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Adam Gopnik Books in Order

Adam Gopnik has written 17 books, published between 2000 and 2024. The first book is Paris to the Moon (2000) and the newest is All That Happiness Is (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
2000–2024
Confirmed
17 of 17 titles
Pages on record
2,901 in 9 of 17 books
Reading time
48–73 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,901 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Adam Gopnik, born August 24, 1956, is an American essayist and writer who grew up in Montreal, Canada. Gopnik is best known as a staff writer at The New Yorker, contributing nonfiction, fiction, memoir and criticism since 1986. In 2020 the essay The Driver's Seat was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction on English-language syllabi. The catalogue runs from Paris to the Moon (2000) to All That Happiness Is (2024), with The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children's Gate (2006) and The Table Comes First (2011) among the titles.

How many Adam Gopnik books are there?

Adam Gopnik has 17 books, released between 2000 and 2024. 1 of them belong to the Adam Gopnik series.

Adam Gopnik Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Adam Gopnik books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik, book 1 of the Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction series (2000)
  2. Cover of Americans in Paris by Adam Gopnik, book 1 of the Adam Gopnik series (2004)
  3. Cover of The King in the Window by Adam Gopnik, book 1 of the Adam Gopnik Standalone Novels series (2005)
  4. Cover of Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik, book 3 of the Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction series (2006)
  5. Cover of Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age by Adam Gopnik (2009)
  6. Cover of The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik, book 2 of the Adam Gopnik Standalone Novels series (2010)
  7. Cover of The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik (2011)
  8. Cover of Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik, book 7 of the Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction series (2011)
  9. Cover of A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik, book 11 of the Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction series (2019)
  10. Cover of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik, book 13 of the Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction series (2023)
  1. 1
    Paris to the MoonAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #12000 · 342 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000342
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  2. 2
    LacombeAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #22001 · confirmed 3/4
    2001–
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  3. 3
    Americans in ParisAdam Gopnik #12004 · 613 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004613
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  4. 4
    The King in the WindowAdam Gopnik Standalone Novels #12005 · 410 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005410
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  5. 5
    Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New YorkAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #32006 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006336
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  6. 6
    The Museum TodayAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #42008 · 48 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200848
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern AgeAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #52009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  8. 8
    The Steps Across the WaterAdam Gopnik Standalone Novels #22010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  9. 9
    The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of FoodAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #62011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  10. 10
    Winter: Five Windows on the SeasonAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #72011 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011256
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  11. 11
    New York Looks Best in FallAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #82016 · confirmed 3/4
    2016–
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  12. 12
    At the Strangers' GateAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #92017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
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  13. 13
    In Mid-AirAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #102018 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018368
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  14. 14
    A Thousand Small SanitiesAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #112019 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    S. J. Perelman: WritingsAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #122021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  16. 16
    The Real Work: On the Mystery of MasteryAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #132023 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2023256
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  17. 17
    All That Happiness IsAdam Gopnik Non-Fiction #142024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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Adam Gopnik books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Adam Gopnik Non-Fiction

14 books

14 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Adam Gopnik Standalone Novels

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Adam Gopnik in order

1 book
  1. 1. Americans in Paris

Do you have to read Adam Gopnik books in order?

You only need to read Adam Gopnik books in order within the Adam Gopnik series, which holds 1 of the 17 Adam Gopnik books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Adam Gopnik

Start with Paris to the Moon (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Adam Gopnik book?

All That Happiness Is (2024) is the newest Adam Gopnik book released so far.

Is there a new Adam Gopnik book coming?

No next Adam Gopnik book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Adam Gopnik at a glance

Still publishing
Adam Gopnik published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Adam Gopnik books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,901 pages across the 9 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Adam Gopnik books, 7 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Adam Gopnik books are about

14 of the 17 Adam Gopnik books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: adventure stories is tagged on 2 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.