Richard Bach

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1970
  • Latest Book:
    July 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Ferret Chronicles

1 - Rescue Ferrets at Sea (Jun-2002)
2 - Air Ferrets Aloft (Jun-2002)
3 - Chasing the Muse (Oct-2002)
4 - Rancher Ferrets on the Range (Feb-2003)
5 - The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed (Mar-2003)
6 - Curious Lives (Oct-2005)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Amazon.com Review "Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most g...

  • Illusions

    In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and spar...

  • There's No Such Place as Far Away

    When she was about to turn five, a little girl named Rae Hansen invited Richard Bach to her birthday party. Though deserts, storms, mountains, and a thousand miles separated them, Rae was confident that her friend would appear. There's No Such Place ...

  • The Bridge Across Forever; A True Love Story

  • Three Books by Richard Bach

  • One

    I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? ...

  • A Gift of Wings

    From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot. With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and ...

  • Stranger to the Ground

    Richard Bach’s first book, Stranger to the Ground is above all else an insight into the character of a man whose great compulsion is to measure himself against storm and night and fear. On the surface it is the tale of a memorable mission of a youn...

  • Biplane

    Biplane is the story of Richard Bach’s solo flight into the American skies -- a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary. Includes an introduction by Ray Bradbury....



  • Nothing by Chance

    In Nothing by Chance, Richard Bach shares the adventure of one magical summer he spent as an old-fashioned barnstormer flying an antique biplane. The journey is another soaring adventure of wonder and insight from the author of Jonathan Livingston Se...

  • Running from Safety: And Other Adventures of the Spirit

  • Running from Safety

    A half-mile up, suspended by nylon wings and the promise of good lift, life hanges on a pledge.  Richard Bach made that pledge, fifty years before, to return to the frightened child he used to be and teach him everything he had learned from living....

  • Out of My Mind

    The author of eleven books, including such classic bestsellers as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, and One, Richard Bach has earned a permanent place in the hearts of readers around the world.  His visionary works have shown millions of read...

  • Air Ferrets Aloft

    Ferret Chronicles - 2

    The story of Stormy Ferret traces her turbulent mission from Seattle to Salinas flying her FDC-4 SkyFreighter through the roughest flight in the history of airway Victor 23, during which she survives by sheer determination, through the intervention o...

  • Rescue Ferrets at Sea

    Ferret Chronicles - 1

    Follows the tale of Bethany Ferret, a kit from humble beginnings who joined the Ferret Rescue Service and rose to command the rescue boat Resolute before embarking on adventures to rescue animals aboard distressed human ships....

  • Chasing the Muse

    Ferret Chronicles - 3

    Presents a tale of a married ferret couple, both aspiring writers, who, in their quest to write the great ferret novel, learn how important it is to be loved by one another, as well as achieving the ultimate success by satisfying one's inner circle....

  • Rancher Ferrets on the Range

    Ferret Chronicles - 4

    The ground thudded and trembled, the echoes again, as Cheyenne Jasmine Ferret cut a half-circle to stop, breathing hard, by Montgomery and his trusted mount Boffin. It was a familiar sight to all who lived beneath Montana's Sweetroot Mountains, these...

  • The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed

    Ferret Chronicles - 5

    Can one animal save the world? So asks Richard Bach, bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Ferret Chronicles. This moving fable about the almost-end of a civilization and the profound issues it raises -- that of war and peace, lif...

  • Curious Lives

    Ferret Chronicles - 6

    Dear Reader:

    Richard Bach is kind and gentle and stubborn as rocks about his writing. His books are visions of why we're here and where we're going, ideas that change lives, and he hides them behind titles so modest that nobody can tell what...



  • Hypnotizing Maria

    This philosophical novel “mines the same territory as The Secret” but is “far richer, raising provocative questions” (Publishers Weekly).Flight instructor Jamie Forbes guides a woman to landing her plane safely after her husband loses conscio...

  • Messiah's Handbook

    In Richard Bach’s best-selling book Illusions, the mysterious hero Donald Shimodaseems to carry the keys to the universe with him as he barnstorms the Midwest ina Travel Air biplane. Shimoda’s secret is a small book, bound in what appears to b...

  • Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student

    37. When his mortal sought understanding, the Master offered ideas, spoken through coincidence, in the language of events and in the adventures of life. . . . 41. Every test, most of them, the Master designed to be a more advanced challenge for his d...

  • Part-Time Angels

    "These are your own sheep," she said, "and you’re destroying them? And you don’t care?" "They’re not sheep, they’re words. They’ve been read. So I’ll just sweep the ashes, make room for other words." "Whisk? All gone?”"That’s what I...

  • The Bridge Across Forever

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Award-Winning Books by Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1974 Nene Award -- Children's Fiction


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Richard Bach has published 24 books.

Richard Bach does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Part-Time Angels, was published in July 2015.

The first book by Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, was published in September 1970.

Yes. Richard Bach has 1 series.
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