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Michael Dorris Books in Order

Michael Dorris has written 12 books, published between 1983 and 1997. The first book is Guide to Research on North American Indians (1983) and the newest is The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (1997). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1983–1997
Total pages
2,665 across 12 books
Reading time
44–67 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,665 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Michael Dorris, an American novelist and scholar, lived from 30 January 1945 to 10 April 1997 and was the first person to chair the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College. The novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water appeared in 1987, and the memoir The Broken Cord followed in 1989. The Broken Cord recounts life with an adopted son affected by fetal alcohol syndrome; the book won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and helped move Congress to require warnings about alcohol in pregnancy. Other catalogued titles include Morning Girl, Working Men: Stories, Guests, Sees Behind Trees and Cloud Chamber.

How many Michael Dorris books are there?

Michael Dorris has 12 books, released between 1983 and 1997.

Michael Dorris Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Michael Dorris 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.

  1. Cover of Guide to Research on North American Indians by Michael Dorris (1983)
  2. Cover of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris (1987)
  3. Cover of The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris (1989)
  4. Cover of Morning Girl by Michael Dorris (1990)
  5. Cover of Working Men: Stories by Michael Dorris (1993)
  6. Cover of Paper Trail by Michael Dorris (1994)
  7. Cover of Guests by Michael Dorris (1995)
  8. Cover of Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris (1996)
  9. Cover of The Window by Michael Dorris (1997)
  10. Cover of Cloud Chamber by Michael Dorris (1997)
  11. Cover of The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading by Michael Dorris (1997)
  1. 1
    Guide to Research on North American Indians1983 · 330 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983330
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  2. 2
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water1987 · 372 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987372
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  3. 3
    The Broken Cord1989 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989300
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  4. 4
    Morning Girl1990 · 74 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199074
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Working Men: Stories1993 · 286 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993286
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays1993 · 66 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199366
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  7. 7
    Paper Trail1994 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994384
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  8. 8
    Guests1995 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995119
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  9. 9
    Sees Behind Trees1996 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996128
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  10. 10
    The Window1997 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997106
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  11. 11
    Cloud Chamber1997 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997320
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  12. 12
    The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading1997 · 180 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997180
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Michael Dorris 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

12 books

12 Michael Dorris titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Michael Dorris books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 12 Michael Dorris books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Michael Dorris

Start with Guide to Research on North American Indians (1983), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Michael Dorris book?

The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (1997) is the newest Michael Dorris book released so far.

Is there a new Michael Dorris book coming?

No next Michael Dorris 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 Dorris at a glance

Died
Michael Dorris died in 1997, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Michael Dorris on record dates from 1997.
Release pace
Michael Dorris books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,665 pages across all 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 233 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Michael Dorris books, 9 of 12, were published in the 1990s.

What the Michael Dorris books are about

All 12 Michael Dorris books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: indians of north america is tagged on 4 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.