Gary Paulsen Reading Order

3 books (1991–2004)

Start with The Cookcamp and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Cookcamp 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Alida's Song 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Quilt 2004Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2003–2003)

#	Title
1	Shelf Life: Stories by the Book 2003Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1986–2003)

Start with Hatchet, the first of 5 books in the Brian Robeson series.

#	Title
1	Hatchet 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The River / The Return 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Brian's Winter / Winter 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brian's Return / The Call 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Brian's Hunt 2003Buy 🇺🇸

30 books (1992–1997)

Start with Amos Gets Famous, the first of 30 books in the Duncan Culpepper series.

#	Title
1	Amos Gets Famous 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Culpepper's Cannon 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dunc Breaks the Record 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dunc Gets Tweaked 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dunc and the Flaming Ghost 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dunc's Doll 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dunc's Halloween 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Case of the Dirty Bird 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cowpokes and Desperados 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top 1993Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos 1993Buy 🇺🇸
12	Dunc and the Haunted Castle 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dunc and the Scam Artists 1993Buy 🇺🇸
14	Dunc's Dump 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dunc's Undercover Christmas 1993Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Wild Culpepper Cruise 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	Amos and the Alien 1994Buy 🇺🇸
18	Amos's Killer Concert Caper 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	Coach Amos 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher 1994Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom 1994Buy 🇺🇸
22	Prince Amos 1994Buy 🇺🇸
23	Amos Gets Married 1995Buy 🇺🇸
24	Amos Binder, Secret Agent 1996Buy 🇺🇸
25	Amos Goes Bananas 1996Buy 🇺🇸
26	Amos and the Chameleon Caper 1996Buy 🇺🇸
27	Amos and the Vampire 1996Buy 🇺🇸
28	Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs 1996Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice 1997Buy 🇺🇸
30	Super Amos 1997Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–1999)

Start with Mr. Tucket / Chance for Escape, the first of 5 books in the Francis Tucket series.

#	Title
1	Mr. Tucket / Chance for Escape 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Call Me Francis Tucket 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tucket's Ride 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tucket's Home 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tucket's Gold 1999Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2007–2010)

Start with Lawn Boy and read in order.

#	Title
1	Lawn Boy 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lawn Boy Returns 2010Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

#	Title
1	Family Ties 2014Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1981–1991)

Start with The Sweeper and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Sweeper 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Clutterkill 1991Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1987–1996)

Start with Murphy, the first of 7 books in the Murphy series.

#	Title
1	Murphy 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murphy's Gold 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Murphy's Herd 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murphy's War 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Murphy's Stand(With: Brian Burks) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Murphy's Ambush(With: Brian Burks) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Murphy's Trail(With: Brian Burks) 1996Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1993–1997)

Start with Nightjohn and read in order.

#	Title
1	Nightjohn 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sarny 1997Buy 🇺🇸

35 books (1976–2012)

Start with Building a New, Buying an Old, Remodeling a Used Home/Shelter How-to-Do-It Book, the first of 35 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Building a New, Buying an Old, Remodeling a Used Home/Shelter How-to-Do-It Book 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring--Sometimes 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hitting, Pitching, and Running--Maybe 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Martin Luther King, the Man Who Climbed the Mountain 1976Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Small Ones 1976Buy 🇺🇸
6	Farm: A History and Celebration of the American Farmer 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging--Almost 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tackling, Running, and Kicking - Now and Again 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Forehanding and Backhanding--If You're Lucky 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	Hiking and Backpacking 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	Successful Home Repair 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Downhill, Hotdogging, and Cross-Country If the Snow Isn't Sticky 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	Full of Hot Air / Launching, Floating High and Landing 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	Pummeling, Falling, and Getting Up Sometimes 1979Buy 🇺🇸
16	Track, Enduro, and Motocross--Unless You Fall Over 1979Buy 🇺🇸
17	Athletics 1980Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ice Hockey 1980Buy 🇺🇸
19	Motor Cycling 1980Buy 🇺🇸
20	Skiing 1980Buy 🇺🇸
21	Tennis 1980Buy 🇺🇸
22	Money Saving Home Repair Guide 1981Buy 🇺🇸
23	Sailing 1981Buy 🇺🇸
24	Beat the System 1982Buy 🇺🇸
25	Woodsong 1990Buy 🇺🇸
26	Eastern Sun, Winter Moon 1993Buy 🇺🇸
27	Madonna Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
28	Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod 1994Buy 🇺🇸
29	Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers 1996Buy 🇺🇸
30	My Life in Dog Years 1997Buy 🇺🇸
31	Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride / Zero to Sixty 1997Buy 🇺🇸
32	Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats 2001Buy 🇺🇸
33	Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books 2001Buy 🇺🇸
34	How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme Sports 2003Buy 🇺🇸
35	Father Water, Mother Woods 2012Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1993–1999)

Start with Dogteam, the first of 4 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	Dogteam 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tortilla Factory 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Work Song 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Canoe Days 1999Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2013–2015)

Start with Road Trip and read in order.

