Gary Paulsen Books In Order

Publication Order of Mr. Tucket Books

Mr. Tucket	1969
Call Me Francis Tucket	1995
Tucket’s Ride	1997
Tucket’s Gold	1999
Tucket’s Home	2000

Publication Order of Brian’s Saga Books

Hatchet	1987
The River / Hatchet: The Return	1991
Brian’s Winter / Hatchet: Winter	1996
Brian’s Return / Hatchet: The Call	1999
Brian’s Hunt	2003

Publication Order of Murphy Books

Murphy	1987
Murphy’s Gold	1988
Murphy’s Herd	1989
Murphy’s War	1990
Murphy’s Stand (With: Brian Burks)	1993
Murphy’s Ambush (With: Brian Burks)	1995
Murphy’s Trail (With: Brian Burks)	1996

Publication Order of Tales to Tickle the Funnybone Books

The Boy Who Owned the School	1990
Harris and Me	1993
The Schernoff Discoveries	1997
The Glass Cafe	2003
Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day	2004
The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech	2006

Publication Order of Alida Books

The Cookcamp	1991
Alida’s Song	1999
The Quilt	2004

Publication Order of Culpepper Adventures Books

The Case of the Dirty Bird	1992
Dunc’s Doll	1992
Culpepper’s Cannon	1992
Dunc Gets Tweaked	1992
Dunc’s Halloween	1992
Dunc Breaks the Record	1992
Dunc and the Flaming Ghost	1992
Amos Gets Famous	1992
Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top	1993
Dunc’s Dump	1993
Dunc and the Scam Artists	1993
Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos	1993
Dunc’s Undercover Christmas	1993
The Wild Culpepper Cruise	1993
Dunc and the Haunted Castle	1993
Cowpokes and Desperadoes	1993
Prince Amos	1994
Coach Amos	1994
Amos and the Alien	1994
Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher	1994
Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom	1994
Amos’s Killer Concert Caper	1994
Amos Gets Married	1995
Amos Goes Bananas	1996
Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs	1996
Amos and the Vampire	1996
Amos and the Chameleon Caper	1996
Amos Binder, Secret Agent	1996
Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice	1997
Super Amos	1997

Publication Order of Nightjohn Books

Nightjohn	1993
Sarny	1997

Publication Order of World of Adventure Books

The Legend of Red Horse Cavern	1994
Rodomonte’s Revenge / Video Trap	1994
Escape from Fire Mountain	1995
The Rock Jockeys / Devil’s Wall	1995
Hook ’Em Snotty!	1995
Danger on Midnight River	1995
The Gorgon Slayer	1995
Captive!	1995
Project: A Perfect World / Perfect Danger	1996
The Treasure of El Patron / Treasure Ship	1996
Skydive!	1996
The Seventh Crystal	1996
The Creature of Black Water Lake	1997
Time Benders	1997
Grizzly	1997
Thunder Valley	1997
Curse of the Ruins	1998
Flight of the Hawk	1998

Publication Order of Lawn Boy Books

Lawn Boy	2007
Lawn Boy Returns	2010

Publication Order of Liar, Liar Books

Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception	2011
Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Greed	2011
Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love	2012
Vote: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Politics	2013
Family Ties: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Relatives	2014

Publication Order of Road Trip Books

Road Trip (With: Jim Paulsen)	2013
Field Trip (With: Jim Paulsen)	2015

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Some Birds Don’t Fly	1968
Winterkill	1976
The Death Specialists	1976
The Implosion Effect	1976
The Foxman	1977
Tiltawhirl John / Tasting the Thunder	1977
The Golden Stick	1977
C.B. Jockey / The C.B. Radio Caper	1977
The Curse of the Cobra	1977
The Green Recruit	1978
The Night the White Deer Died	1978
Meteorite Track 291	1979
The Spitball Gang	1980
Compkill	1981
The Sweeper	1981
Clutterkill	1982
Dancing Carl	1983
Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights	1983
Tracker	1984
Dogsong	1985
Sentries	1986
The Crossing	1987
The Island	1988
Night Rituals	1989
The Voyage of the Frog	1989
The Winter Room	1989
Canyons	1990
Kill Fee	1990
The Monument	1991
The Haymeadow / The Fourteenth Summer	1992
A Christmas Sonata	1992
Sisters / Hermanas	1993
The Car	1994
The Tent	1995
The Rifle	1995
Ice Race	1997
The Transall Saga / Blue Light	1998
Soldier’s Heart	1998
The Beet Fields	2000
The White Fox Chronicles	2000
The Time Hackers	2005
The Legend of Bass Reeves	2006
Mudshark	2009
Notes from the Dog	2009
Woods Runner	2010
Masters of Disaster	2010
Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat	2016
Fishbone’s Song	2016
How to Train Your Dad	2021
Northwind	2022

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Madonna Stories	1988
Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas	2011

Publication Order of Children’s Books

Dogteam	1993
The Tortilla Factory	1995
Worksong	1997
Canoe Days	1999

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Woodsong	1990
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass	1992
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon	1993
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod	1994
Father Water, Mother Woods	1994
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers	1996
My Life in Dog Years	1997
Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride / Zero to Sixty	1997
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books	2001
Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats	2001
How Angel Peterson Got His Name	2003
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs	2015
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood	2021

About Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen (1939 to 2021) was an American writer of children’s and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories set in the wilderness. He wrote more than 200 books, among them the survival novel “Hatchet” (1987), and won the American Library Association’s Margaret Edwards Award in 1997 for his contribution to writing for teenagers.

Paulsen was born in Minneapolis. His father was a career army officer who left soon after the birth, and Paulsen did not see him again until he was seven, when he and his mother sailed to join him in the Philippines. He later wrote about those years in the memoir “Eastern Sun, Winter Moon”, and about a Minnesota adolescence spent working as a farmhand, setting pins in a bowling alley and hunting for food in “Guts”. He graduated from high school in Thief River Falls, dropped out of Bemidji State University and served in the US Army from 1959 to 1962, reaching the rank of sergeant.

“Hatchet” follows Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old flying to visit his father in northern Canada when the pilot dies of a heart attack. Brian crash-lands in a lake and has to survive alone for 54 days with little more than the hatchet his mother gave him. The book was a Newbery Honor title in 1988 and was filmed as “A Cry in the Wild” in 1990. Paulsen returned to Brian in four more novels, ending with “Brian’s Hunt” in 2003.

Two other novels, “Dogsong” and “The Winter Room”, were also Newbery runners-up. His other series include the Mr. Tucket westerns, begun in 1969, the Culpepper Adventures and World of Adventure books for younger readers, and the Murphy westerns for adults. “Nightjohn” (1993), a novel about slavery in the American South before the Civil War, was made into a film in 1996 and followed by a sequel, “Sarny”.

Paulsen ran the Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska in 1983, finishing 41st, and drew on it for “Woodsong” and “Winterdance”. Heart disease made him give up dog sledding in 1990, and he spent more than a decade sailing the Pacific before returning to it. He married the illustrator Ruth Wright in 1971 and lived for many years in New Mexico.

He died at his home in Tularosa, New Mexico, on 13 October 2021, aged 82. The memoir “Gone to the Woods” and the novel “How to Train Your Dad” appeared that year, and a final novel, “Northwind”, was published in 2022.