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Richard Van Camp Books in Order

Richard Van Camp has written 19 books, published between 1996 and 2025. The first book is The Lesser Blessed (1996) and the newest is Beast (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1996–2025
Pages on record
1,067 in 10 of 19 books
Reading time
18–27 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,067 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

See all 19 books in order Printable Richard Van Camp checklist

Richard Van Camp, born September 8, 1971, is a Dogrib writer of the Dene nation, from Fort Smith in Canada's Northwest Territories. Van Camp's first catalogued book is the 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed, which director Anita Doron adapted into a film in 2012. The catalogue runs to 19 books through 2025, among them A Man Called Raven (1997), Welcome Song for Baby (2007), Little You (2013) and Three Feathers (2015), plus the Spirit of Denendeh series. Recorded subjects include Dogrib and Métis life, children's fiction, and comics and graphic novels.

How many Richard Van Camp books are there?

Richard Van Camp has 19 books, released between 1996 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Spirit of Denendeh series.

Richard Van Camp Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Richard Van Camp 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 Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp (1996)
  2. Cover of A Man Called Raven by Richard Van Camp (1997)
  3. Cover of What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp (1998)
  4. Cover of Angel Wing Splash Pattern by Richard Van Camp (2002)
  5. Cover of Welcome Song for Baby by Richard Van Camp (2007)
  6. Cover of The Moon of Letting Go by Richard Van Camp (2009)
  7. Cover of Nighty-Night by Richard Van Camp (2011)
  8. Cover of Godless but Loyal to Heaven by Richard Van Camp (2012)
  9. Cover of Little You by Richard Van Camp (2013)
  10. Cover of A Blanket of Butterflies by Richard Van Camp, book 1 of the Spirit of Denendeh series (2015)
  11. Cover of Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp, book 2 of the Debwe series (2015)
  12. Cover of Night Moves by Richard Van Camp (2015)
  13. Cover of We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp (2016)
  14. Cover of Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp (2019)
  15. Cover of Gather by Richard Van Camp (2021)
  16. Cover of Laila Tov by Richard Van Camp (2022)
  17. Cover of As I Enfold You in Petals by Richard Van Camp, book 2 of the Spirit of Denendeh series (2023)
  1. 1
    The Lesser Blessed1996 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996119
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  2. 2
    A Man Called Raven1997 · confirmed 1/4
    1997–
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  3. 3
    What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?1998 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199832
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  4. 4
    Angel Wing Splash Pattern2002 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002110
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  5. 5
    Welcome Song for Baby2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  6. 6
    The Moon of Letting Go2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  7. 7
    Nighty-Night2011 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201114
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  8. 8
    Godless but Loyal to Heaven2012 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012198
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  9. 9
    Little You2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  10. 10
    A Blanket of ButterfliesSpirit of Denendeh #12015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  11. 11
    Three FeathersDebwe #22015 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201548
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  12. 12
    Night Moves2015 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015200
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  13. 13
    We Sang You Home2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  14. 14
    Moccasin Square Gardens2019 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019160
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  15. 15
    May We Have Enough to Share2019 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201924
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  16. 16
    Gather2021 · 162 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021162
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  17. 17
    Laila Tov2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  18. 18
    As I Enfold You in PetalsSpirit of Denendeh #22023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  19. 19
    Beast2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Richard Van Camp 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.

Spirit of Denendeh in order

2 books
  1. 1. A Blanket of Butterflies
  2. 2. As I Enfold You in Petals

Debwe in order

1 book
  1. 2. Three Feathers

Standalone books

16 books

16 Richard Van Camp titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Richard Van Camp books in order?

You only need to read Richard Van Camp books in order within the Spirit of Denendeh series, which holds 2 of the 19 Richard Van Camp books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Richard Van Camp

Start with The Lesser Blessed (1996), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Richard Van Camp book?

Beast (2025) is the newest Richard Van Camp book released so far.

Is there a new Richard Van Camp book coming?

No next Richard Van Camp 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 Richard Van Camp has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Richard Van Camp. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Richard Van Camp at a glance

Still publishing
Richard Van Camp published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Richard Van Camp books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,067 pages across the 10 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 114 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Richard Van Camp books, 9 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Richard Van Camp books are about

15 of the 19 Richard Van Camp 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 7 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.