#	Title
1	Road Trip 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Field Trip 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1998–2011)

Start with All Aboard Stage 5 Traditional Tales and read in order.

#	Title
1	All Aboard Stage 5 Traditional Tales 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Paintings from the Cave 2011Buy 🇺🇸

53 books (1968–2022)

Start with Some Birds Don't Fly, the first of 53 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Some Birds Don't Fly 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Death Specialists 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Implosion Effect 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Winterkill 1976Buy 🇺🇸
5	CB Jockey / The C.B. Radio Caper 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Curse of the Cobra 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Foxman 1977Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Golden Stick 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tiltawhirl John / Tasting the Thunder 1977Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Green Recruit 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Night the White Deer Died 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	Tracker 1978Buy 🇺🇸
13	Meteorite Track 291 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Spitball Gang 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	Compkill 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dancing Carl 1983Buy 🇺🇸
17	Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights 1983Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dogsong 1985Buy 🇺🇸
19	Sentries 1986Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Crossing 1987Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Island 1988Buy 🇺🇸
22	Night Rituals 1989Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Voyage of the Frog 1989Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Winter Room 1989Buy 🇺🇸
25	Canyons 1990Buy 🇺🇸
26	Kill Fee 1990Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Monument 1991Buy 🇺🇸
28	A Christmas Sonata 1992Buy 🇺🇸
29	Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass 1992Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Haymeadow / The Fourteenth Summer 1992Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sisters/Hermanas 1993Buy 🇺🇸
32	Tasting the Thunder 1993Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Car 1994Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Rifle 1995Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Tent 1995Buy 🇺🇸
36	Ice Race 1997Buy 🇺🇸
37	Soldier's Heart 1998Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Transall Saga / Blue Light 1998Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Beet Fields 2000Buy 🇺🇸
40	The White Fox Chronicles / White Fox 2000Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Time Hackers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Legend of Bass Reeves 2006Buy 🇺🇸
43	Mudshark 2009Buy 🇺🇸
44	Notes from the Dog 2009Buy 🇺🇸
45	Woods Runner 2009Buy 🇺🇸
46	Masters of Disaster 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Transall Saga(With: Johnny Heller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	This Side of Wild 2015Buy 🇺🇸
49	Fishbone's Song 2016Buy 🇺🇸
50	Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat 2016Buy 🇺🇸
51	Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood 2021Buy 🇺🇸
52	How to Train Your Dad 2021Buy 🇺🇸
53	Northwind 2022Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1990–2006)

Start with The Boy Who Owned the School, the first of 6 books in the Tales to Tickle the Funnybone series.

#	Title
1	The Boy Who Owned the School 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Schernoff Discoveries 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Glass Cafe 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech 2006Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2011–2013)

Start with Flat Broke, the first of 4 books in the Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties Of...Books series.

#	Title
1	Flat Broke 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Liar, Liar 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crush 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vote 2013Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1994–1998)

Start with Escape from Fire Mountain, the first of 18 books in the World Of Adventure series.

#	Title
1	Escape from Fire Mountain 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rodomonte's Revenge / Video Trap 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Legend of Red Horse Cavern 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Captive! 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Danger on Midnight River 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hook 'Em Snotty 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Gorgon Slayer 1995Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Rock Jockeys / Devil's Wall 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	Project: A Perfect World / Perfect Danger 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Skydive! 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Seventh Crystal 1996Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Treasure of El Patron / Treasure Ship 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	Grizzly 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Creature of Black Water Lake 1997Buy 🇺🇸
15	Thunder Valley 1997Buy 🇺🇸
16	Time Benders 1997Buy 🇺🇸
17	Curse of the Ruins 1998Buy 🇺🇸
18	Flight of the Hawk 1998Buy 🇺🇸