Robin Wall Kimmerer Books in Order
Robin Wall Kimmerer has written 5 books, published between 2003 and 2025. The first book is Gathering Moss (2003) and the newest is Bud Finds Her Gift (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2003–2025
- Pages on record
- 528 in 3 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 8.8–13 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 528 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about plants, ecology and Indigenous knowledge. Five books are catalogued: Gathering Moss (2003), Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults (2023), The Serviceberry (2024) and Bud Finds Her Gift (2025). Braiding Sweetgrass is the best known of them. Kimmerer, born in 1953, is Potawatomi and is an associate professor of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mosses, plant ecology, forests, human-plant relationships and the philosophy of nature are the subject headings.
How many Robin Wall Kimmerer books are there?
Robin Wall Kimmerer has 5 books, released between 2003 and 2025.
Robin Wall Kimmerer Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Robin Wall Kimmerer 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.
- 1Gathering Moss2003 · 168 pages · confirmed 1/420031681/4
- 2Braiding Sweetgrass2013 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420133201/4
- 3Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 4The Serviceberry2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 5Bud Finds Her Gift2025 · 40 pages · confirmed 1/42025401/4
Robin Wall Kimmerer 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
5 books5 Robin Wall Kimmerer titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Robin Wall Kimmerer books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Robin Wall Kimmerer books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Start with Gathering Moss (2003), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Robin Wall Kimmerer book?
Bud Finds Her Gift (2025) is the newest Robin Wall Kimmerer book released so far.
Is there a new Robin Wall Kimmerer book coming?
No next Robin Wall Kimmerer book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Robin Wall Kimmerer at a glance
- Still publishing
- Robin Wall Kimmerer published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Robin Wall Kimmerer books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
- Length
- 528 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 168 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Robin Wall Kimmerer books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2020s.
What the Robin Wall Kimmerer books are about
2 of the 5 Robin Wall Kimmerer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: botany is tagged on 2 of 2. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Botany 2 of 2 books
- Ecology 2 of 2 books
- Bryophyta 1 of 2 books
- Effect of human beings on 1 of 2 books
- Forests 1 of 2 books
- Human-plant relationships 1 of 2 books
- Indian philosophy 1 of 2 books
- Life history 1 of 2 books
- Mosses 1 of 2 books
- Mosses and liverworts 1 of 2 books
- Nature 1 of 2 books
- Philosophy of nature 1 of 2 books