Rebecca Solnit Books in Order
Rebecca Solnit has written 30 books, published between 1991 and 2026. The first book is Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (1991) and the newest is The Beginning Comes After the End (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 30
- Published
- 1991–2026
- Pages on record
- 5,917 in 25 of 30 books
- Reading time
- 99–148 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,917 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 25 of 30 titles with a page count on record.
Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist, born in 1961, whose subjects include feminism, the environment, politics, place and art. River of Shadows won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. A Paradise Built in Hell (2009, revised 2020) examines how communities help one another after disasters, The Faraway Nearby (2013) is a memoir, and Men Explain Things to Me (2014) collects essays on feminism and women's writing. The catalogue lists 30 titles, beginning with Secret Exhibition (1991) and including Savage Dreams (1994), Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001) and A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005). The Beginning Comes After the End (2026) is the newest.
How many Rebecca Solnit books are there?
Rebecca Solnit has 30 books, released between 1991 and 2026. 3 of them belong to the City Atlases series.
Rebecca Solnit Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 30 Rebecca Solnit 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.
- 1Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era1991 · 145 pages · confirmed 1/419911451/4
- 2Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West1994 · 408 pages · confirmed 1/419944081/4
- 3A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland1997 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/419971841/4
- 4Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism2001 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/420011881/4
- 5Wanderlust: A History of Walking2001 · 335 pages · confirmed 1/420013351/4
- 6As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art2001 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420012401/4
- 7River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West2003 · 305 pages · confirmed 1/420033051/4
- 8Motion Studies: time, space and Eadweard Muybridge2003 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420033201/4
- 9Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities2004 · 182 pages · confirmed 1/420041821/4
- 10A Field Guide to Getting Lost2005 · 209 pages · confirmed 1/420052091/4
- 11Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics2007 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/420074161/4
- 12The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle2008 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/42008801/4
- 13A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster2009 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420093681/4
- 142010–1/4
- 1520131761/4
- 16The Faraway Nearby2013 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/420132591/4
- 17Men Explain Things To Me2014 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420141761/4
- 18The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness2014 · 334 pages · confirmed 1/420143341/4
- 1920162321/4
- 20The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms2017 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/420172141/4
- 21Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado2017 · 212 pages · confirmed 1/420172121/4
- 22Call Them by Their True Names2018 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/420181881/4
- 23Cinderella Liberator2019 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/42019321/4
- 24Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters2019 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/420191501/4
- 25Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir2020 · 244 pages · confirmed 1/420202441/4
- 26Orwell's Roses2021 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420213201/4
- 27Waking Beauty2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 28Not Too Late2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 29No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 30The Beginning Comes After the End2026 · confirmed 1/42026–1/4
Rebecca Solnit 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.
City Atlases in order
3 booksStandalone books
27 books27 Rebecca Solnit titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Rebecca Solnit books in order?
You only need to read Rebecca Solnit books in order within the City Atlases series, which holds 3 of the 30 Rebecca Solnit books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Rebecca Solnit
Start with Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (1991), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Rebecca Solnit book?
The Beginning Comes After the End (2026) is the newest Rebecca Solnit book released so far.
Is there a new Rebecca Solnit book coming?
No next Rebecca Solnit 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 Rebecca Solnit has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Rebecca Solnit. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award2008Won
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism2003Wonfor River of Shadows
Rebecca Solnit at a glance
- Still publishing
- Rebecca Solnit published a book as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Rebecca Solnit books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,917 pages across the 25 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 214 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rebecca Solnit books, 11 of 30, were published in the 2010s.
What the Rebecca Solnit books are about
26 of the 30 Rebecca Solnit books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 6 of 26. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 6 of 26 books
- Biography 4 of 26 books
- Travel 4 of 26 books
- Feminism 4 of 26 books
- Women 4 of 26 books
- Social conditions 3 of 26 books
- American art 2 of 26 books
- Essays 2 of 26 books
- Authors, biography 2 of 26 books
- Chronophotography 2 of 26 books
- Cinematographers 2 of 26 books