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Home / Authors / Thomas King Thomas King Canadian author Thomas King is best known for his acclaimed *Green Grass, Running Water* and the *DreadfulWater* mystery series. A recipient of the Order of Canada, his works have sold over a million copies. This page provides Thomas King’s books in order, including both chronological and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1988 All My Relations POoAILaCSB · 1 Buy ↗ 1989 Narrative Chance(By: Gerald Vizenor) POoAILaCSB · 2 Buy ↗ 1990 Medicine River POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1992 Other destinies(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 3 Buy ↗ 1992 The Sharpest Sight(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 4 Buy ↗ 1992 Dead Voices(By: Gerald Vizenor) POoAILaCSB · 5 Buy ↗ 1993 One Good Story, That One POoC · 1 Buy ↗ 1993 Green Grass, Running Water POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1993 Firesticks of Stories(By: Diane Glancy) POoAILaCSB · 6 Buy ↗ 1993 Summer in the Spring(By: Gerald Vizenor) POoAILaCSB · 7 Buy ↗ 1994 Faces in the Moon(By: Betty Louise Bell) POoAILaCSB · 8 Buy ↗ 1994 Grand Avenue(By: Greg Sarris) POoAILaCSB · 9 Buy ↗ 1994 Bone Game(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 10 Buy ↗ 1995 The Massacre at Sand Creek(By: Bruce Cutler) POoAILaCSB · 11 Buy ↗ 1995 Only Approved Indians(By: Jack D. Forbes) POoAILaCSB · 12 Buy ↗ 1995 Wolfsong(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 13 Buy ↗ 1995 Eye Killers(By: A. A. Carr) POoAILaCSB · 14 Buy ↗ 1995 Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction(By: James Ruppert) POoAILaCSB · 15 Buy ↗ 1996 Nightland(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 16 Buy ↗ 1997 On Native Ground(By: Jim Barnes) POoAILaCSB · 17 Buy ↗ 1998 Kiss of the Fur Queen(By: Tomson Highway) POoAILaCSB · 18 Buy ↗ 1998 Mixedblood Messages(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 19 Buy ↗ 1999 Coyote Sings to the Moon POoPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1999 Truth and Bright Water POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 1999 Dark River(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 20 Buy ↗ 2000 Chancers(By: Gerald Vizenor) POoAILaCSB · 21 Buy ↗ 2001 Briefcase Warriors(By: E. Donald Two-Rivers) POoAILaCSB · 22 Buy ↗ 2001 I Hear the Train(By: Louis Owens) POoAILaCSB · 23 Buy ↗ 2001 Other Words(By: Jace Weaver) POoAILaCSB · 24 Buy ↗ 2002 DreadfulWater POoDB · 1 Buy ↗ 2002 A Coyote Columbus Story POoPB · 2 Buy ↗ 2002 The Mask Maker(By: Diane Glancy) POoAILaCSB · 25 Buy ↗ 2002 American Gypsy(By: Diane Glancy) POoAILaCSB · 26 Buy ↗ 2003 The Truth About Stories POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 2003 Where the Pavement Ends(By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.) POoAILaCSB · 27 Buy ↗ 2004 Coyote's New Suit POoPB · 3 Buy ↗ 2004 Field of Honor(By: D.L. Birchfield) POoAILaCSB · 28 Buy ↗ 2004 Silko(By: Brewster E. Fitz) POoAILaCSB · 29 Buy ↗ 2005 A Short History of Indians in Canada POoC · 2 Buy ↗ 2005 The Trickster of Liberty(By: Gerald Vizenor) POoAILaCSB · 30 Buy ↗ 2005 A Pipe for February(By: Martin Scorsese,Charles H. Red Corn) POoAILaCSB · 31 Buy ↗ 2006 The Marriage of Saints(By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew) POoAILaCSB · 32 Buy ↗ 2006 Muting White Noise(By: James