James Wesley Rawles Books in Order
James Wesley Rawles has written 10 books, published between 1998 and 2020. The first book is Patriots (1998) and the newest is Survival Retreats & Relocation (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1998–2020
- Pages on record
- 3,026 in 9 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 50–76 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,026 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Survivalist fiction and preparedness manuals make up the work of James Wesley Rawles, a former US Army Intelligence officer and survival retreat consultant born in 1960. Patriots (1998) began the Coming Collapse sequence; Counter-Caliphate Chronicles is the second series. Survival, financial crisis and the breakdown of civil order are the subjects throughout. Rawles also promotes the American Redoubt, a survivalist refuge in the northwestern United States. Ten books are catalogued through 2020.
How many James Wesley Rawles books are there?
James Wesley Rawles has 10 books, released between 1998 and 2020. They include 2 series and 4 titles listed outside any series.
James Wesley Rawles Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 James Wesley Rawles 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.
- 119984002/4
- 2How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It2009 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420093362/4
- 320113822/4
- 420123022/4
- 520133032/4
- 6Tools for Survival2014 · 315 pages · confirmed 2/420143152/4
- 720143942/4
- 820153542/4
- 9Prepper Survival Guide2020 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/420202402/4
- 10Survival Retreats & Relocation2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
James Wesley Rawles 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.
Coming Collapse in order
5 books- 1. Patriots
- 2. Survivors
- 3. Founders
- 4. Expatriates
- 5. Liberators
Counter-Caliphate Chronicles in order
1 bookStandalone books
4 books4 James Wesley Rawles titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read James Wesley Rawles books in order?
You only need to read James Wesley Rawles 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 Wesley Rawles
Start with Patriots (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest James Wesley Rawles book?
Survival Retreats & Relocation (2020) is the newest James Wesley Rawles book released so far.
Is there a new James Wesley Rawles book coming?
No next James Wesley Rawles 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 Wesley Rawles at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest James Wesley Rawles title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- James Wesley Rawles books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,026 pages across the 9 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most James Wesley Rawles books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the James Wesley Rawles books are about
7 of the 10 James Wesley Rawles books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: survival is tagged on 6 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Survival 6 of 7 books
- Financial crises 4 of 7 books
- Political fiction 3 of 7 books
- Dystopias 2 of 7 books
- Regression (Civilization) 2 of 7 books
- Suspense 2 of 7 books
- Thrillers 2 of 7 books