Works by Louisa May Alcott

Online versions of Louisa May Alcott's published writings

Book-Length Narratives

The Inheritance (c. 1849) [novel manuscript, first published in 1997]
Hospital Sketches (1863)
The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale (1864)
Moods (1864)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (c. 1866) [novel manuscript, first published in 1995]
Will's Wonder Book (1868)
Little Women; or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868-69)
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870)
Little Men (1871)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill (1875)
Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to “Eight Cousins” (1876)
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
Under the Lilacs (1878)
Diana and Persis (c. 1879) [novel manuscript, first published in 1978]
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to “Little Men” (1886)

Story Collections

Flower Fables (1854)
On Picket Duty, and Other Tales (1864)
Morning-Glories, and Other Stories (1868)
Proverb Stories (1868)
Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories (1869)
My Boys, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 1 (1872)
Shawl Straps, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 2 (1872)
Cupid and Chow-Chow, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 3 (1874)
Silver Pitchers: And Independence, A Centennial Love Story (1876)
My Girls, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 4 (1878)
Jimmy’s Cruise in the Pinafore, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 5 (1879)
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, vol. 6 (1882)
Proverb Stories (1882)
Spinning-Wheel Stories (1884)
Lulu’s Library, vol. 1 (1886)
Lulu's Library, vol. 2 (1887)
Lulu's Library, vol. 3 (1889)
A Garland for Girls (1889)
A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark (1889)
Comic Tragedies (1893)