N. Scott Momaday Books in Order
N. Scott Momaday has written 31 books, published between 1967 and 2022. The first book is The Journey of Tai-me (1967) and the newest is Dream Drawings (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 31
- Published
- 1967–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,733 in 20 of 31 books
- Reading time
- 46–68 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,733 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 31 titles with a page count on record.
Navarre Scott Momaday was a Kiowa and American poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist, born February 27, 1934 and dead on January 24, 2024. The novel House Made of Dawn took the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is held to be the first major work of the Native American Renaissance; Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, wrote on Momaday's death that the book moved between oral storytelling and the written English novel. The catalogue holds 31 titles, from The Journey of Tai-me (1967) to Dream Drawings (2022), taking in The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), The Colors of Night (1976) and The Gourd Dancer (1976). Kiowa people, Indigenous peoples of North America, folklore and poetry lead the subjects.
Source: Wikidata
How many N. Scott Momaday books are there?
N. Scott Momaday has 31 books, released between 1967 and 2022.
N. Scott Momaday Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 31 N. Scott Momaday 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.
- 1The Journey of Tai-me1967 · 69 pages · confirmed 1/41967691/4
- 2House Made of Dawn1968 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/419681981/4
- 3The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground1969 · confirmed 1/41969–1/4
- 4The Way to Rainy Mountain1969 · 88 pages · confirmed 1/41969881/4
- 5Bringing on the Indians1971 · confirmed 1/41971–1/4
- 6Colorado, summer/fall/winter/spring1973 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/419731201/4
- 7Angle of Geese and Other Poems1974 · 28 pages · confirmed 1/41974281/4
- 8The Names1976 · 170 pages · confirmed 1/419761701/4
- 9The Gourd Dancer1976 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/41976641/4
- 10The Colors of Night1976 · confirmed 1/41976–1/4
- 11A First American Views His Land1976 · confirmed 1/41976–1/4
- 12With Eagle Glance: American Indian Photographic Images, 1868-19311982 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/41982631/4
- 13Discovering the Land of Light1985 · confirmed 1/41985–1/4
- 14On Bavarian Byways1986 · confirmed 1/41986–1/4
- 15Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday1989 · 229 pages · confirmed 1/419892291/4
- 16The Ancient Child1989 · 313 pages · confirmed 1/419893131/4
- 171991–1/4
- 18In the Presence of the Sun1992 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/419921431/4
- 19Storyteller1992 · confirmed 1/41992–1/4
- 20Circle of Wonder1993 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/41993401/4
- 21Conversations with N. Scott Momaday1997 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/419972371/4
- 22The Man Made of Words1997 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/419972111/4
- 2319992091/4
- 24In the Bear's House1999 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/41999961/4
- 25Four Arrows & Magpie2006 · 35 pages · confirmed 1/42006351/4
- 26Three Plays2007 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/420071881/4
- 27Again the Far Morning2011 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/420111521/4
- 28Jean-Claude Gaugy2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 29The Death of Sitting Bear2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 30Earth Keeper2020 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/42020801/4
- 31Dream Drawings2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
N. Scott Momaday 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.
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1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
29 books29 N. Scott Momaday titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read N. Scott Momaday books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 31 N. Scott Momaday books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with N. Scott Momaday
Start with The Journey of Tai-me (1967), the earliest published title.
What is the newest N. Scott Momaday book?
Dream Drawings (2022) is the newest N. Scott Momaday book released so far.
Is there a new N. Scott Momaday book coming?
No next N. Scott Momaday 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 N. Scott Momaday has won
Wikidata records 4 awards and 2 nominations for N. Scott Momaday. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.
- Robert Frost Medal2021Won
- Owen Wister Award2010Won
- St. Louis Literary Award2000Won
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1969Wonfor House Made of Dawn
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature2006Shortlisted
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature2000Shortlisted
N. Scott Momaday at a glance
- Died
- N. Scott Momaday died in 2024, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to N. Scott Momaday on record dates from 2022.
- Release pace
- N. Scott Momaday books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,733 pages across the 20 of 31 books with a recorded length, a median of 132 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most N. Scott Momaday books, 8 of 31, were published in the 1990s.
When N. Scott Momaday books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when N. Scott Momaday titles appeared. 1990s was the most productive decade with 8 titles.
31 books total across 7 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the N. Scott Momaday books are about
21 of the 31 N. Scott Momaday 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 10 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Indians of North America 10 of 21 books
- Folklore 5 of 21 books
- Kiowa Indians 5 of 21 books
- Poetry 4 of 21 books
- Authors 3 of 21 books
- Literary collections 3 of 21 books
- Momaday, n. scott, 1934- 3 of 21 books
- Biography 2 of 21 books
- Interviews 2 of 21 books
- Pictorial works 2 of 21 books