Thomas King

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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A Dreadfulwater Mysteries

The Red Power Murders (Apr-2006)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Medicine River

    When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to ope...

  • All My Relations

  • Green Grass, Running Water

    Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Tho...

  • Truth and Bright Water

    Thomas King is a writer of lyrical, comic poignancy, and a best-selling author in Canada. Of his latest novel, Newsday wrote, "Thomas King has quietly and gorgeously done it again." Truth and Bright Water tells of a summer in the life of Tecumseh and...

  • Coyote Sings to the Moon

    Wales's comical illustrations and King's skillful storytelling make this an ideal tale to be read aloud. Together, they ensure that ""Coyote Sings to the Moon"" will be a favorite with parents and children alike....

  • The Red Power Murders

    A Dreadfulwater Mysteries

    From the bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian comes a wry and irreverent mystery

    Thumps DreadfulWater has never liked surprises -- even the good ones are annoying. So it’s no shock that a string of seemi...

  • 120 Years-Tough Hockey

    My first publication is dedicated to three beautiful and empowering ladies. My mother MARY'S, love and devotion has carried me to unexpected heights. Mom understood my ambitions and dreams. My dearly departed mother's love has enabled me overcome li...

  • Transcontinental Blues

    Transcontinental Blues is a work of fiction based on actual facts about the Selective Service Draft in the sixties and especially in 1968, during the Vietnam"War." I describe what getting drafted was really like and how basic training and active duty...

  • UFOs That Crashed to Earth

    Dear Readers: My new book, "UFOs That Crashed to Earth," is a fiction book based on the recorded history of nuclear weapon's detonations on Earth, current plans for nuclear waste storage facilities around the world, cover ups of USAF, UFO studies, re...



  • Martian Fever

         Martian Fever is about life on Mars from the year 2025 and beyond. Although the Red Planet has a hostile atmosphere made up of mostly carbon dioxide, Mankind will terraform it to contain breathable air. The ice which exists on the poles will...

  • Coyote's New Suit

    Coyote’s mighty pleased with his soft, brown suit -- until Raven slyly hints it’s not the finest in the forest. Now, Coyote is obsessed: Bear’s suit is much more impressive. Porcupine -- sporty! Raccoon is chic, while Skunk’s suit is pe...

  • A Coyote Solstice Tale

    Wily trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a little solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the friends through the snowy woods to the mall -- a place they had never seen before. The trickste...

  • Message From Titan

    Message from Titan is the third installment of my trilogy of science fiction books. UFOs That Crashed to Earth and Martian Fever were the first two books in the trilogy. This installment takes place in the future and Earth is burning up. Mankind is f...

  • How the Formula One Was Won

  • The Final Haircut

    Jayne Gold is the most talented hairdresser of her generation, she is on track to be one of the best in the world and is also building a successful business, but Jayne can’t let go she micro manages everything. Gordon is a young and talented employ...

  • One Good Story, That One: Stories

    One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King’s special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop...

  • A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories

     Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year -- a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice....

  • Coyote Tales

    Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for new...

  • The Back of the Turtle

    Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family, and the wildlife. Gabriel...



  • Cold Skies

    Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could use a new stov...

  • Wit's last stake. A farce

    Wit's last stake. A farce By Thomas King Wit's last stake. A farce: As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Thomas King was born in Sacramento, California in 1943, who self-identifies as of Cherokee, German, and Greek descent. King says h...

  • Insurrection

    Markus Crowe-Valdez arrives as a prisoner in a commercially owned gulag on a far away world, where
    he witnessed firsthand the harsh conditions of exoplanet colonization . After discovering a dark secret
    about the colony, he is caught in the...

  • Sufferance

    Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn’t expected to see ...

  • Borders

    From celebrated Indigenous author Thomas King and award-winning Métis artist Natasha Donovan comes a powerful graphic novel about a family caught between nations.Borders is a masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip i...

  • My LaLa

    A joyful picture book about confidence featuring a little girl making her mark on the world, from acclaimed author Thomas King, and for fans of Ladybug Girl.Lala wakes up one morning and decides that she owns the world. Quick as a fox, she bounds to ...

  • The Green Baby Swing

    A tender picture book about loss, intergenerational love and the power of family keepsakes, from acclaimed author Thomas King and for fans of Memory Jars.After Nana passes away, Xavier, his mother and Comet the kitten all head up to Nana's attic...

Award-Winning Books by Thomas King

A Coyote Solstice Tale
2010 American Indian Youth Literature Award -- Picture Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas King has published 26 books.

The next book by Thomas King, The Green Baby Swing, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Thomas King, Medicine River, was published in September 1990.

Yes. Thomas King has 1 series.
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