Order of Thomas King Books

Thomas King is a short story writer, scriptwriter, photographer, and award-winning novelist. He is best known for his novels, including Medicine River, Green Grass, and Running Water. King has also authored numerous children's books and non-fiction works. Additionally, he wrote and starred in the popular CBC radio series, The Dead Dog Café. In 2003, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the following year, he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. Thomas has taught Native literature, history, and creative writing at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Guelph, but he is now retired and resides in Guelph, Ontario.

Thomas King became a published novelist in 1988 with the novel All My Relations. Below is a list of Thomas King's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of DreadfulWater Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
DreadfulWater	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Red Power Murders	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cold Skies	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Matter of Malice	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Obsidian	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Deep House	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Double Eagle	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black Ice	(2024)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Minerva Chronicles Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Insurrection	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Medicine River	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Green Grass, Running Water	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Truth and Bright Water	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Back of the Turtle	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Indians on Vacation	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sufferance	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Aliens on the Moon	(2025)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
One Good Story, That One	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Short History of Indians in Canada	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Borders (With: Natasha Donovan)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Coyote Sings to the Moon	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Coyote Columbus Story	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Coyote's New Suit	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Coyote Solstice Tale	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Coyote Tales	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Truth About Stories	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Inconvenient Indian	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
All My Relations	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Narrative Chance (By: Gerald Vizenor)	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Other destinies (By: Louis Owens)	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sharpest Sight (By: Louis Owens)	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dead Voices (By: Gerald Vizenor)	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Firesticks of Stories (By: Diane Glancy)	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Summer in the Spring (By: Gerald Vizenor)	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Faces in the Moon (By: Betty Louise Bell)	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Grand Avenue (By: Greg Sarris)	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bone Game (By: Louis Owens)	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Massacre at Sand Creek (By: Bruce Cutler)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Only Approved Indians (By: Jack D. Forbes)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wolfsong (By: Louis Owens)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Eye Killers (By: A. A. Carr)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (By: James Ruppert)	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nightland (By: Louis Owens)	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
On Native Ground (By: Jim Barnes)	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kiss of the Fur Queen (By: Tomson Highway)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mixedblood Messages (By: Louis Owens)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark River (By: Louis Owens)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chancers (By: Gerald Vizenor)	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Briefcase Warriors (By: E. Donald Two-Rivers)	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I Hear the Train (By: Louis Owens)	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Other Words (By: Jace Weaver)	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mask Maker (By: Diane Glancy)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Gypsy (By: Diane Glancy)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Where the Pavement Ends (By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.)	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Field of Honor (By: D.L. Birchfield)	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Silko (By: Brewster E. Fitz)	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trickster of Liberty (By: Gerald Vizenor)	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Pipe for February (By: Martin Scorsese,Charles H. Red Corn)	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Marriage of Saints (By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Muting White Noise (By: James H. Cox)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Singing Bird (By: John Milton Oskison)	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Cherokee Syllabary (By: Ellen Cushman)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Twenty Thousand Mornings (By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 (By: James W. Parins)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Native American Renaissance (By: Alan R. Velie)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories (By: Adam Fortunate Eagle)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Progressive Traditions (By: Joshua B. Nelson)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Creative Alliances (By: Molly S. McGlennen)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction (By: Susan Kalter,John Joseph Mathews)	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wil Usdi: Novella (By: Robert J. Conley,Luther Wilson)	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Imagining Sovereignty (By: David J. Carlson)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chenoo (By: Joseph Bruchac)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Red Bird, Red Power (By: Tadeusz Lewandowski)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
John Joseph Mathews (By: Michael Snyder)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Back to the Blanket (By: Kimberly G. Wieser)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Plastic Indian (By: Robert J. Conley,Evelyn L. Conley,Geary Hobson)	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Padoskoks (By: Joseph Bruchac)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Watermelon Nights (By: Greg Sarris)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Native Removal Writing (By: Sabine N. Meyer)	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
All My Relations	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Our Story	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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