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Al Roker Books in Order

Al Roker has written 15 books, published between 2000 and 2024. The first book is Don't Make Me Stop This Car! (2000) and the newest is Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2000–2024
Pages on record
1,734 in 7 of 15 books
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Photo of Al Roker, author of the Billy Blessing series

Al Roker, born in 1954, is an American weather presenter and journalist, the weather anchor on NBC's Today. His 15 books divide three ways: family humour and parenting in Don't Make Me Stop This Car! (2000) and Big Shoes (2005), cookbooks including Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue (2002), and the Billy Blessing mysteries, which put a celebrity chef into murder cases beginning with The Morning Show Murders (2009). Recipes to Live By followed in 2024.

How many Al Roker books are there?

Al Roker has 15 books, released between 2000 and 2024. 4 of them belong to the Billy Blessing series.

Al Roker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Al Roker 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 Don't Make Me Stop This Car! by Al Roker (2000)
  2. Cover of Al Roker's Hassle-Free Holiday Cookbook by Al Roker (2003)
  3. Cover of Big Shoes by Al Roker (2005)
  4. Cover of The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker, book 1 of the Billy Blessing series (2009)
  5. Cover of The Talk Show Murders by Al Roker, book 3 of the Billy Blessing series (2011)
  6. Cover of The Storm of the Century by Al Roker (2015)
  7. Cover of Ruthless Tide by Al Roker (2018)
  1. 1
    Don't Make Me Stop This Car!2000 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000256
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  2. 2
    Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue2002 · confirmed 2/4
    2002–
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  3. 3
    Al Roker's Hassle-Free Holiday Cookbook2003 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003304
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  4. 4
    Big Shoes2005 · 195 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005195
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  5. 5
    The Morning Show MurdersBilly Blessing #12009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  6. 6
    The Midnight Show MurdersBilly Blessing #22010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  7. 7
    The Talk Show MurdersBilly Blessing #32011 · 290 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011290
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  8. 8
    Never Goin' Back2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  9. 9
    The Storm of the Century2015 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015336
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  10. 10
    Been There, Done That2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  11. 11
    Al Roker's Extreme Weather2017 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201748
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  12. 12
    Ruthless Tide2018 · 305 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018305
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  13. 13
    You Look So Much Better in Person2020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  14. 14
    Murder on DemandBilly Blessing #42024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  15. 15
    Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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Al Roker 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.

Billy Blessing in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Morning Show Murders
  2. 2. The Midnight Show Murders
  3. 3. The Talk Show Murders
  4. 4. Murder on Demand

Standalone books

11 books

11 Al Roker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Al Roker books in order?

You only need to read Al Roker books in order within the Billy Blessing series, which holds 4 of the 15 Al Roker books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Al Roker

Start with Don't Make Me Stop This Car! (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Al Roker book?

Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By (2024) is the newest Al Roker book released so far.

Is there a new Al Roker book coming?

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

Awards Al Roker has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Al Roker. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award1991Won

Al Roker at a glance

Still publishing
Al Roker published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Al Roker books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,734 pages across the 7 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 290 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Al Roker books, 7 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Al Roker books are about

9 of the 15 Al Roker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fatherhood is tagged on 2 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Fatherhood 2 of 9 books
  • Fathers 2 of 9 books
  • History 2 of 9 books