H. Cox) POoAILaCSB · 33 Buy ↗ 2007 The Singing Bird(By: John Milton Oskison) POoAILaCSB · 34 Buy ↗ 2009 A Coyote Solstice Tale POoPB · 4 Buy ↗ 2011 The Cherokee Syllabary(By: Ellen Cushman) POoAILaCSB · 35 Buy ↗ 2012 The Inconvenient Indian POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 2012 Twenty Thousand Mornings(By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews) POoAILaCSB · 36 Buy ↗ 2013 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820�1906(By: James W. Parins) POoAILaCSB · 37 Buy ↗ 2013 The Native American Renaissance(By: Alan R. Velie) POoAILaCSB · 38 Buy ↗ 2014 The Back of the Turtle POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 2014 Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories(By: Adam Fortunate Eagle) POoAILaCSB · 39 Buy ↗ 2014 Progressive Traditions(By: Joshua B. Nelson) POoAILaCSB · 40 Buy ↗ 2014 Creative Alliances(By: Molly S. McGlennen) POoAILaCSB · 41 Buy ↗ 2015 Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction(By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews) POoAILaCSB · 42 Buy ↗ 2015 Wil Usdi: Novella(By: Robert J. Conley,Luther Wilson) POoAILaCSB · 43 Buy ↗ 2016 Imagining Sovereignty(By: David J. Carlson) POoAILaCSB · 44 Buy ↗ 2016 Chenoo(By: Joseph Bruchac) POoAILaCSB · 45 Buy ↗ 2016 Red Bird, Red Power(By: Tadeusz Lewandowski) POoAILaCSB · 46 Buy ↗ 2017 The Red Power Murders POoDB · 2 Buy ↗ 2017 Coyote Tales POoPB · 5 Buy ↗ 2017 John Joseph Mathews(By: Michael Snyder) POoAILaCSB · 47 Buy ↗ 2017 Back to the Blanket(By: Kimberly G. Wieser) POoAILaCSB · 48 Buy ↗ 2018 Cold Skies POoDB · 3 Buy ↗ 2018 Plastic Indian(By: Robert J. Conley,Evelyn L. Conley,Geary Hobson) POoAILaCSB · 49 Buy ↗ 2019 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin POoC · 3 Buy ↗ 2019 A Matter of Malice POoDB · 4 Buy ↗ 2020 Insurrection POoMCB · 1 Buy ↗ 2020 Indians on Vacation POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 2020 Obsidian POoDB · 5 Buy ↗ 2021 Borders(With: Natasha Donovan) POoGN · 1 Buy ↗ 2021 Sufferance POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 2021 Padoskoks(By: Joseph Bruchac) POoAILaCSB · 50 Buy ↗ 2021 Watermelon Nights(By: Greg Sarris) POoAILaCSB · 51 Buy ↗ 2022 Deep House POoDB · 6 Buy ↗ 2022 Native Removal Writing(By: Sabine N. Meyer) POoAILaCSB · 52 Buy ↗ 2023 Double Eagle POoDB · 7 Buy ↗ 2024 Black Ice POoDB · 8 Buy ↗ 2025 Aliens on the Moon POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 2 books · 2003–2012
01 The Truth About Stories 2003 Buy ↗ 02 The Inconvenient Indian 2012 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Minerva Chronicles Books 1 book · 2020
Publication Order of Standalone Novels 7 books · 1990–2025
01 Medicine River 1990 Buy ↗ 02 Green Grass, Running Water 1993 Buy ↗ 03 Truth and Bright Water 1999 Buy ↗ 04 The Back of the Turtle 2014 Buy ↗ 05 Indians on Vacation 2020 Buy ↗ 07 Aliens on the Moon 2025 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Graphic Novels 1 book · 2021
01 Borders(With: Natasha Donovan) 2021 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Collections 3 books · 1993–2019
01 One Good Story, That One 1993 Buy ↗ 02 A Short History of Indians in Canada 2005 Buy ↗ 03 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin 2019 Buy ↗ Publication Order of DreadfulWater Books 8 books · 2002–2024
