Reading order
The Herland Trilogy reading order
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- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1911–1916
- Published
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Science fiction
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1911–1916Completed
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote all three utopian novels for The Forerunner, the monthly magazine she wrote and published single-handedly from 1909 to 1916.
- In Herland (1915), three American men stumble on a country of women who have lived without men for two thousand years; With Her in Ourland (1916) takes one of those women out into a world at war.
- Herland only appeared as a book in 1979 and is the one to start with; Moving the Mountain (1911) is an earlier, separate utopia set in a future America.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 468 pages, about 9 hours. At 45 min a day that is 11 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 9, 2026.
- Stage 19 h11 daysby November 9, 2026
- 1. Moving the Mountain
- 2. Herland
- 3. With Her in Ourland
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which The Herland Trilogy book is the longest?
“Moving the Mountain” is the longest at 166 pages; the shortest is “With Her in Ourland” with 150 pages.