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Sara Gruen Books in Order

Sara Gruen has written 5 books, published between 2004 and 2015. The first book is Riding Lessons (2004) and the newest is At the Water's Edge (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2004–2015
Pages on record
1,500 in 4 of 5 books
Reading time
25–38 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,500 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

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Sara Gruen is a Canadian-American author, born in Vancouver in 1969, and a 2007 recipient of the Alex Award for young adult literature. Horses, horsemanship, mother-daughter relationships, circus performers and bonobos are the subjects across a small catalogue: 5 books published between 2004 and 2015. Riding Lessons and Flying Changes both appeared in 2004, Water for Elephants in 2006, Ape House in 2010 and At the Water's Edge in 2015.

How many Sara Gruen books are there?

Sara Gruen has 5 books, released between 2004 and 2015. 2 of them belong to the Riding Lessons series.

Sara Gruen Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Sara Gruen 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 Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen, book 1 of the Riding Lessons series (2004)
  2. Cover of Flying Changes by Sara Gruen, book 2 of the Riding Lessons series (2004)
  3. Cover of Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006)
  4. Cover of Ape House by Sara Gruen (2010)
  1. 1
    Riding LessonsRiding Lessons #12004 · 387 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004387
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  2. 2
    Flying ChangesRiding Lessons #22004 · 371 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004371
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Water for Elephants2006 · 350 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006350
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Ape House2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    At the Water's Edge2015 · 392 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015392
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Sara Gruen 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.

Riding Lessons in order

2 books
  1. 1. Riding Lessons
  2. 2. Flying Changes

Standalone books

3 books

3 Sara Gruen titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sara Gruen books in order?

You only need to read Sara Gruen books in order within the Riding Lessons series, which holds 2 of the 5 Sara Gruen books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Sara Gruen

Start with Riding Lessons (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sara Gruen book?

At the Water's Edge (2015) is the newest Sara Gruen book released so far.

Is there a new Sara Gruen book coming?

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

Sara Gruen at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Sara Gruen title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Sara Gruen books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,500 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 379 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sara Gruen books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sara Gruen books are about

All 5 Sara Gruen books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horsemanship is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.