W. Michael Gear Books in Order
W. Michael Gear has written 36 books, published between 1988 and 2024. The first book is Long Ride Home (1988) and the newest is Bad Choices (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 1988–2024
- Confirmed
- 36 of 36 titles
- Pages on record
- 10,783 in 22 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 180–270 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 10,783 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
W. Michael Gear, born in 1955, is an American writer and archaeologist whose novels have appeared in 29 languages. Gear co-wrote the North America's Forgotten Past series with his wife Kathleen O'Neal Gear, and writes science fiction and westerns besides, through Donovan, the Spider Trilogy, Forbidden Borders, the Athena Trilogy, Wyoming Chronicles, Flight of the Hawk and Team Psi. Thirty-four catalogued titles run from 1988, the year of Long Ride Home and Big Horn Legacy, to Bad Choices (2024), taking in frontier life, the American West, revenge and extrasolar planets.
How many W. Michael Gear books are there?
W. Michael Gear has 36 books, released between 1988 and 2024. They include 8 separate series.
W. Michael Gear Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 W. Michael Gear 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.
- 119883823/4
- 219883853/4
- 319884643/4
- 419894083/4
- 519896483/4
- 619905283/4
- 719905423/4
- 819916243/4
- 919926263/4
- 101993–3/4
- 1119964903/4
- 1219976603/4
- 1320055333/4
- 1420153493/4
- 1520164443/4
- 1620184223/4
- 1720182723/4
- 1820184383/4
- 1920187043/4
- 202019–3/4
- 2120194963/4
- 2220204643/4
- 2320204963/4
- 242021–3/4
- 252021–3/4
- 262021–3/4
- 272022–3/4
- 282022–3/4
- 292022–3/4
- 3020234083/4
- 312023–3/4
- 322023–3/4
- 332024–3/4
- 342024–3/4
- 352024–3/4
- 362024–3/4
W. Michael Gear 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.
W. Michael Gear Standalone Novels
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Donovan in order
6 booksSaga of the Mountain Saga in order
4 booksWyoming Chronicles in order
4 booksSpider Trilogy in order
3 booksForbidden Borders in order
3 booksAthena Trilogy in order
3 booksFlight of the Hawk in order
2 books- 1. The River
- 2. The Plains
Team Psi in order
2 booksFirst North Americans in order
2 books- 24. People of the Songtrail
- 25. Sun Born
Do you have to read W. Michael Gear books in order?
You only need to read W. Michael Gear books in order within each series: the books listed here span 8 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with W. Michael Gear
Start with Long Ride Home (1988), the earliest published title.
What is the newest W. Michael Gear book?
Bad Choices (2024) is the newest W. Michael Gear book released so far.
Is there a new W. Michael Gear book coming?
No next W. Michael Gear 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 W. Michael Gear has won
Wikidata records 1 award for W. Michael Gear. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Owen Wister Award2021Won
W. Michael Gear at a glance
- Still publishing
- W. Michael Gear published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- W. Michael Gear books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 10,783 pages across the 22 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 477 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most W. Michael Gear books, 15 of 36, were published in the 2020s.
What the W. Michael Gear books are about
22 of the 36 W. Michael Gear books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 7 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Science fiction 7 of 22 books
- Westerns 6 of 22 books
- Frontier and pioneer life 4 of 22 books
- Historical fiction 4 of 22 books
- Action & adventure 2 of 22 books
- Extrasolar planets 2 of 22 books
- History 2 of 22 books
- Indians of North America 2 of 22 books
- West (U.S.) 2 of 22 books
- Young men 2 of 22 books