane (in chronological order)
  • Nonfiction about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Her Life & Work
  • Literary Fiction

Note: Each recommended reading comes with a free printable checklist you can take to your local bookstore or library and track which books you’ve read. Enjoy!

Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in chronological order)

  • The Complete Little House Box Set (9 books)
  • Little House in the Big Woods
  • Farmer Boy
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake
  • The Long Winter
  • Little Town on the Prairie
  • These Happy Golden Years
  • The First Four Years
  • On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894
  • West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915
  • Little House Treasury
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volumes 1 & 2
  • Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

(Download the printable checklist for this reading list to take to your bookstore or library.)

Compilations and Adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s and Rose Wilder Lane’s Work

  • A Little House Reader: A Collection of Writings by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • A Little House Sampler
  • A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Journeys Across America
  • Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook
  • Little House in the Ozarks: The Rediscovered Writings
  • Little House Sisters: Collected Stories from the Little House Books
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
  • Horn Book’s Laura Ingalls Wilder: Articles About and By Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams, and the Little House Books
  • The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder – Volume 1: On Wisdom & Virtues
  • Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder – Volume 2: On Life as a Pioneer Woman
  • Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder – Volume 3: As Told by her Family, Friends, & Neighbors

(Download the printable checklist for this reading list to take to your bookstore or library.)

Books by Rose Wilder Lane (in chronological order)

  • The Story of Art Smith
  • Henry Ford’s Own Story
  • Diverging Roads
  • White Shadows on the South Seas (with Frederick O’Brien)
  • The Making of Herbert Hoover
  • The Dancer of Sahmakha by Armên Ohanian, translated by Rose Wilder Lane
  • The Peaks of Shala
  • He Was a Man
  • Hill-Billy
  • Cindy: A Romance of the Ozarks
  • Let the Hurricane Roar (aka Young Pioneers)
  • Old Home Town
  • Give Me Liberty
  • Credo
  • Free Land
  • The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority
  • Woman’s Day Book of American Needlework
  • Travels with Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford
  • Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane: Forty Years of Friendship, Letters, 1921-1960
  • The Rediscovered Writings of Rose Wilder Lane, Literary Journalist

(Download the printable checklist for this reading list to take to your bookstore or library.)

Nonfiction about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Her Life & Work

Biographies:

  • American Legends: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
  • Garth Williams: American Illustrator: A Life
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
  • Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Libertarians on the Prairie

General Nonfiction:

  • The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, The Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
  • Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook
  • I Remember Laura
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People & Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Life & Books
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical, Biographical, & Teaching Studies
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet
  • Little House Country: A photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture
  • Little House on the Prairie From A to Z
  • Little Lodges on the Prairie: Freemasonry and Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook: Favorite Songs from the Little House Books
  • The Little House Guidebook
  • Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Story of the Ingalls
  • Story of the Wilders: All about Almanzo and his Family
  • The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Wilder in the West: Eliza Jane’s Story of a Lady Homesteader
  • The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
  • Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts

Literary Nonfiction

  • From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting A Literary Childhood
  • The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

(Download the printable checklist for this reading list to take to your bookstore or library.)

Literary Fiction

  • A Wilder Rose
  • Caroline: Little House, Revisited
  • The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder Box Set 
    • Book One: Missouri Homestead
    • Book Two: Children of Promise
    • Book Three: Good Neighbors
    • Book Four: Home to the Prairie
    • Book Five: The World’s Fair
    • Book Six: Mountain Miracle
    • Book Seven: The Great Debate
    • Book Eight: Land of Promise

(Download the printable checklist for this reading list to take to your bookstore or library.)

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Pamela Smith Hill is the author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life and the editor of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography. She has taught writing and literature classes at several universities, including a massive open online course on Wilder for Missouri State University. She is also the author of three Young Adult novels.
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Comments

  1. Angela says

    July 24, 2019 at 12:05 am

    Just finished “Caroline-Little House Revisited “ by Sarah Miller. Told from the mom’s perspective. Great writing for mature audiences.

    Reply
  2. John Bass says

    August 26, 2016 at 5:06 am

    Rose Lane also wrote, Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story, in 1916.

    Reply
  3. Katherine says

    July 16, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Do you have any books about the life of Caroline Ingalls

    Reply
  4. Francesca Thomas says

    February 15, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    I don’t see any mention of the Girls series – Martha, Charlotte, Caroline and Rose – Laura’s mother, grandmother, great grandmother and daughter.

    Reply
    • Brittany Lee says

      December 12, 2016 at 11:54 am

      Here’s the list.
      Martha:
      Little house in the Highland’s
      The far side of the Loch.
      Down to the Bonny Glen
      Beyond the Heather hills

      Charlotte:
      Little house by Boston bay
      On tide mill lane
      Across the pudding stone dam

      Caroline:
      Little house in brookfeild.
      Little town at the crossroads.
      Little clearing in the woods
      On top of Concord hill
      Across the rolling river
      Little city by the lake
      A little house of their own.

      Rose:
      Little house on rocky ridge
      Little farm in the Ozarks
      In the land of the big red apple
      On the other side of the Hill.
      Little town in the Ozarks.
      New dawn on rocky ridge
      On the banks of the bayou.
      Bachelor Girl.

      I’m warning you rose wilder is a bit of a… Rebel. It’s shocking. She gets herself into ALOT of trouble.

      Reply
  5. Bert W. Scott Jr. says

    November 5, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    I don’t remember if I read these books when I was in school. It would be nice to be able to read Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane. I after reading the books I then give to our local library to add to their library collection.

    Reply
  6. Kathy Stegall says

    October 1, 2015 at 1:25 am

    I love Little House, my granddaughter and I have LHOP marathons, use oil lamps bake very little electricity we have a good time. It is such a wholesome show we need more shows like them. My granddaughter is 10 years old., she loves to spend time making homemade crafts by oil lamp light. Her grandfather lived like LHOP up until he was 9 years old. He had many stories that I would tell her about. It is awesome!

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    • Rebecca says

      October 14, 2015 at 6:41 pm

      We love your Little House story! Thank you so much for sharing it with us and being a part of our community. How wonderful that you can spend quality time with your granddaughter enjoying good old-fashioned fun activities.

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  7. maria yeoman says

    September 30, 2015 at 10:45 am

    hi can u get the Laura Ingalls wilder book in united kingdom England or just in America Can you let me know please as Im still watching the programmes now yours Maria Yeoman

    Reply
    • Rebecca says

      October 14, 2015 at 6:36 pm

      Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books are available in the United Kingdom as well. They are published by Egmont UK. Here is the UK listing for Little House on the Prairie: . Enjoy!

      Reply
      • Shirley Cross says

        January 18, 2022 at 6:05 pm

        Where can I get these in the United States? I live in Alabama and watch it every night.

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        • Little House on the Prairie says

          January 20, 2022 at 1:59 pm

          Hi Shirley! You should be able to get them at your local book store or online.

          Reply
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    September 30, 2015 at 9:54 am

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    • Rebecca says

      October 14, 2015 at 6:37 pm

      Thanks for being part of our community Patricia! Muchos saludos!

      Reply

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