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Peter Wohlleben Books in Order

Peter Wohlleben has written 12 books, published between 2012 and 2022. The first book is The Weather Detective (2012) and the newest is Forest Walking (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2012–2022
Pages on record
1,652 in 8 of 12 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 8 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

See all 12 books in order Printable Peter Wohlleben checklist
Photo of Peter Wohlleben, author of the Mysteries of Nature series

Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author who writes about ecology in popular language, and who has argued, controversially, for plant sentience. The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) reached the New York Times bestseller list and appeared in English in 2016. Twelve books are catalogued between 2012 and 2022, from The Weather Detective (2012) to Forest Walking (2022), among them The Inner Life of Animals (2016), The Secret Wisdom of Nature (2017), The Heartbeat of Trees (2019) and The Power of Trees (2021). Mysteries of Nature is the one series catalogued, and trees, forests, symbiosis and food chains are the constants.

How many Peter Wohlleben books are there?

Peter Wohlleben has 12 books, released between 2012 and 2022. 3 of them belong to the Mysteries of Nature series.

Peter Wohlleben Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Peter Wohlleben 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 The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, book 1 of the Mysteries of Nature series (2015)
  2. Cover of Can You Hear the Trees Talking? by Peter Wohlleben (2017)
  3. Cover of The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben, book 3 of the Mysteries of Nature series (2017)
  4. Cover of Do You Know Where the Animals Live? by Peter Wohlleben (2019)
  5. Cover of The Secret Network of Nature by Peter Wohlleben (2019)
  6. Cover of Peter and the Tree Children by Peter Wohlleben (2020)
  7. Cover of The Power of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (2021)
  8. Cover of Forest Walking by Peter Wohlleben (2022)
  1. 1
    The Weather Detective2012 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012176
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  2. 2
    The Hidden Life of TreesMysteries of Nature #12015 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Inner Life of AnimalsMysteries of Nature #22016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Can You Hear the Trees Talking?2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Secret Wisdom of NatureMysteries of Nature #32017 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Do You Know Where the Animals Live?2019 · 84 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201984
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    The Heartbeat of Trees2019 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019256
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Secret Network of Nature2019 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Peter and the Tree Children2020 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202040
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Power of Trees2021 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021280
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Walks in the Wild2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Forest Walking2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Peter Wohlleben 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.

Mysteries of Nature in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Hidden Life of Trees
  2. 2. The Inner Life of Animals
  3. 3. The Secret Wisdom of Nature

Standalone books

9 books

9 Peter Wohlleben titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Peter Wohlleben books in order?

You only need to read Peter Wohlleben books in order within the Mysteries of Nature series, which holds 3 of the 12 Peter Wohlleben books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Peter Wohlleben

Start with The Weather Detective (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Peter Wohlleben book?

Forest Walking (2022) is the newest Peter Wohlleben book released so far.

Is there a new Peter Wohlleben book coming?

No next Peter Wohlleben book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Peter Wohlleben at a glance

Paused
No new Peter Wohlleben title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Peter Wohlleben books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,652 pages across the 8 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 264 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Peter Wohlleben books, 8 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Peter Wohlleben books are about

6 of the 12 Peter Wohlleben books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: ecology is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Ecology 4 of 6 books
  • Nature 4 of 6 books
  • Animal-plant relationships 3 of 6 books
  • Popular works 3 of 6 books
  • Food chains (ecology) 2 of 6 books
  • Forests and forestry 2 of 6 books
  • Mutualism (Biology) 2 of 6 books
  • Natural history 2 of 6 books
  • Symbiosis 2 of 6 books
  • Trees 2 of 6 books