Allan W. Eckert Books in Order
Allan W. Eckert has written 39 books, published between 1963 and 2011. The first book is The Last Great Auk (1963) and the newest is The Infinite Dream (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 39
- Published
- 1963–2011
- Pages on record
- 14,723 in 36 of 39 books
- Reading time
- 245–368 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,723 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 36 of 39 titles with a page count on record.
Allan W. Eckert wrote historical novels for adults and children, natural history and plays. The Narratives of America sequence takes up the frontier, Shawnee history and the wars that came with European settlement. Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971) was a Newbery Medal runner-up, went into Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and Disney adapted it as the 1975 television film The Boy Who Talked to Badgers. Eckert, a naturalist, also wrote more than 225 episodes of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and took an Emmy Award for that work. The catalogue holds 39 titles, from The Last Great Auk in 1963 to The Infinite Dream in 2011.
How many Allan W. Eckert books are there?
Allan W. Eckert has 39 books, released between 1963 and 2011. They include 3 separate series.
Allan W. Eckert Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 39 Allan W. Eckert books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119631762/4
- 219653412/4
- 319676262/4
- 419672562/4
- 51967–2/4
- 619682562/4
- 719683162/4
- 819681562/4
- 919681772/4
- 1019697532/4
- 111970–2/4
- 1219712242/4
- 1319717202/4
- 1419732782/4
- 15The Court-Martial of Daniel BooneAllan W. Eckert Standalone Novels #91973 · 309 pages · confirmed 2/419733092/4
- 161974–2/4
- 1719765002/4
- 1819782522/4
- 1919784962/4
- 2019793602/4
- 2119802402/4
- 221981482/4
- 2319832322/4
- 2419841722/4
- 2519846882/4
- 2619855042/4
- 2719855162/4
- 2819851682/4
- 2919855002/4
- 3019866602/4
- 3119874002/4
- 3219885872/4
- 33199210682/4
- 3419958102/4
- 3519974482/4
- 3619982082/4
- 3720002562/4
- 3820093342/4
- 3920116882/4
Allan W. Eckert books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Allan W. Eckert Standalone Novels
15 books15 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Allan W. Eckert Non-Fiction
9 books9 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Winning of America/Narratives of America in order
6 booksEarth Treasures Non-Fiction
4 books4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Hawk's Hill in order
2 booksMesmerian Annals in order
2 booksAllan W. Eckert Standalone Plays
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Allan W. Eckert books in order?
You only need to read Allan W. Eckert books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Allan W. Eckert
Start with The Last Great Auk (1963), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Allan W. Eckert book?
The Infinite Dream (2011) is the newest Allan W. Eckert book released so far.
Is there a new Allan W. Eckert book coming?
No next Allan W. Eckert book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Allan W. Eckert at a glance
- Died
- Allan W. Eckert died in 2011, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Allan W. Eckert on record dates from 2011.
- Release pace
- Allan W. Eckert books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 14,723 pages across the 36 of 39 books with a recorded length, a median of 338 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Allan W. Eckert books, 12 of 39, were published in the 1980s.
What the Allan W. Eckert books are about
29 of the 39 Allan W. Eckert books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 8 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 8 of 29 books
- Indians of North America 8 of 29 books
- War 8 of 29 books
- Children's fiction 5 of 29 books
- Biography 4 of 29 books
- Kings and rulers 4 of 29 books
- Shawnee Indians 4 of 29 books
- Historical fiction 3 of 29 books
- Survival 3 of 29 books
- Birds 2 of 29 books
- Fantasy 2 of 29 books
- Frontier and pioneer life 2 of 29 books