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Guy Vanderhaeghe Books in Order

Guy Vanderhaeghe has written 12 books, published between 1982 and 2021. The first book is Man Descending: Selected Stories (1982) and the newest is August Into Winter (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1982–2021
Pages on record
2,879 in 11 of 12 books
Reading time
48–72 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,879 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Guy Vanderhaeghe, born April 5, 1951, is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. A Western trilogy set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West is the best known work: The Englishman's Boy (1996), The Last Crossing (2002) and A Good Man (2011). Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards, for Man Descending (1982), The Englishman's Boy and Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015). The 12 catalogued books run to August Into Winter (2021) and include My Present Age, Homesick and the play I Had A Job I Liked. Once.

How many Guy Vanderhaeghe books are there?

Guy Vanderhaeghe has 12 books, released between 1982 and 2021. 3 of them belong to the Frontier series.

Guy Vanderhaeghe Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Guy Vanderhaeghe 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 Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe (1989)
  2. Cover of I Had A Job I Liked. Once: A Play by Guy Vanderhaeghe (1992)
  3. Cover of Things As They Are? by Guy Vanderhaeghe (1992)
  4. Cover of Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe, book 1 of the Chap series (1996)
  5. Cover of The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe, book 1 of the Frontier series (1996)
  6. Cover of The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe, book 2 of the Frontier series (2002)
  7. Cover of A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe, book 3 of the Frontier series (2011)
  8. Cover of Daddy Lenin and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2015)
  1. 1
    Man Descending: Selected Stories1982 · 230 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982230
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  2. 3
    My Present Age1984 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984256
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  3. 4
    Homesick1989 · 316 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989316
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  4. 5
    I Had A Job I Liked. Once: A Play1992 · 89 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199289
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  5. 6
    Things As They Are?1992 · 249 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992249
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  6. 7
    Dancock's DanceChap #11996 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996128
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  7. 8
    The Englishman's BoyFrontier #11996 · 333 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996333
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  8. 9
    The Last CrossingFrontier #22002 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002480
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  9. 10
    A Good ManFrontier #32011 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011464
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  10. 12
    August Into Winter2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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Guy Vanderhaeghe 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.

Frontier in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Englishman's Boy
  2. 2. The Last Crossing
  3. 3. A Good Man

Chap in order

1 book
  1. 1. Dancock's Dance

Standalone books

8 books

8 Guy Vanderhaeghe titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Guy Vanderhaeghe books in order?

You only need to read Guy Vanderhaeghe books in order within the Frontier series, which holds 3 of the 12 Guy Vanderhaeghe books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Guy Vanderhaeghe

Start with Man Descending: Selected Stories (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Guy Vanderhaeghe book?

August Into Winter (2021) is the newest Guy Vanderhaeghe book released so far.

Is there a new Guy Vanderhaeghe book coming?

No next Guy Vanderhaeghe 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 Guy Vanderhaeghe has won

Wikidata records 5 awards for Guy Vanderhaeghe. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Governor General's Award for English-language fiction2015Wonfor Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
  • Governor General's Literary Awards2015Won
  • Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1996Wonfor The Englishman's Boy
  • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize1987Won
  • Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1982Wonfor Man Descending

Guy Vanderhaeghe at a glance

Paused
No new Guy Vanderhaeghe title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Guy Vanderhaeghe books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,879 pages across the 11 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Guy Vanderhaeghe books, 4 of 12, were published in the 1990s.

What the Guy Vanderhaeghe books are about

10 of the 12 Guy Vanderhaeghe books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.