Michael Crummey Books in Order
Michael Crummey has written 15 books, published between 1996 and 2023. The first book is Arguments with Gravity (1996) and the newest is The Adversary (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 15
- Published
- 1996–2023
- Pages on record
- 2,546 in 12 of 15 books
- Reading time
- 42–64 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,546 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 15 titles with a page count on record.
Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer of historical fiction, born in 1965, whose work draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador. Fifteen books are catalogued between 1996 and 2023, opening with Arguments with Gravity (1996) and taking in Hard Light (1998), River Thieves (2001), The Wreckage (2005), Galore (2009) and Sweetland (2014) before The Adversary (2023). Crummey won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. Fathers and sons, the Beothuk and frontier life recur as subjects.
Source: Wikidata
How many Michael Crummey books are there?
Michael Crummey has 15 books, released between 1996 and 2023.
Michael Crummey Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 15 Michael Crummey 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 November 2026.
- 1Arguments with Gravity1996 · 93 pages · confirmed 1/41996931/4
- 2Flesh & Blood1998 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/419981981/4
- 3Hard Light1998 · 125 pages · confirmed 1/419981251/4
- 4River Thieves2001 · 372 pages · confirmed 1/420013721/4
- 5Salvage2002 · 98 pages · confirmed 1/42002981/4
- 6Newfoundland2004 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/420041431/4
- 7The Wreckage2005 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420053681/4
- 8Galore2009 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420093521/4
- 9Under the Keel2013 · 101 pages · confirmed 1/420131011/4
- 10Sweetland2014 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420143361/4
- 11Little Dogs2016 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420162881/4
- 12Most of What Follows Is True2019 · 72 pages · confirmed 1/42019721/4
- 13The Innocents2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 14Passengers2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 15The Adversary2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
Michael Crummey 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
15 books15 Michael Crummey titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Crummey books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 15 Michael Crummey books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Michael Crummey
Start with Arguments with Gravity (1996), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Crummey book?
The Adversary (2023) is the newest Michael Crummey book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Crummey book coming?
No next Michael Crummey book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Michael Crummey has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Michael Crummey. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.
Michael Crummey at a glance
- Paused
- No new Michael Crummey title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Michael Crummey books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,546 pages across the 12 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 170 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Crummey books, 5 of 15, were published in the 2010s.
When Michael Crummey books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Michael Crummey titles appeared. 2000s was the most productive decade with 5 titles.
15 books total across 4 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Michael Crummey books are about
11 of the 15 Michael Crummey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: newfoundland and labrador is tagged on 3 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Newfoundland and labrador 3 of 11 books
- Poetry 3 of 11 books
- Canadian poetry 2 of 11 books