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Nation Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Nation 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 Nation series? Start with "Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles)" (1991) and follow publication order through all 30 books.
The complete Nation reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles)
1991
The Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky,vanden Heuvel, Katrina)
2000
The Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi)
2001
Dreaming War (By: Gore Vidal)
2002
Unsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton)
2003
The Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman)
2003
Napoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan)
2003
Shaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill,Bruce Shapiro)
2003
A Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich)
2003
Taking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel,Robert L. Borosage)
2004
A Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell)
2004
The Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher)
2004
The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (With: Mickey Knox)
2004
Murdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross)
2004
Imperial America (By: Gore Vidal)
2004
Killed (By: David Wallis)
2004
Love, Poverty, and War (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2004
The High Times Reader (By: Ann Nocenti,Paul Krassner,Ruth Baldwin)
2004
Deserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn,Daniel Singer)
2005
Blood, Class and Empire (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2009
Genocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.)
2009
This Was Your War
1960
We Accuse
1965
The Cosmos Reader
1971
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
1971
Unknown California
1985
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
Writing Los Angeles
2002
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
2009
UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat
2015
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