Michael Farris Smith Books in Order
Michael Farris Smith has written 8 books, published between 2011 and 2023. The first book is The Hands of Strangers (2011) and the newest is Salvage This World (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2011–2023
- Pages on record
- 1,652 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 28–41 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,652 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Mississippi heads the subject list for Michael Farris Smith's work. Eight catalogued books stretch from The Hands of Strangers (2011) to Salvage This World (2023), taking in Rivers (2013), Desperation Road (2017), The Fighter (2018), Blackwood (2020) and Nick (2021). Other subject headings cover American literature, family life, man-woman relationships, missing persons, wilderness survival, dystopias, mystery and detective fiction, the 1914-1918 war and Paris.
How many Michael Farris Smith books are there?
Michael Farris Smith has 8 books, released between 2011 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Rivers series.
Michael Farris Smith Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Michael Farris Smith 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.
- 1The Hands of Strangers2011 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/420111191/4
- 220133331/4
- 32014–1/4
- 4Desperation Road2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420173201/4
- 5The Fighter2018 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420182721/4
- 6Blackwood2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420203041/4
- 7Nick2021 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420213041/4
- 8Salvage This World2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
Michael Farris Smith 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.
Rivers in order
2 books- 1. Rivers
- 2. In The Beginning
Standalone books
6 books6 Michael Farris Smith titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Farris Smith books in order?
You only need to read Michael Farris Smith books in order within the Rivers series, which holds 2 of the 8 Michael Farris Smith books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Michael Farris Smith
Start with The Hands of Strangers (2011), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Farris Smith book?
Salvage This World (2023) is the newest Michael Farris Smith book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Farris Smith book coming?
No next Michael Farris Smith 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 Farris Smith at a glance
- Paused
- No new Michael Farris Smith title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Michael Farris Smith books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,652 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Farris Smith books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Michael Farris Smith books are about
6 of the 8 Michael Farris Smith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mississippi is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mississippi 3 of 6 books
- American literature 2 of 6 books
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 6 books