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William Dietrich Books in Order

William Dietrich has written 20 books, published between 1992 and 2016. The first book is The Final Forest (1992) and the newest is The Trojan Icon (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1992–2016
Confirmed
20 of 20 titles
Pages on record
5,654 in 16 of 20 books
Reading time
94–141 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,654 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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William Dietrich writes historical adventure novels and natural-history non-fiction. The Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic Wars, has been translated into 28 languages and includes Napoleon's Pyramids (2007) and The Rosetta Key (2008). Dietrich has also set novels in the Roman Empire, Antarctica and Australia, while his non-fiction covers the natural and environmental history of the Pacific Northwest, where he grew up and worked as a newspaper journalist. The catalogue holds 20 titles, from The Final Forest (1992) to The Trojan Icon (2016).

How many William Dietrich books are there?

William Dietrich has 20 books, released between 1992 and 2016. 8 of them belong to the Ethan Gage series.

William Dietrich Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 William Dietrich 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 Final Forest by William Dietrich, book 1 of the William Dietrich Non-Fiction series (1992)
  2. Cover of Northwest Passage by William Dietrich, book 2 of the William Dietrich Non-Fiction series (1995)
  3. Cover of Ice Reich by William Dietrich, book 1 of the William Dietrich Standalone Novels series (1998)
  4. Cover of Getting Back by William Dietrich, book 2 of the William Dietrich Standalone Novels series (2000)
  5. Cover of Dark Winter by William Dietrich, book 3 of the William Dietrich Standalone Novels series (2001)
  6. Cover of Natural Grace by William Dietrich, book 3 of the William Dietrich Non-Fiction series (2003)
  7. Cover of Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich, book 4 of the William Dietrich Standalone Novels series (2004)
  8. Cover of The Scourge of God by William Dietrich, book 5 of the William Dietrich Standalone Novels series (2005)
  9. Cover of Napoleon's Pyramids by William Dietrich, book 1 of the Ethan Gage series (2007)
  10. Cover of The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich, book 2 of the Ethan Gage series (2008)
  11. Cover of The Dakota Cipher by William Dietrich, book 3 of the Ethan Gage series (2009)
  12. Cover of The Emerald Storm by William Dietrich, book 5 of the Ethan Gage series (2012)
  13. Cover of The Barbed Crown by William Dietrich, book 6 of the Ethan Gage series (2013)
  14. Cover of The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby by William Dietrich (2014)
  15. Cover of The Three Emperors by William Dietrich, book 7 of the Ethan Gage series (2014)
  1. 1
    The Final ForestWilliam Dietrich Non-Fiction #11992 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992304
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  2. 2
    Northwest PassageWilliam Dietrich Non-Fiction #21995 · 448 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995448
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  3. 3
    Ice ReichWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #11998 · 420 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998420
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  4. 4
    Getting BackWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #22000 · 370 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000370
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  5. 5
    Dark WinterWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #32001 · 463 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001463
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  6. 6
    Natural GraceWilliam Dietrich Non-Fiction #32003 · 248 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2003248
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  7. 7
    Hadrian's WallWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #42004 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004400
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  8. 8
    The Scourge of GodWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #52005 · 334 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005334
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  9. 9
    Napoleon's PyramidsEthan Gage #12007 · 376 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007376
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  10. 10
    The Rosetta KeyEthan Gage #22008 · 339 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2008339
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  11. 11
    The Dakota CipherEthan Gage #32009 · 355 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009355
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  12. 12
    The Barbary PiratesEthan Gage #42010 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010336
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  13. 13
    Blood of the ReichWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #62011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  14. 14
    The Emerald StormEthan Gage #52012 · 348 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012348
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  15. 15
    The Barbed CrownEthan Gage #62013 · 348 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013348
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  16. 16
    The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild NearbyWilliam Dietrich Non-Fiction #42014 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014192
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  17. 17
    The Murder of Adam and EveWilliam Dietrich Standalone Novels #72014 · confirmed 3/4
    2014–
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  18. 18
    The Three EmperorsEthan Gage #72014 · 373 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014373
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  19. 19
    Napoleon's RulesWilliam Dietrich Non-Fiction #52015 · confirmed 3/4
    2015–
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  20. 20
    The Trojan IconEthan Gage #82016 · confirmed 4/4
    2016–
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William Dietrich series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

William Dietrich 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.

William Dietrich Standalone Novels

7 books

7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

William Dietrich Non-Fiction

5 books

5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read William Dietrich books in order?

You only need to read William Dietrich books in order within the Ethan Gage series, which holds 8 of the 20 William Dietrich books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with William Dietrich

Start with Napoleon's Pyramids (2007), the first Ethan Gage book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Final Forest (1992).

What is the newest William Dietrich book?

The Trojan Icon (2016) is the newest William Dietrich book released so far.

Is there a new William Dietrich book coming?

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

William Dietrich at a glance

No recent titles
The newest William Dietrich title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
William Dietrich books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,654 pages across the 16 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most William Dietrich books, 9 of 20, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
2 of the 20 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the William Dietrich books are about

17 of the 20 William Dietrich books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical fiction is tagged on 8 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Other Historical Fiction authors

Each link below opens a reading-order page with every book in publication order.