diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index a02d652c..3c549e06 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module github.com/junegunn/fzf
 
 require (
-	github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.7-0.20240703190418-87029d931815
+	github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.8
 	github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.7.4
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20
 	github.com/mattn/go-shellwords v1.0.12
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 77e1e891..48f60497 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.7-0.20240703190418-87029d931815 h1:4PRbYm9OMgH0bcdZZqMXA/AoOvpGy4l0H6g9Au/kgGA=
-github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.7-0.20240703190418-87029d931815/go.mod h1:rV19+IF9Y2TYQNy4MqEk5M/spNHjKsA0i71yrsv2p4E=
+github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.8 h1:uaoH6cAKSk73aK7aKXqs0+bL+J3Txzd3NGH8tRXgHko=
+github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk v1.0.8/go.mod h1:yGy1zbxog41ZVMcKA/i8ojXLFsuayX5VvwhQVoj9PBI=
 github.com/gdamore/encoding v1.0.0 h1:+7OoQ1Bc6eTm5niUzBa0Ctsh6JbMW6Ra+YNuAtDBdko=
 github.com/gdamore/encoding v1.0.0/go.mod h1:alR0ol34c49FCSBLjhosxzcPHQbf2trDkoo5dl+VrEg=
 github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.7.4 h1:sg6/UnTM9jGpZU+oFYAsDahfchWAFW8Xx2yFinNSAYU=
diff --git a/src/reader.go b/src/reader.go
index b9368f07..a4049c4e 100644
--- a/src/reader.go
+++ b/src/reader.go
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ func (r *Reader) readFiles(root string, opts walkerOpts, ignores []string) bool
 		Follow: opts.follow,
 		// Use forward slashes when running a Windows binary under WSL or MSYS
 		ToSlash: fastwalk.DefaultToSlash(),
+		Sort:    fastwalk.SortFilesFirst,
 	}
 	fn := func(path string, de os.DirEntry, err error) error {
 		if err != nil {