02 The Red Power Murders 2017 Buy ↗ 04 A Matter of Malice 2019 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Picture Books 5 books · 1999–2017
01 Coyote Sings to the Moon 1999 Buy ↗ 02 A Coyote Columbus Story 2002 Buy ↗ 03 Coyote's New Suit 2004 Buy ↗ 04 A Coyote Solstice Tale 2009 Buy ↗ Publication Order of American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books 52 books · 1988–2022
01 All My Relations 1988 Buy ↗ 02 Narrative Chance(By: Gerald Vizenor) 1989 Buy ↗ 03 Other destinies(By: Louis Owens) 1992 Buy ↗ 04 The Sharpest Sight(By: Louis Owens) 1992 Buy ↗ 05 Dead Voices(By: Gerald Vizenor) 1992 Buy ↗ 06 Firesticks of Stories(By: Diane Glancy) 1993 Buy ↗ 07 Summer in the Spring(By: Gerald Vizenor) 1993 Buy ↗ 08 Faces in the Moon(By: Betty Louise Bell) 1994 Buy ↗ 09 Grand Avenue(By: Greg Sarris) 1994 Buy ↗ 10 Bone Game(By: Louis Owens) 1994 Buy ↗ 11 The Massacre at Sand Creek(By: Bruce Cutler) 1995 Buy ↗ 12 Only Approved Indians(By: Jack D. Forbes) 1995 Buy ↗ 13 Wolfsong(By: Louis Owens) 1995 Buy ↗ 14 Eye Killers(By: A. A. Carr) 1995 Buy ↗ 15 Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction(By: James Ruppert) 1995 Buy ↗ 16 Nightland(By: Louis Owens) 1996 Buy ↗ 17 On Native Ground(By: Jim Barnes) 1997 Buy ↗ 18 Kiss of the Fur Queen(By: Tomson Highway) 1998 Buy ↗ 19 Mixedblood Messages(By: Louis Owens) 1998 Buy ↗ 20 Dark River(By: Louis Owens) 1999 Buy ↗ 21 Chancers(By: Gerald Vizenor) 2000 Buy ↗ 22 Briefcase Warriors(By: E. Donald Two-Rivers) 2001 Buy ↗ 23 I Hear the Train(By: Louis Owens) 2001 Buy ↗ 24 Other Words(By: Jace Weaver) 2001 Buy ↗ 25 The Mask Maker(By: Diane Glancy) 2002 Buy ↗ 26 American Gypsy(By: Diane Glancy) 2002 Buy ↗ 27 Where the Pavement Ends(By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.) 2003 Buy ↗ 28 Field of Honor(By: D.L. Birchfield) 2004 Buy ↗ 29 Silko(By: Brewster E. Fitz) 2004 Buy ↗ 30 The Trickster of Liberty(By: Gerald Vizenor) 2005 Buy ↗ 31 A Pipe for February(By: Martin Scorsese,Charles H. Red Corn) 2005 Buy ↗ 32 The Marriage of Saints(By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew) 2006 Buy ↗ 33 Muting White Noise(By: James H. Cox) 2006 Buy ↗ 34 The Singing Bird(By: John Milton Oskison) 2007 Buy ↗ 35 The Cherokee Syllabary(By: Ellen Cushman) 2011 Buy ↗ 36 Twenty Thousand Mornings(By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews) 2012 Buy ↗ 37 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820�1906(By: James W. Parins) 2013 Buy ↗ 38 The Native American Renaissance(By: Alan R. Velie) 2013 Buy ↗ 39 Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories(By: Adam Fortunate Eagle) 2014 Buy ↗ 40 Progressive Traditions(By: Joshua B. Nelson) 2014 Buy ↗ 41 Creative Alliances(By: Molly S. McGlennen) 2014 Buy ↗ 42 Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction(By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews) 2015 Buy ↗ 43 Wil Usdi: Novella(By: Robert J. Conley,Luther Wilson) 2015 Buy ↗ 44 Imagining Sovereignty(By: David J. Carlson) 2016 Buy ↗ 45 Chenoo(By: Joseph Bruchac) 2016 Buy ↗ 46 Red Bird, Red Power(By: Tadeusz Lewandowski) 2016 Buy ↗ 47 John Joseph Mathews(By: Michael Snyder) 2017 Buy ↗ 48 Back to the Blanket(By: Kimberly G. Wieser) 2017 Buy ↗ 49 Plastic Indian(By: Robert J. Conley,Evelyn L. Conley,Geary Hobson) 2018 Buy ↗ 50 Padoskoks(By: Joseph Bruchac) 2021 Buy ↗ 51 Watermelon Nights(By: Greg Sarris) 2021 Buy ↗ 52 Native Removal Writing(By: Sabine N. Meyer) 2022 Buy ↗