Richard Wagamese Books in Order
18 books are credited to Richard Wagamese, published between 1994 and 2021; 4 of them appeared after Richard Wagamese's death in 2017. The first book is Keeper'n Me (1994) and the newest is Richard Wagamese Selected:What Comes From Spirit (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 18
- Published
- 1994–2021
- Pages on record
- 3,866 in 17 of 18 books
- Reading time
- 64–97 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,866 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 18 titles with a page count on record.
Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario, born in 1955 and died in 2017. Wagamese's novel Indian Horse (2012) won the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, competed in Canada Reads that year, and became a 2017 film directed by Stephen Campanelli. The catalogue lists 18 books from Keeper'n Me (1994) to What Comes From Spirit (2021), among them A Quality of Light (1997), One Native Life (2008) and Ragged Company (2008).
How many Richard Wagamese books are there?
Richard Wagamese has 18 books, released between 1994 and 2021. 4 of them were published after Richard Wagamese's death in 2017.
Richard Wagamese Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 18 Richard Wagamese 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.
- 1Keeper'n Me1994 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/419942141/4
- 2The Terrible Summer1996 · confirmed 1/41996–1/4
- 3A Quality of Light1997 · 327 pages · confirmed 1/419973271/4
- 4For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son2002 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/420022281/4
- 5Dream Wheels2006 · 398 pages · confirmed 1/420063981/4
- 6One Native Life2008 · 257 pages · confirmed 1/420082571/4
- 7Ragged Company2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420083201/4
- 8Runaway Dreams2011 · 130 pages · confirmed 1/420111301/4
- 9One Story, One Song2011 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420112721/4
- 10The Next Sure Thing2011 · 134 pages · confirmed 1/420111341/4
- 11Indian Horse2012 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/420121881/4
- 12Him Standing2013 · 129 pages · confirmed 1/420131291/4
- 13Medicine Walk2014 · 245 pages · confirmed 1/420142451/4
- 14Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations2016 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420161761/4
- 15Starlight2018 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420182561/4
- 16One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet2019 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420191921/4
- 17A Perfect Likeness2021 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420212241/4
- 18Richard Wagamese Selected:What Comes From Spirit2021 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420211761/4
Richard Wagamese 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.
Standalone books
18 books18 Richard Wagamese titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Richard Wagamese books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 18 Richard Wagamese books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Richard Wagamese
Start with Keeper'n Me (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Richard Wagamese book?
Richard Wagamese Selected:What Comes From Spirit (2021) is the newest Richard Wagamese book released so far.
Is there a new Richard Wagamese book coming?
No next Richard Wagamese book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Richard Wagamese at a glance
- Died
- Richard Wagamese died in 2017, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Richard Wagamese are still being published after Richard Wagamese's death in 2017; the newest appeared in 2021.
- Release pace
- Richard Wagamese books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,866 pages across the 17 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Richard Wagamese books, 9 of 18, were published in the 2010s.
What the Richard Wagamese books are about
15 of the 18 Richard Wagamese books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: ojibwa indians is tagged on 7 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Ojibwa Indians 7 of 15 books
- Indians of North America 5 of 15 books
- Authors, Canadian (English) 3 of 15 books
- Biography 3 of 15 books
- Authors, canadian 2 of 15 books
- Canada 2 of 15 books
- Englisch 2 of 15 books
- Fathers and sons 2 of 15 books
- Indian authors 2 of 15 books
- Roman 2 of 15 books