Jack Miles Books in Order
Jack Miles has written 11 books, published between 1995 and 2022. The first book is God: A Biography (1995) and the newest is A Friendship in Twilight (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1995–2022
- Pages on record
- 4,920 in 8 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 82–123 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,920 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
John R. Miles, born July 30, 1942, publishes as Jack Miles and has taken the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. Miles reads biblical subjects as literary protagonists rather than as transcendent deities or historical figures. God: A Biography (1995), the first book, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and has been translated into sixteen languages. Writing on religion, politics and culture has run in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Commonweal. The catalogue lists 11 titles to 2022, editorial work on the Norton Anthology of World Religions included.
How many Jack Miles books are there?
Jack Miles has 11 books, released between 1995 and 2022. 3 of them belong to the God in Three Classic Scriptures series.
Jack Miles Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Jack Miles 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.
- 119954641/4
- 2Christ: A Crisis in the Life of GodGod in Three Classic Scriptures #22001 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420013681/4
- 32002–1/4
- 420158481/4
- 520158161/4
- 620157521/4
- 720158001/4
- 820157201/4
- 92018–1/4
- 10Religion as We Know It2019 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/420191521/4
- 11A Friendship in Twilight2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
Jack Miles 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.
Norton Anthology of World Religions
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
God in Three Classic Scriptures in order
3 booksEthikon in Comparative Ethics in order
1 bookStandalone books
2 books2 Jack Miles titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jack Miles books in order?
You only need to read Jack Miles books in order within the God in Three Classic Scriptures series, which holds 3 of the 11 Jack Miles books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Jack Miles
Start with God: A Biography (1995), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jack Miles book?
A Friendship in Twilight (2022) is the newest Jack Miles book released so far.
Is there a new Jack Miles book coming?
No next Jack Miles book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jack Miles at a glance
- Paused
- No new Jack Miles title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Jack Miles books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 4,920 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 736 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jack Miles books, 7 of 11, were published in the 2010s.
What the Jack Miles books are about
8 of the 11 Jack Miles books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: christianity is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Christianity 3 of 8 books
- Bible 2 of 8 books
- Bible as literature 2 of 8 books
- Biblical teaching 2 of 8 books
- Criticism, interpretation 2 of 8 books
- Religion 2 of 8 books
- Taoism 2 of 8 books