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Ruth Gruber Books in Order

11 books are credited to Ruth Gruber, published between 1972 and 2018; 1 of them appeared after Ruth Gruber's death in 2016. The first book is Felisa Rincon de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan (1972) and the newest is Collected Memoirs: Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1972–2018
Pages on record
2,145 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
36–54 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,145 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

See all 11 books in order Printable Ruth Gruber checklist

Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 to November 17, 2016) was an American writer, journalist and photographer, a humanitarian, and an official of the United States government. Gruber was born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants and earned a doctorate from the University of Cologne at age 20 with a dissertation on Virginia Woolf. During the 1930s Gruber reported on women under fascism and communism, travelling to the Soviet Arctic. Gruber also worked for two years in Alaska for the U.S. Department of the Interior, as a field representative. The catalogue lists 11 books from 1972 to 2018, among them Haven (1983), Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation (1999) and Witness (2007).

How many Ruth Gruber books are there?

Ruth Gruber has 11 books, released between 1972 and 2018. 1 of them were published after Ruth Gruber's death in 2016.

Ruth Gruber Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Ruth Gruber 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 Felisa Rincon de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan by Ruth Gruber (1972)
  2. Cover of Raquela: A Woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber (1978)
  3. Cover of Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America by Ruth Gruber (1983)
  4. Cover of Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews by Ruth Gruber (1987)
  5. Cover of Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent by Ruth Gruber (1991)
  6. Cover of Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation by Ruth Gruber (1999)
  7. Cover of Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel by Ruth Gruber (2002)
  8. Cover of Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman by Ruth Gruber (2005)
  9. Cover of Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story by Ruth Gruber (2007)
  1. 1
    Felisa Rincon de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan1972 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972238
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  2. 2
    Raquela: A Woman of Israel1978 · confirmed 1/4
    1978–
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  3. 3
    Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America1983 · 334 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983334
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  4. 4
    Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews1987 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987234
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  5. 5
    I Went to the Soviet Arctic1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  6. 6
    Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent1991 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991336
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  7. 7
    Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation1999 · 204 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999204
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  8. 8
    Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel2002 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002352
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  9. 9
    Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman2005 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005192
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  10. 10
    Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story2007 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007255
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  11. 11
    Collected Memoirs: Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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Ruth Gruber 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

11 books

11 Ruth Gruber titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ruth Gruber books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Ruth Gruber books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Ruth Gruber

Start with Felisa Rincon de Gautier: The Mayor of San Juan (1972), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ruth Gruber book?

Collected Memoirs: Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time (2018) is the newest Ruth Gruber book released so far.

Is there a new Ruth Gruber book coming?

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

Ruth Gruber at a glance

Died
Ruth Gruber died in 2016, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Ruth Gruber are still being published after Ruth Gruber's death in 2016; the newest appeared in 2018.
Release pace
Ruth Gruber books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,145 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 246 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ruth Gruber books, 3 of 11, were published in the 2000s.

What the Ruth Gruber books are about

9 of the 11 Ruth Gruber books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 6 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.