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American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of American Indian Literature and Critical Studies books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies series? Start with "All My Relations (By: Thomas King)" (1988) and follow publication order through all 52 books.
The complete American Indian Literature and Critical Studies reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

All My Relations (By: Thomas King)
1988

Narrative Chance (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1989

Other destinies (By: Louis Owens)
1992

The Sharpest Sight (By: Louis Owens)
1992

Dead Voices (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1992

Firesticks of Stories (By: Diane Glancy)
1993

Summer in the Spring (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1993

Faces in the Moon (By: Betty Louise Bell)
1994

Grand Avenue (By: Greg Sarris)
1994

Bone Game (By: Louis Owens)
1994

The Massacre at Sand Creek (By: Bruce Cutler)
1995

Only Approved Indians (By: Jack D. Forbes)
1995

Wolfsong (By: Louis Owens)
1995

Eye Killers (By: A. A. Carr)
1995

Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (By: James Ruppert)
1995

Nightland (By: Louis Owens)
1996

On Native Ground (By: Jim Barnes)
1997

Kiss of the Fur Queen (By: Tomson Highway)
1998

Mixedblood Messages (By: Louis Owens)
1998

Dark River (By: Louis Owens)
1999

Chancers (By: Gerald Vizenor)
2000

Briefcase Warriors (By: E. Donald Two-Rivers)
2001

I Hear the Train (By: Louis Owens)
2001

Other Words (By: Jace Weaver)
2001

The Mask Maker (By: Diane Glancy)
2002

American Gypsy (By: Diane Glancy)
2002

Where the Pavement Ends (By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.)
2003

Field of Honor (By: D.L. Birchfield)
2004

Silko (By: Brewster E. Fitz)
2004

The Trickster of Liberty (By: Gerald Vizenor)
2005

A Pipe for February (By: Martin Scorsese,Charles H. Red Corn)
2005

The Marriage of Saints (By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew)
2006

Muting White Noise (By: James H. Cox)
2006

The Singing Bird (By: John Milton Oskison)
2007

The Cherokee Syllabary (By: Ellen Cushman)
2011

Twenty Thousand Mornings (By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews)
2012

Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 (By: James W. Parins)
2013

The Native American Renaissance (By: Alan R. Velie)
2013

Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories (By: Adam Fortunate Eagle)
2014

Progressive Traditions (By: Joshua B. Nelson)
2014

Creative Alliances (By: Molly S. McGlennen)
2014

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction (By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews)
2015

Wil Usdi: Novella (With: Luther Wilson)
2015

Imagining Sovereignty (By: David J. Carlson)
2016

Chenoo (By: Joseph Bruchac)
2016

Red Bird, Red Power (By: Tadeusz Lewandowski)
2016

John Joseph Mathews (By: Michael Snyder)
2017

Back to the Blanket (By: Kimberly G. Wieser)
2017

Plastic Indian (With: Evelyn L. Conley,Geary Hobson)
2018

Padoskoks (By: Joseph Bruchac)
2021

Watermelon Nights (By: Greg Sarris)
2021

Native Removal Writing (By: Sabine N. Meyer)
2022
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