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Allen Drury Books in Order

Allen Drury has written 24 books, published between 1959 and 1998. The first book is Advise and Consent (1959) and the newest is Public Men (1998). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
24
Published
1959–1998
Pages on record
7,351 in 17 of 24 books
Reading time
123–184 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,351 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 24 titles with a page count on record.

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Allen Drury covered the United States Senate as a reporter during the Second World War, watching Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman at close range, and turned that experience into Advise and Consent (1959). The novel took the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was long cited as the definitive Washington tale. Drury's Senate diaries appeared as A Senate Journal 1943-45. The 24 catalogued books run to 1998, built around the Advise and Consent sequence plus the Mark Coffin, University and Amarna series, with politics, Congress and statecraft as the recurring subjects.

How many Allen Drury books are there?

Allen Drury has 24 books, released between 1959 and 1998. They include 4 series and 9 titles listed outside any series.

Allen Drury Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 24 Allen Drury 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 Capable of Honor by Allen Drury, book 3 of the Advise and Consent series (1966)
  2. Cover of Come Nineveh, Come Tyre by Allen Drury, book 5 of the Advise and Consent series (1973)
  3. Cover of The Promise of Joy by Allen Drury, book 6 of the Advise and Consent series (1975)
  4. Cover of A God Against the Gods by Allen Drury, book 1 of the Amarna series (1976)
  5. Cover of Return To Thebes by Allen Drury, book 2 of the Amarna series (1977)
  6. Cover of Mark Coffin U.S.S. by Allen Drury, book 2 of the Mark Coffin series (1979)
  7. Cover of Egypt: The Eternal Smile by Allen Drury (1980)
  8. Cover of The Hill of Summer by Allen Drury, book 3 of the Mark Coffin series (1981)
  9. Cover of Decision by Allen Drury (1983)
  10. Cover of The Roads of Earth by Allen Drury, book 4 of the Mark Coffin series (1984)
  11. Cover of Pentagon by Allen Drury (1986)
  12. Cover of Toward What Bright Glory? by Allen Drury, book 1 of the University series (1990)
  13. Cover of Into What Far Harbor? by Allen Drury, book 2 of the University series (1993)
  14. Cover of A Thing of State by Allen Drury (1995)
  15. Cover of Public Men by Allen Drury, book 3 of the University series (1998)
  1. 2
    A Shade of DifferenceAdvise and Consent #21962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
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  2. 3
    That Summer1965 · confirmed 1/4
    1965–
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  3. 4
    Capable of HonorAdvise and Consent #31966 · 531 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966531
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  4. 5
    A Very Strange Society1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  5. 6
    Preserve & ProtectAdvise and Consent #41968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
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  6. 7
    The Throne of Saturn1970 · 588 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1970588
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  7. 8
    Courage and Hesitation1972 · 317 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972317
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  8. 9
    Come Nineveh, Come TyreAdvise and Consent #51973 · 481 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973481
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  9. 10
    The Promise of JoyAdvise and Consent #61975 · 445 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975445
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  10. 11
    A God Against the GodsAmarna #11976 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976310
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  11. 12
    Anna HastingsMark Coffin #11977 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977300
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  12. 13
    Return To ThebesAmarna #21977 · 319 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977319
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  13. 14
    Mark Coffin U.S.S.Mark Coffin #21979 · confirmed 1/4
    1979–
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  14. 15
    Egypt: The Eternal Smile1980 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980272
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  15. 16
    The Hill of SummerMark Coffin #31981 · 559 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981559
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  16. 17
    Decision1983 · 486 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983486
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  17. 18
    The Roads of EarthMark Coffin #41984 · 462 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984462
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  18. 19
    Pentagon1986 · confirmed 1/4
    1986–
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  19. 20
    The Destiny Makers1988 · 608 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988608
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  20. 21
    Toward What Bright Glory?University #11990 · 527 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990527
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  21. 22
    Into What Far Harbor?University #21993 · 383 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993383
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  22. 23
    A Thing of State1995 · 383 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995383
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  23. 24
    Public MenUniversity #31998 · 380 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998380
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Allen Drury series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Allen Drury 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.

Mark Coffin in order

4 books
  1. 1. Anna Hastings
  2. 2. Mark Coffin U.S.S.
  3. 3. The Hill of Summer
  4. 4. The Roads of Earth

Amarna in order

2 books
  1. 1. A God Against the Gods
  2. 2. Return To Thebes

Standalone books

9 books

9 Allen Drury titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Allen Drury books in order?

You only need to read Allen Drury books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Allen Drury

Start with Toward What Bright Glory? (1990), the first University book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Advise and Consent (1959).

What is the newest Allen Drury book?

Public Men (1998) is the newest Allen Drury book released so far.

Is there a new Allen Drury book coming?

No next Allen Drury 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 Allen Drury has won

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

Allen Drury at a glance

Died
Allen Drury died in 1998, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Allen Drury on record dates from 1998.
Release pace
Allen Drury books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,351 pages across the 17 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 445 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Allen Drury books, 8 of 24, were published in the 1970s.

What the Allen Drury books are about

17 of the 24 Allen Drury books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: politics and government is tagged on 3 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.