Michael Blake Books in Order
Michael Blake has written 9 books, published between 1988 and 2014. The first book is Dances With Wolves (1988) and the newest is Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1988–2014
- Pages on record
- 1,298 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 22–32 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,298 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Michael Lennox Blake (5 July 1945 to 2 May 2015) was an American writer whose novel Dances With Wolves (1988) was adapted for film, earning Blake an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The catalogue tags the fiction with the American West, the Comanche, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the United States Army cavalry. Airman Mortensen (1991), Marching to Valhalla (1996), The Holy Road (2001) and Indian Yell (2006) appear among the titles.
How many Michael Blake books are there?
Michael Blake has 9 books, released between 1988 and 2014. 2 of them belong to the Dances With Wolves series.
Michael Blake Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Michael Blake 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.
- 119883131/4
- 2Airman Mortensen1991 · confirmed 1/41991–1/4
- 3Marching to Valhalla1996 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419963041/4
- 420013681/4
- 5Like a Running Dog, Vol. 12002 · 107 pages · confirmed 1/420021071/4
- 6Indian Yell2006 · 170 pages · confirmed 1/420061701/4
- 7Twelve2009 · 36 pages · confirmed 1/42009361/4
- 8Into the Stars2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 92014–1/4
Michael Blake 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.
Dances With Wolves in order
2 booksDebating Ethics in order
1 bookStandalone books
6 books6 Michael Blake titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Blake books in order?
You only need to read Michael Blake books in order within the Dances With Wolves series, which holds 2 of the 9 Michael Blake books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Michael Blake
Start with Dances With Wolves (1988), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Blake book?
Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (2014) is the newest Michael Blake book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Blake book coming?
No next Michael Blake book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Michael Blake at a glance
- Died
- Michael Blake died in 2015, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Michael Blake on record dates from 2014.
- Release pace
- Michael Blake books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,298 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 237 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Blake books, 4 of 9, were published in the 2000s.
What the Michael Blake books are about
6 of the 9 Michael Blake books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical fiction is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Historical fiction 2 of 6 books
- Indians of North America 2 of 6 books