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ⓘ About Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca was a battered kid. She grew up in an incredibly violent house where everything that was female and feminine and her gender was hated. Rebecca’s a product of the California public education system from the time she began attending kindergarten until graduate school, she’s a columnist at the Guardian and is a regular contributor to Literary Hub. Rebecca’s also contributed to Harper’s Magazine, where she’s the first woman to write regularly the Easy Chair column in the year 1851, and she contributes to the political blog TomDispatch. Rebecca skipped high school entirely, enrolling in an alternative junior high school in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed General Educational Development tests. After that, she enrolled in junior college.
All Book Series by Rebecca Solnit
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2010
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2016
Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era
Series opener · book 1 of 27 · published 1991
Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
Book 2 of 27 · published 1994
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Book 4 of 27 · published 2001
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
Book 6 of 27 · published 2001
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Book 7 of 27 · published 2003
Motion Studies: time, space and Eadweard Muybridge
Book 8 of 27 · published 2003
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Book 9 of 27 · published 2004
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Book 11 of 27 · published 2007
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
Book 12 of 27 · published 2008
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Book 13 of 27 · published 2009
Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Book 18 of 27 · published 2017
Cinderella Liberator
Book 20 of 27 · published 2019 Co-authored · Arthur Rackham
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Book 21 of 27 · published 2019
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...
Book 25 of 27 · published 2024 Anthology · David Graeber
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Book 26 of 27 · published 2025
The Beginning Comes After the End
Latest in the series · book 27 of 27 · published 2026
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 2011
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
Book 5 of 7 · published 2017
Celebrating People's History
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2020
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Rebecca Solnit?
Rebecca was a battered kid. She grew up in an incredibly violent house where everything that was female and feminine and her gender was hated. Rebecca’s a product of the California public education system from the time she began attending kindergarten until graduate school, she’s a columnist at the Guardian and is a regular contributor to Literary Hub.
Which Rebecca Solnit series should I start with?
The best place to start is the City Atlases series, the earliest of Rebecca Solnit's multi-book series: it opens with Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010) and runs to 3 books across 2010–2016, ending with Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (2016).
How many books has Rebecca Solnit written?
Rebecca Solnit has 38 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1991 and 2026. 3 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the City Atlases series with 3 books — and 35 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Rebecca Solnit's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rebecca Solnit's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are City Atlases (2010–2016, 3 books).
How are Rebecca Solnit's books organised into series?
This guide splits Rebecca Solnit's 38 books into 1 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: City Atlases (3 books, 2010–2016).