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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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