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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1989
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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Book List in Order: 15 titles




  • A rare and marvellous collection by a master teller of tales, together in one volume for the first time.River of Stone brings to readers an appealing selection of Rudy Wiebe's best and most loved writing -- and draws us into a world that he has mad...



  • A Discovery of Strangers tells of the meeting of two civilizations â€" the first encounter of the nomadic Dene people with Europeans â€" in an imaginative reconstruction of John Franklin’s first map-making expedition in 1819 -- 21 in what is now th...



  • Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe’s imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The man’s name translated into Engli...



  • In 1944, as war rages across Europe and Asia, famine, violence and fear are commonplace. But life appears tranquil in the isolated farming settlement of Wapiti in northern Saskatchewan, where the Mennonite community continues the agricultural lifesty...



  • Christmas in the Prairies means snow and blizzards and bitterly cold winds. But what happens when a warm Chinook wind blows like an unexpected gift down from the Rocky Mountains, turning December into April in the blink of a child's eye? What hap...



  • Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes u...



  • When it began, he was just another stranger without a name. When it ended, he was the most notorious criminal in North America, the object of the largest manhunt in RCMP history.

    This is the story of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper, a sil...



  • Sixteen years later Louis Riel would be dressing himself again ... to be hanged by his neck until he is at last, perfectly, dead. O my God have mercy.

    So begins Rudy Wiebe's powerful portrayal of Louis Riel, the mystic revolutionary of th...






  • 2004 Alberta Children's Book of the Year

    Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award shortlist 2004

    In this lyrical coming-of-age story, Governor General's Award-winner Rudy Wiebe captures the anxiety of a boy who feels power...



  • Infused with the same storytelling style and energy that have made him one of Canada's most widely read and respected novelists, Rudy Wiebe's First and Vital Candle is the powerful story of one man's search for meaning, both in the mean streets o...



  • For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide ...



  • For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer.

    An epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Award-winning author.


    From the eBook edition....





  • From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love. Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rudy Wiebe has published 15 books.

Rudy Wiebe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Come Back, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Rudy Wiebe, Story Makers, was published in November 1989.

No. Rudy Wiebe does not write books in series.