Bruce Holsinger Books in Order
Bruce Holsinger has written 10 books, published between 2001 and 2025. The first book is Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001) and the newest is Culpability (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2001–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,670 in 5 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,670 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Bruce Holsinger is an American novelist and literary scholar who teaches as a professor of English at the University of Virginia. The 10 catalogued books run from Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001) to Culpability (2025). The Marxist Premodern (2004), The Premodern Condition (2005) and Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror (2007) come first, followed by A Burnable Book (2014), The Invention of Fire (2015), The Gifted School (2019), The Displacements (2022) and On Parchment (2023). John Gower is the listed series, and subject headings name medievalism, music, the human body and criticism.
How many Bruce Holsinger books are there?
Bruce Holsinger has 10 books, released between 2001 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the John Gower series.
Bruce Holsinger Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Bruce Holsinger 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.
- 1Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval CultureFigurae: Reading Medieval Culture #132001 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/420014961/4
- 2The Marxist Premodern2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 3The Premodern Condition2005 · 276 pages · confirmed 1/420052761/4
- 4Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror2007 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/42007841/4
- 520144641/4
- 62015–1/4
- 7The Gifted School2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 8The Displacements2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 9On Parchment2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 10Culpability2025 · 350 pages · confirmed 1/420253501/4
Bruce Holsinger 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.
John Gower in order
2 booksFigurae: Reading Medieval Culture in order
1 bookStandalone books
7 books7 Bruce Holsinger titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Bruce Holsinger books in order?
You only need to read Bruce Holsinger books in order within the John Gower series, which holds 2 of the 10 Bruce Holsinger books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Bruce Holsinger
Start with Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Bruce Holsinger book?
Culpability (2025) is the newest Bruce Holsinger book released so far.
Is there a new Bruce Holsinger book coming?
No next Bruce Holsinger book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Bruce Holsinger at a glance
- Still publishing
- Bruce Holsinger published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Bruce Holsinger books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,670 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 350 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Bruce Holsinger books, 4 of 10, were published in the 2000s.
What the Bruce Holsinger books are about
7 of the 10 Bruce Holsinger 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 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 3 of 7 books