James Howard Kunstler Books in Order
James Howard Kunstler has written 33 books, published between 1979 and 2025. The first book is The Wampanaki Tales (1979) and the newest is Look, I'm Gone (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 33
- Published
- 1979–2025
- Pages on record
- 5,490 in 21 of 33 books
- Reading time
- 92–137 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,490 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 21 of 33 titles with a page count on record.
James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic and public speaker whose non-fiction examines urban development, suburbanisation and energy. Born in New York City, Kunstler built a reputation on critiques of American suburban building and on forecasts of social change driven by resource limits. The catalogue holds 33 books from The Wampanaki Tales (1979) to Look, I'm Gone (2025), taking in A Clown in the Moonlight (1981), The Life of Byron Jaynes (1983), An Embarrassment of Riches (1985) and Blood Solstice (1986). World Made by Hand and Jeff Greenaway are the two series headings, and subject tags name architecture and society, economic history, environmental disasters and dystopias.
How many James Howard Kunstler books are there?
James Howard Kunstler has 33 books, released between 1979 and 2025. They include 2 series and 24 titles listed outside any series.
James Howard Kunstler Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 33 James Howard Kunstler 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.
- 1The Wampanaki Tales1979 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/419792241/4
- 2A Clown in the Moonlight1981 · 218 pages · confirmed 1/419812181/4
- 3The Life of Byron Jaynes1983 · 1 pages · confirmed 1/4198311/4
- 4An Embarrassment of Riches1985 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/419853841/4
- 5Blood Solstice1986 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/419862261/4
- 6The Halloween Ball1987 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/419873401/4
- 7The Hunt1988 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/419882241/4
- 8Thunder Island1988 · 266 pages · confirmed 1/419882661/4
- 9The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape1993 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419933041/4
- 10Johnny Appleseed1993 · confirmed 1/41993–1/4
- 11Annie Oakley: The American Legend1993 · confirmed 1/41993–1/4
- 12Davy Crockett1995 · confirmed 1/41995–1/4
- 13Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century1996 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/419963181/4
- 14The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition2001 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420012881/4
- 15The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century2003 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420033361/4
- 16Maggie Darling2003 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420033361/4
- 17Glimpses of My Friend the King2004 · 98 pages · confirmed 1/42004981/4
- 1820073171/4
- 192010–1/4
- 20Big Slide2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 2120103341/4
- 22Aladdin and the Magic Lamp2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 232012–1/4
- 24Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation2012 · 245 pages · confirmed 1/420122451/4
- 252013–1/4
- 2620143361/4
- 27The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Mooski Toffski Offski2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 2820163171/4
- 29A Safe and Happy Place2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 302018581/4
- 312018–1/4
- 32Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward2020 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420203201/4
- 33Look, I'm Gone2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
James Howard Kunstler 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.
Jeff Greenaway in order
5 booksWorld Made by Hand in order
4 booksStandalone books
24 books24 James Howard Kunstler titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read James Howard Kunstler books in order?
You only need to read James Howard Kunstler books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with James Howard Kunstler
Start with The Wampanaki Tales (1979), the earliest published title.
What is the newest James Howard Kunstler book?
Look, I'm Gone (2025) is the newest James Howard Kunstler book released so far.
Is there a new James Howard Kunstler book coming?
No next James Howard Kunstler book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
James Howard Kunstler at a glance
- Still publishing
- James Howard Kunstler published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- James Howard Kunstler books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,490 pages across the 21 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most James Howard Kunstler books, 13 of 33, were published in the 2010s.
What the James Howard Kunstler books are about
20 of the 33 James Howard Kunstler books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: civilization is tagged on 3 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Civilization 3 of 20 books
- Economic conditions 3 of 20 books
- Environmental disasters 3 of 20 books
- Architecture 2 of 20 books
- Architecture and society 2 of 20 books
- Biography 2 of 20 books
- Dystopias 2 of 20 books
- Economic history 2 of 20 books
- Environmentalism 2 of 20 books
- Social aspects 2 of 20 books
- United States 2 of 20 books