W P Kinsella Books In Order

Novels

  1. Shoeless Joe (1982)
  2. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986)
  3. Box Socials (1991)
  4. The Winter Helen Dropped By (1995)
  5. Magic Time (1998)
  6. Butterfly Winter (2011)
  7. If Wishes Were Horses (2014)

Collections

  1. Dance Me Outside (1977)
  2. Scars (1978)
  3. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa (1980)
  4. Born Indian (1981)
  5. The Thrill of the Grass (1984)
  6. The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories (1985)
  7. The Alligator Report (1986)
  8. The Fencepost Chronicles (1986)
  9. The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt (1988)
  10. Red Wolf Red Wolf (1990)
  11. Baseball and the Game of Life (1990)
  12. The Moccasin Telegraph (1993)
  13. Brother Frank’s Gospel Hour (1994)
  14. Go the Distance (1995)
  15. The Secret of the Northern Lights (1998)
  16. Japanese Baseball and Other Stories (2000)
  17. The Dixon Cornbelt League (2004)
  18. The Essential W. P. Kinsella (2015)
  19. Baseball Stories (2015)
  20. Russian Dolls (2016)

Anthologies edited

  1. Baseball Fantastic (2001)

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W P Kinsella Books Overview

Shoeless Joe

‘Wild…
Romantic…
Unconventional…
A triumph of hope.’

THE BOSTON GLOBE

The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: ‘If you build it, he will come.’ ‘He’ is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray’s hero. ‘It’ is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, Shoeless Joe is about baseball. But it’s also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive…
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

Bearing W.P. Kinsella’s trademark combination of ‘sweet natured prose and a richly imagined world’ Philadelphia Inquirer, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more than two thousand innings, and Gideon Clark struggles to set the record straight on this infamous game that no one else believes ever happened.

Box Socials

Here’s the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock, a small town greaser whose claim to fame was hitting a baseball clean across the Pembina River, almost got a tryout with the genuine St. Louis Cardinals but instead ended up batting against Bob Feller of Cleveland Indian Fame in Renfrew Park, Edmonton, Alberta.

Magic Time

Magic Time,’ available for the first time in the U.S., is the story of Mike Houle, a college all star whose baseball career is on the skids until his agent offers him a second chance in the Iowa Cornbelt League. Things turn around for Mike in the green fields of Grand Mound, Iowa only there seems to be more to this odd little town and its extraordinary baseball team than meets the eye. The mystery begins when Mike suspects that when the good citizens of Grand Mound lure young men into their small town, it’s not just baseball on their minds…
Magic Time‘ is vintage Kinsella. It is a novel of hope and promise and baseball that becomes humorous, enchanting fiction.

Red Wolf Red Wolf

The first appearance in the U.S. for this collection of 13 remarkable stories by the author of Shoeless Joe, now the acclaimed film Field of Dreams. Kinsella’s stories include ‘Evangeline’s Mother,’ ‘Elvis Bound,’ ‘Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck,’ and ten others.

Baseball and the Game of Life

15 fine stories by WP Kinsella, Robert Coover, Jay Neugeboren, William Stafford, Henry Roth, David Nemec and others on the human condition near the baseball diamond. Printed letterpress in sepia ink on 80 lb. Mohawk Vellum. First rate baseball literature bibliography.

Go the Distance

Pictorial soft cover, 179 pages, new book from 1995, text in new condition, cover has minor shelf wear. Southern Methodist University press, 1995

The Secret of the Northern Lights

The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in 1977 with Dance Me Outside.

Japanese Baseball and Other Stories

Kinsella weaves his characters into the thrill of the game, be it in Japan, Central America, Canada or the U.S., with a variety of comic, tragic, and mystical results. This collection captures the dazzling wit, compelling insight, and obsession with baseball that have made Kinsella more popular than a ballpark frank.

The Dixon Cornbelt League

Shortstops who run with the wolves, painted eggs that reveal deeply disturbing meanings, long dead Hall of Famers who miraculously return to the game, an Iowa minor league town with a secret conspiracy: these are the elements from which W. P. Kinsella weaves nine fabulous stories about the magical world of baseball. From the dugouts, clubhouses, bedrooms, and barrooms to the interior worlds of hope and despair, these eerie stories present the absurdities of human relationships and reveal the writer’s special genius for touching the heart.

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