James Redfield Books in Order
James Redfield has written 9 books, published between 1993 and 2011. The first book is The Celestine Prophecy (1993) and the newest is Holding the Vision: An Experiential Guide (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1993–2011
- Total pages
- 2,387 across 9 books
- Reading time
- 40–60 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,387 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
The Celestine Prophecy (1993) is what James Redfield is known for: an adventure parable about a found manuscript and spiritual awakening. Redfield, born in 1950, is an American writer, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer. Nine catalogued books run to 2011, among them The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (1996), The Celestine Vision (1997), The Secret of Shambhala (1999) and The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (2011), plus an account of the film adaptation. New Age spirituality, travel and millennialism run through them, at a median of 256 pages.
How many James Redfield books are there?
James Redfield has 9 books, released between 1993 and 2011. 4 of them belong to the Celestine Prophecy series.
James Redfield Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 James Redfield 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.
- 119932882/4
- 219962562/4
- 3The Celestine Vision: Living the New Spiritual Awareness1997 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/419972882/4
- 4The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh InsightCelestine Prophecy #31999 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419992562/4
- 5Exploring the Zone2000 · 205 pages · confirmed 2/420002052/4
- 6God and the Evolving Universe2001 · 321 pages · confirmed 2/420013212/4
- 7Celestine Prophecy: The Making of the Movie2005 · 163 pages · confirmed 2/420051632/4
- 820112262/4
- 9Holding the Vision: An Experiential Guide2011 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420113842/4
James Redfield series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
James Redfield 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
5 books5 James Redfield titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read James Redfield books in order?
You only need to read James Redfield books in order within the Celestine Prophecy series, which holds 4 of the 9 James Redfield books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with James Redfield
Start with The Celestine Prophecy (1993), the first Celestine Prophecy book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest James Redfield book?
Holding the Vision: An Experiential Guide (2011) is the newest James Redfield book released so far.
Is there a new James Redfield book coming?
No next James Redfield 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 Redfield at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest James Redfield title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- James Redfield books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,387 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most James Redfield books, 4 of 9, were published in the 1990s.
What the James Redfield books are about
All 9 James Redfield books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: spiritual life is tagged on 5 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Spiritual life 5 of 9 books
- Millennialism 3 of 9 books
- Adventure stories 2 of 9 books
- Collectors and collecting 2 of 9 books
- Manuscripts 2 of 9 books
- Millennialism in literature 2 of 9 books
- New Age 2 of 9 books
- Parables 2 of 9 books
- Spiritual life in literature 2 of 9 books
- Travel 2 of 9 books
- Vie spirituelle 2 of 9 books