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Diane Ackerman Books in Order

Diane Ackerman has written 27 books, published between 1976 and 2014. The first book is The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral[Poems] (1976) and the newest is The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us (2014). One more title is announced: A Feast in Every Sense (2027). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27 + 1 announced
Published
1976–2014
Pages on record
5,821 in 23 of 28 books
Reading time
97–146 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,821 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 23 of 28 titles with a page count on record.

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Diane Ackerman is an American poet, essayist and naturalist. Poetry opens the catalogue with The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral (1976), Wife of Light (1978) and Lady Faustus (1983); prose on the senses and the natural world follows in A Natural History of the Senses (1990), The Moon by Whale Light (1991) and A Natural History of Love (1994). Twenty-eight books are catalogued, at a median of 256 pages, the most recent published being The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us (2014). A Feast in Every Sense is scheduled for 2027.

How many Diane Ackerman books are there?

Diane Ackerman has 27 published books, released between 1976 and 2014. One more, A Feast in Every Sense (2027), is announced.

Diane Ackerman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 28 Diane Ackerman 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 Wife of Light by Diane Ackerman (1978)
  2. Cover of Lady Faustus by Diane Ackerman (1983)
  3. Cover of Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem by Diane Ackerman (1988)
  4. Cover of A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman (1990)
  5. Cover of The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales by Diane Ackerman (1991)
  6. Cover of Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems by Diane Ackerman (1991)
  7. Cover of A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman (1994)
  8. Cover of The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman (1995)
  9. Cover of Monk Seal Hideaway by Diane Ackerman (1995)
  10. Cover of A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis by Diane Ackerman (1997)
  11. Cover of Bats: Shadows in the Night by Diane Ackerman (1997)
  12. Cover of I Praise My Destroyer: Poems by Diane Ackerman (1998)
  13. Cover of The Book of Love by Diane Ackerman (1998)
  14. Cover of Deep Play by Diane Ackerman (1999)
  15. Cover of Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire by Diane Ackerman (2000)
  16. Cover of Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman (2001)
  17. Cover of Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir by Diane Ackerman (2002)
  18. Cover of An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman (2004)
  19. Cover of Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day by Diane Ackerman (2009)
  20. Cover of One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir by Diane Ackerman (2011)
  1. 1
    The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral[Poems]1976 · confirmed 2/4
    1976–
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  2. 2
    Wife of Light1978 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    197864
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  3. 3
    Lady Faustus1983 · 94 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198394
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  4. 4
    On Extended Wings1985 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1985307
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  5. 5
    Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem1988 · 97 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198897
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  6. 6
    A Natural History of the Senses1990 · 331 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990331
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  7. 7
    The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales1991 · 249 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991249
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  8. 8
    Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems1991 · 254 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991254
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  9. 9
    A Natural History of Love1994 · 358 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994358
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  10. 10
    The Curious Naturalist1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  11. 11
    The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds1995 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995208
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  12. 12
    Monk Seal Hideaway1995 · 36 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199536
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  13. 13
    A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis1997 · 305 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997305
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  14. 14
    Bats: Shadows in the Night1997 · 30 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199730
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  15. 15
    I Praise My Destroyer: Poems1998 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998128
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  16. 16
    The Book of Love1998 · 827 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998827
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  17. 17
    Deep Play1999 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999256
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  18. 18
    Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire2000 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000160
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  19. 19
    The Senses of Animals: Poems2000 · confirmed 2/4
    2000–
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  20. 20
    Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden2001 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001261
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  21. 21
    Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir2002 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002208
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  22. 22
    Animal Sense2003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  23. 23
    An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain2004 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004320
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  24. 24
    The Zookeeper's Wife2007 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007384
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  25. 25
    Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day2009 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009256
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  26. 26
    One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir2011 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011336
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  27. 27
    The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us2014 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014352
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  28. 28
    A Feast in Every Sense2027 · confirmed 2/4
    2027–
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Diane Ackerman 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.

Standalone books

28 books

28 Diane Ackerman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Diane Ackerman books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 28 Diane Ackerman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Diane Ackerman

Start with The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral[Poems] (1976), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Diane Ackerman book?

The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us (2014) is the newest Diane Ackerman book released so far.

Is there a new Diane Ackerman book coming?

Yes. A Feast in Every Sense (2027) is the next Diane Ackerman book announced in the catalogue. A publication year announced this far ahead moves, so it is worth rechecking: every announced title dated after 2026 sits on the upcoming book releases page.

Diane Ackerman at a glance

Still publishing
Diane Ackerman is still publishing. A Feast in Every Sense is announced for 2027.
Release pace
Diane Ackerman books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
5,821 pages across the 23 of 28 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Diane Ackerman books, 12 of 28, were published in the 1990s.

What the Diane Ackerman books are about

25 of the 28 Diane Ackerman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: poetry is tagged on 5 of 25. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.