Ivan Doig Books in Order

In 1951, eleven-year-old Donal Cameron is sent by Greyhound from his Montana ranch home to an unknown great-aunt in Wisconsin, then flees back west with her long-suffering husband, embarking on a rambling bus trip full of odd characters, trouble, and unexpected grace.

Newlyweds Morrie and Grace Morgan return to Butte in 1920 to inherit a crumbling mansion, and Morrie becomes editorial writer for a scrappy union newspaper, pitting his wit against the powerful Anaconda Copper Company while trying not to lose his marriage in the fray.

In the summer of 1960, twelve-year-old Rusty Harry helps his charming, mysterious father run the Medicine Lodge bar in Gros Ventre until a former dancer from Tom’s past arrives claiming he has a grown daughter, upending Rusty’s ideas about family and belonging.

A decade after The Whistling Season, Morrie Morgan turns up in 1919 Butte, Montana, landing jobs as a funeral crier and then a librarian before being drawn into a bruising fight between copper magnate Anaconda, outside agitators, and the union miners he befriends.

During World War II, former college football star Ben Reinking is reassigned from pilot training to write human-interest stories about his ten scattered teammates, sending him from Pacific islands to European battlefields while he wrestles with propaganda, survivor’s guilt, and a forbidden romance.

When widower Oliver Milliron hires housekeeper Rose Llewellyn and her bookish brother Morrie in 1909, their arrival upends life on a remote Montana homestead and in its one-room schoolhouse, as seen through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Paul, looking back decades later.

In 1920s Montana and New York, voice teacher Susan Duff and her former lover, ex-politician Wes Williamson, coach their Black chauffeur Monty Rathbun toward a concert career, challenging local racism, their own regrets, and the high personal cost of chasing art and freedom.

Environmental reporter Mitch Rozier and caterer Lexa McCaskill travel from Seattle back to Montana when Mitch’s scheming, ailing father calls them home, forcing all three to confront old grievances, aging, and the uneasy collision between Western landscapes and modern life.

The Duff family leaves their struggling farm to work on Montana’s massive Fort Peck Dam during the 1930s, getting swept into New Deal boom times, dangerous construction work, and a suspicious family tragedy that slowly unravels amid shifting loyalties and secrets.

Prompted by a box of wartime letters his mother wrote before her early death, Doig reconstructs his family’s moves between Montana ranches and an Arizona defense-workers’ camp, offering a tender portrait of a tough, witty woman and the postwar West she inhabited.

On Montana’s 1989 centennial, an aging Jick McCaskill drives a Winnebago for his photographer daughter Mariah and her reporter ex-husband as they crisscross the state, gathering stories, revisiting old haunts, and facing long-unspoken tensions in their own family history.

Beginning in 1889, two young Scots, Angus McCaskill and Rob Barclay, stake their future on sheep ranching in Montana’s so-called Scottish Heaven, confronting blizzards, droughts, influenza, and a complicated love triangle as friendship, family duty, and ambition pull them in different directions.

Set in the summer of 1939, the novel follows fourteen-year-old Jick McCaskill through a season of sheep counts, family quarrels, and wildfire in Montana’s Two Medicine country as he begins to understand both his parents’ past and the hard choices ahead.

This photographic companion to This House of Sky pairs Duncan Kelso’s black-and-white images of Montana ranch country with short passages by Doig, giving readers a visual tour of the small towns, open range, and weathered buildings that underlie his childhood memoir.

Based on an 1853 escape from Russian Alaska, four Scandinavian indentured laborers steal a native canoe and attempt a perilous 1,200-mile voyage down the stormy Pacific coast toward Oregon, battling brutal weather, scarce supplies, and their own clashing temperaments.

Drawing on the nineteenth-century diaries of coastal settler James G. Swan, Doig keeps his own winter journal in the Pacific Northwest, weaving past and present into a reflective portrait of storms, shorelines, Native communities, and the restless urge to record a place.

In this memoir, Doig looks back on his hardscrabble Montana boyhood after his mother’s death, tracing life with his sheepherder father and indomitable grandmother along the Rocky Mountain Front and exploring how landscape, memory, and family shaped his imagination.

An edited volume that surveys visions of the perfect society in United States history, collecting essays and documents on utopian thinkers and experimental communities while weighing how their hopes measured up against the realities of American culture and politics.

This early nonfiction book, co-written with Carol Doig, serves as a practical guide to how the news business works, explaining how stories are gathered, edited, and presented so readers can recognize bias, weigh sources, and become more skeptical, informed consumers.