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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction 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 Non-Fiction series? Start with "Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era" (1991) and follow publication order through all 31 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era
1991
Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
1994
A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
1997
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
2001
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
2001
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
2001
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
2003
Motion Studies: time, space and Eadweard Muybridge
2003
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
2004
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
2005
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
2007
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
2008
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
2009
The Faraway Nearby
2013
Men Explain Things To Me
2014
The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
2014
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
2017
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
2017
Call Them by Their True Names
2018
Cinderella Liberator (With: Arthur Rackham)
2019
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
2019
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
2020
Orwell's Roses
2021
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World... (By: David Graeber)
2024
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
2025
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
2011
Change Everything Now
2012
Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions
2015
Tales of Two Americas
2017
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
2017
Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
2018
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