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Thomas King Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Thomas King in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 79 books / 8 series

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.

Books by Thomas King in Publication Order

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

Complete Thomas King Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Non-Fiction Reading Order 2 books / 2003-2012
01 The Truth About Stories 2003 Buy
02 The Inconvenient Indian 2012 Buy
01 Insurrection 2020 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 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
06 Sufferance 2021 Buy
07 Aliens on the Moon 2025 Buy
Graphic Reading Order 1 book / 2021
01 Borders(With: Natasha Donovan) 2021 Buy
Collections Reading Order 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
DreadfulWater Reading Order 8 books / 2002-2024
01 DreadfulWater 2002 Buy
02 The Red Power Murders 2017 Buy
03 Cold Skies 2018 Buy
04 A Matter of Malice 2019 Buy
05 Obsidian 2020 Buy
06 Deep House 2022 Buy
07 Double Eagle 2023 Buy
08 Black Ice 2024 Buy
Picture Reading Order 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
05 Coyote Tales 2017 Buy
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

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Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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