John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer is a bestselling and award-winning science fiction, religion, and environment author of more than 50 titles. Michael Greer was born in Bremerton, a Navy town in Washington, and grew up in the suburbs of South Seattle, where he began writing as soon as he could hold a pencil in hand. Since this was hardly a practical career path, he spent a few years working dead-end jobs while trying to become an author.

The best place to start is the Element Encyclopedia series, the earliest of John Michael Greer's multi-book series: it opens with The Element Encyclopedia of 1000 Spells (2004) and runs to 9 books across 2004–2010, ending with The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings (2010). John Michael Greer's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

John Michael Greer has 144 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1940 and 2025. 64 of them belong to 12 named series — the largest being The Modern-Day Witch series with 12 books — and 80 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. John Michael Greer's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Element Encyclopedia (2004–2010, 9 books), The Modern-Day Witch (2011–2024, 12 books) and After Oil (2012–2016, 4 books), plus 9 more.

This guide splits John Michael Greer's 144 books into 12 named series and 80 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Modern-Day Witch (12 books, 2011–2024); The Complete Archdruid Report (10 books, 2017–2018); Element Encyclopedia (9 books, 2004–2010); The Weird of Hali (7 books, 2016–2019); Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror (5 books, 2020–2023), plus 7 further series.