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Sherman Alexie Books in Order

Sherman Alexie has written 26 books, published between 1991 and 2017. The first book is The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems (1991) and the newest is You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
26
Published
1991–2017
Pages on record
4,949 in 23 of 26 books
Reading time
82–124 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,949 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 23 of 26 titles with a page count on record.

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Sherman Alexie is a Spokane novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter and filmmaker whose work draws on his life as an Indigenous American with ancestry in several tribes. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and lives in Seattle, Washington. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) is his best known book: it took the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2007, and the Odyssey Award for best audiobook for young people in 2008, read by Alexie himself. Twenty-six titles are catalogued, from The Business of Fancydancing (1991) to You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (2017).

How many Sherman Alexie books are there?

Sherman Alexie has 26 books, released between 1991 and 2017.

Sherman Alexie Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 26 Sherman Alexie 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 Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems by Sherman Alexie (1991)
  2. Cover of Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  3. Cover of Old Shirts & New Skins by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  4. Cover of First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  5. Cover of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (1993)
  6. Cover of Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (1995)
  7. Cover of The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie (1996)
  8. Cover of The Man Who Loves Salmon by Sherman Alexie (1998)
  9. Cover of The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (2000)
  10. Cover of One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie (2000)
  11. Cover of Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay by Sherman Alexie (2003)
  12. Cover of Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie (2003)
  13. Cover of Flight by Sherman Alexie (2007)
  14. Cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2007)
  15. Cover of Conversations with Sherman Alexie by Sherman Alexie (2009)
  16. Cover of War Dances by Sherman Alexie (2009)
  17. Cover of Face by Sherman Alexie (2009)
  18. Cover of What I've Stolen, What I've Earned by Sherman Alexie (2013)
  19. Cover of The Best American Poetry 2015 by Sherman Alexie (2015)
  20. Cover of Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie (2016)
  1. 1
    The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems1991 · 84 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199184
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  2. 2
    Distances1993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  3. 3
    Smoke Signals1993 · 179 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993179
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  4. 4
    Old Shirts & New Skins1993 · 94 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199394
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  5. 5
    First Indian on the Moon1993 · 116 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993116
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  6. 6
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven1993 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993304
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  7. 7
    Reservation Blues1995 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995320
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  8. 8
    Water Flowing Home1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  9. 9
    Indian Killer1996 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996432
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  10. 10
    The Summer of Black Widows1996 · 139 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996139
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  11. 11
    The Man Who Loves Salmon1998 · 36 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199836
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  12. 12
    The Toughest Indian in the World2000 · 238 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000238
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  13. 13
    One Stick Song2000 · 91 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200091
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  14. 14
    Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay2003 · 157 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003157
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  15. 15
    Ten Little Indians2003 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003256
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  16. 16
    Flight2007 · 181 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007181
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  17. 17
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian2007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007–
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  18. 18
    Conversations with Sherman Alexie2009 · 198 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009198
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  19. 19
    War Dances2009 · 209 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009209
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  20. 20
    Radioactive Love Song2009 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009256
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  21. 21
    Face2009 · 159 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009159
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  22. 22
    Blasphemy2012 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012480
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  23. 23
    What I've Stolen, What I've Earned2013 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013160
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  24. 24
    The Best American Poetry 20152015 · 211 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015211
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  25. 25
    Thunder Boy Jr.2016 · 36 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201636
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  26. 26
    You Don't Have to Say You Love Me2017 · 613 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017613
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Sherman Alexie 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

26 books

26 Sherman Alexie titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sherman Alexie books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 26 Sherman Alexie books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sherman Alexie

Start with The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sherman Alexie book?

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (2017) is the newest Sherman Alexie book released so far.

Is there a new Sherman Alexie book coming?

No next Sherman Alexie 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 Sherman Alexie has won

Wikidata records 7 awards for Sherman Alexie. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Dos Passos Prize2013Won
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction2010Won
  • Peter Pan prize2009Won
  • National Book Award for Young People's Literature2007Won
  • O. Henry Award2005Won
  • PEN/Malamud Award2001Won
  • American Book Awards1996Won

Sherman Alexie at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Sherman Alexie title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Sherman Alexie books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,949 pages across the 23 of 26 books with a recorded length, a median of 181 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sherman Alexie books, 11 of 26, were published in the 1990s.

What the Sherman Alexie books are about

24 of the 26 Sherman Alexie 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 20 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.