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Cherie Dimaline Books in Order

Cherie Dimaline has written 11 books, published between 2007 and 2023. The first book is Red Rooms (2007) and the newest is Into the Bright Open (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2007–2023
Pages on record
1,667 in 6 of 11 books
Reading time
28–42 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,667 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Cherie Dimaline, author of the Marrow Thieves series

Cherie Dimaline writes fiction and belongs to the Georgian Bay Métis Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario. The Marrow Thieves, a young adult novel published in 2017, is the work Dimaline is most noted for, and it takes up the continuing colonial exploitation of Indigenous peoples. Red Rooms (2007), the first novel, won the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival's Fiction Book of the Year award. The catalogue holds 11 books, among them The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy (2013), the short story collection A Gentle Habit (2015), Empire of Wild (2019), Hunting by Stars (2021) and VenCo (2023). Subjects record Indians of North America, young adult fiction, science fiction, global warming and dreams.

How many Cherie Dimaline books are there?

Cherie Dimaline has 11 books, released between 2007 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Marrow Thieves series.

Cherie Dimaline Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Cherie Dimaline 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.

  1. Cover of Red Rooms by Cherie Dimaline (2007)
  2. Cover of A Gentle Habit by Cherie Dimaline (2015)
  3. Cover of The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, book 1 of the Marrow Thieves series (2017)
  4. Cover of Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline, book 2 of the Marrow Thieves series (2021)
  5. Cover of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline (2023)
  6. Cover of Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland by Cherie Dimaline (2023)
  7. Cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline (2023)
  1. 1
    Red Rooms2007 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007192
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  2. 2
    The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy2013 · 351 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013351
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  3. 3
    A Gentle Habit2015 · 178 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015178
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  4. 4
    The Marrow ThievesMarrow Thieves #12017 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017234
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  5. 5
    Empire of Wild2019 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019312
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  6. 6
    Hunting by StarsMarrow Thieves #22021 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021400
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  7. 7
    An Anthology of Monsters2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  8. 8
    VenCo2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  9. 9
    Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Funeral Songs for Dying Girls2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  11. 11
    Into the Bright OpenRemixed Classics #82023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Cherie Dimaline 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.

Marrow Thieves in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Marrow Thieves
  2. 2. Hunting by Stars

Remixed Classics in order

1 book
  1. 8. Into the Bright Open

Standalone books

8 books

8 Cherie Dimaline titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Cherie Dimaline books in order?

You only need to read Cherie Dimaline books in order within the Marrow Thieves series, which holds 2 of the 11 Cherie Dimaline books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Cherie Dimaline

Start with Red Rooms (2007), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cherie Dimaline book?

Into the Bright Open (2023) is the newest Cherie Dimaline book released so far.

Is there a new Cherie Dimaline book coming?

No next Cherie Dimaline book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Cherie Dimaline has won

Wikidata records 3 awards and 1 nomination for Cherie Dimaline. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature2017Won
  • Kirkus Prize2017Won
  • Governor General's Literary Awards2017Won
  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2021Shortlistedfor Empire of Wild

Cherie Dimaline at a glance

Paused
No new Cherie Dimaline title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Cherie Dimaline books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,667 pages across the 6 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 273 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cherie Dimaline books, 6 of 11, were published in the 2020s.

What the Cherie Dimaline books are about

7 of the 11 Cherie Dimaline books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: indians of north america is tagged on 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.