Allan Folsom Books in Order

Allan Folsom has written 5 books, published between 1994 and 2009. The first book is The Day After Tomorrow (1994) and the newest is The Hadrian Memorandum (2009). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
1994–2009
Pages on record
2,642 in 4 of 5 books
Reading time
44–66 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,642 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

Allan Folsom was an American screenwriter and novelist who lived from 1941 to 2014. Five books are catalogued, all of them thrillers of unusual length, at a median of 678 pages. The Day After Tomorrow (1994) opens the run, and the John Barron and Nicholas Marten novels follow through The Exile (2004), The Machiavelli Covenant (2006) and The Hadrian Memorandum (2009). Conspiracies, world politics, spies and Catholic clergy recur as subjects.

How many Allan Folsom books are there?

Allan Folsom has 5 books, released between 1994 and 2009. 3 of them belong to the John Barron/Nicholas Marten series.

Allan Folsom Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Allan Folsom 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. 1
    The Day After Tomorrow1994 · 725 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994725
  2. 2
    Day of Confession1998 · 667 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998667
  3. 3
    The ExileJohn Barron/Nicholas Marten #12004 · 690 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004690
  4. 4
    The Machiavelli CovenantJohn Barron/Nicholas Marten #22006 · 560 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006560
  5. 5
    The Hadrian MemorandumJohn Barron/Nicholas Marten #32009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009

Allan Folsom 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.

John Barron/Nicholas Marten in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Exile
  2. 2. The Machiavelli Covenant
  3. 3. The Hadrian Memorandum

Standalone books

2 books

2 Allan Folsom titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Allan Folsom books in order?

You only need to read Allan Folsom books in order within the John Barron/Nicholas Marten series, which holds 3 of the 5 Allan Folsom books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Allan Folsom

Start with The Day After Tomorrow (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Allan Folsom book?

The Hadrian Memorandum (2009) is the newest Allan Folsom book released so far.

Is there a new Allan Folsom book coming?

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

Allan Folsom at a glance

Died
Allan Folsom died in 2014, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Allan Folsom on record dates from 2009.
Release pace
Allan Folsom books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,642 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 678 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Allan Folsom books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2000s.

What the Allan Folsom books are about

All 5 Allan Folsom books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: conspiracies is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.