Kent Nerburn Books in Order
Kent Nerburn has written 19 books, published between 1991 and 2025. The first book is Native American Wisdom (1991) and the newest is Lone Dog Road (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1991–2025
- Pages on record
- 3,668 in 16 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 61–92 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,668 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Creative non-fiction and essays on Native American life, American culture and spirituality make up Kent Nerburn's work. Nerburn, born in Minneapolis in 1946, opened the catalogue with Native American Wisdom (1991) and has reached 19 books, the most recent Lone Dog Road (2025). The Neither Wolf Nor Dog trilogy is the best known sequence: its first book took a Minnesota Book Award in 1995, The Wolf At Twilight took a second in 2010, and The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo closes the set. Dakota philosophy, biography and the spiritual life recur across the catalogue.
How many Kent Nerburn books are there?
Kent Nerburn has 19 books, released between 1991 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Neither Wolf Nor Dog series.
Kent Nerburn Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Kent Nerburn 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.
- 1Native American Wisdom1991 · confirmed 1/41991–1/4
- 2Letters to My Son1993 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/419931891/4
- 3A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land1996 · 173 pages · confirmed 1/419961731/4
- 4Small Graces1998 · 125 pages · confirmed 1/419981251/4
- 5Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace1999 · 129 pages · confirmed 1/419991291/4
- 6The Wisdom of the Native Americans1999 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/419992161/4
- 7Calm Surrender2000 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420001441/4
- 8Road Angels2001 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420013361/4
- 920023351/4
- 10Simple Truths2005 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420051121/4
- 11Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce2005 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/420054481/4
- 1320093471/4
- 14Ordinary Sacred2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 152013–1/4
- 16Native Echoes2016 · 142 pages · confirmed 1/420161421/4
- 17Voices in the Stones2016 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420161921/4
- 18Dancing with the Gods2018 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420182721/4
- 19Lone Dog Road2025 · 396 pages · confirmed 1/420253961/4
Kent Nerburn 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.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog in order
3 booksStandalone books
16 books16 Kent Nerburn titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Kent Nerburn books in order?
You only need to read Kent Nerburn books in order within the Neither Wolf Nor Dog series, which holds 3 of the 19 Kent Nerburn books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Kent Nerburn
Start with Native American Wisdom (1991), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Kent Nerburn book?
Lone Dog Road (2025) is the newest Kent Nerburn book released so far.
Is there a new Kent Nerburn book coming?
No next Kent Nerburn book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Kent Nerburn at a glance
- Still publishing
- Kent Nerburn published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Kent Nerburn books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,668 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 190 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Kent Nerburn books, 7 of 19, were published in the 2000s.
What the Kent Nerburn books are about
17 of the 19 Kent Nerburn books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 5 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Social life and customs 5 of 17 books
- Biography 3 of 17 books
- Conduct of life 3 of 17 books
- Dakota Indians 3 of 17 books
- Dakota philosophy 3 of 17 books
- Nonfiction 3 of 17 books
- Spiritual life 3 of 17 books
- Indian philosophy 2 of 17 books
- Indians of North America 2 of 17 books
- Indians of north america, religion 2 of 17 books
- Indians of north america, west (u.s.) 2 of 17 books
- Philosophy 2 of 17 books