Thomas King Books in Order

In a small Ontario town where life feels ordinary, strange events ripple outward after aliens land on the moon, connecting a flung rosary, a furious grandmother, petty crime and quiet acts of courage in a sideways look at belief and responsibility.

Serving as temporary deputy sheriff, Thumps juggles community grief, a dead private investigator who seemed harmless, a missing woman and a shadowy group called Black Ice, all while wrangling a troublesome dog and wondering if he really wants authority back.

When a gold coin exhibition at the Buffalo Mountain resort brings dealers and security worries to Chinook, Thumps is tasked with keeping the event calm, only to face a murder, an FBI presence and fresh complications in his relationship with Claire.

After the pandemic, Thumps is easing back into life in Chinook when he stumbles on a body at the bottom of a treacherous canyon known as Deep House, uncovering secrets tied to an abandoned facility, missing people and risky experiments.

Burned out data analyst Jeremiah Camp hides at an abandoned residential school on a reserve, hoping to escape the corporate empire he once served, until his former boss arrives demanding he explain why billionaires on a list he made keep dying.

In this graphic novel adaptation, a boy and his mother travel from their Blackfoot reserve toward Salt Lake City, only to be stranded between border posts when she refuses to declare herself Canadian or American instead of simply Blackfoot.

The murder of a reality TV producer in Chinook seems to echo the unsolved killing of Thumps's girlfriend years earlier, forcing him to reopen the past as a possible serial killer resurfaces and his friends rally around another difficult investigation.

Markus Crowe Valdez is shipped as a prisoner to a corporate run labour camp on a distant exoplanet, where colonists are expendable. Discovering a dark secret at the heart of the terraforming project, he must organise a revolt and seek wary alien allies.

Long married couple Bird and Mimi take a wary holiday in Europe, following a trail of old postcards from Mimi's vanished uncle who stole a family heirloom, as travel mishaps, health worries and old griefs mix with wry, intimate humour.

When a true crime TV crew revisits the death of a local heiress, Thumps reluctantly agrees to consult, only to have the producer die in the same way, leaving him to untangle two eerily mirrored cases and an old, personal mystery.

In seventy seven brief poems, King riffs on history, climate change, greed and aging, mixing mythic images with pointed references to contemporary politics in a voice that is by turns playful, angry and quietly elegiac.

On the eve of a high profile water conference, a scientist linked to a controversial drilling technology is found dead, and Thumps is drawn into a dangerous struggle between environmental risk, powerful investors and the secrets visitors bring to town.

A famed Red Power activist arrives in Chinook just as a retired FBI agent turns up dead at the local hotel, forcing Thumps into a temporary deputy role and into a case tangled with old militancy, missing leaders and small town suspicion.

This early chapter book brings together two linked stories, Coyote Sings to the Moon and Coyote's New Suit, retold with fresh illustrations so young readers can follow the trickster's noisy songs, bad decisions and unexpected lessons about pride and generosity.

Scientist Gabriel Quinn returns to a devastated coastal reserve where a defoliant he helped create killed the land and its people. Planning to drown himself, he instead begins saving lives and confronting corporate guilt, environmental ruin and the chance to make amends.

A lively, opinionated history of Indigenous peoples in North America, this book looks at treaties, popular culture, law and land theft through sharp anecdotes and humour, asking how the stories settlers tell still shape policy and prejudice.

Coyote is hosting a cozy solstice feast in the woods when a little girl leads the animal guests to a crowded shopping mall, where dazzling displays tempt them into buying more and more until Coyote learns the difference between celebration and runaway consumption.

These sharply satirical stories imagine Indigenous people as everything from rare birds over Toronto to collected curiosities and stubborn neighbours, using absurd premises and dark humour to expose stereotypes, bureaucracy and the lingering logic of the Indian Act.

Vain Coyote is talked into believing his brown fur is shabby, so he steals the other animals' coats while they swim, setting off a chain of costume swapping and embarrassment that gently pokes fun at envy and wanting more than we need.

Based on his Massey Lectures, this book uses personal memories, creation tales and cultural history to explore how stories about Indigenous peoples shape law, politics and everyday attitudes, and asks what changes when we choose to tell different stories instead.

Former California cop Thumps DreadfulWater is trying to live quietly as a photographer in Chinook when he discovers a body in a new condo resort, pulling him back into investigation amid tribal politics, corporate money and his own uneasy past.

Trickster Coyote proudly watches over the world she has made until a red haired sailor named Columbus arrives, more interested in capturing people than in baseball or moose, in a mischievous picture book that flips the familiar discovery story on its head.

Teenager Tecumseh splits his days between the border towns of Truth, Montana, and Bright Water across the river in Canada, as a strange woman's plunge into the water, family secrets and an eccentric artist's schemes shape a haunting coming of age.

In a time when animals and humans can still talk, Old Woman and the forest creatures sing to the moon each night until Coyote's terrible voice drives Moon away, plunging the world into darkness and forcing him to help coax her back.

This collection of ten short stories ranges from sly trickster tales to contemporary urban scenes, blending Native oral storytelling with pop culture and biblical riffs while circling themes of identity, family, colonial history and the misreadings that sit between cultures.

This layered novel follows Blackfoot characters in Alberta whose lives intersect with four mysterious elders and the trickster Coyote, blending creation stories, satire and contemporary life into a looping tale about land, belief and the power of stories.

Photographer Will Sampson returns to the Alberta town of Medicine River and the nearby Blackfoot community he once left behind, rebuilding friendships, piecing together his family history and slowly finding a place for himself in the stories people share.

Edited by King, this anthology gathers fiction and poetry from Indigenous writers across Canada, showcasing stories, novel excerpts and a play scene that move from reserves to cities while tracing humour, loss, resistance and the ties that bind communities together.