Allen Zadoff Books in Order
Allen Zadoff has written 10 books, published between 2007 and 2024. The first book is Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin (2007) and the newest is The Donut Prince of New York (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2007–2024
- Confirmed
- 10 of 10 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,479 in 5 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 25–37 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,479 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Allen Zadoff is an American young adult novelist whose Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have (2009) won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in 2010. The Unknown Assassin and Wild & Chance series, together with Boy Nobody, are the works most associated with Zadoff. Four series are listed on the site: Allen Zadoff Standalone Novels, Boy Nobody / Unknown Assassin, Wild & Chance and Allen Zadoff Non-Fiction. The 10 catalogued books run from Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin (2007) to The Donut Prince of New York (2024), with I Am the Mission (2014), I Am the Traitor (2015) and The Puppy War (2021) among them. Subject headings include biography, compulsive eaters, theater, assassins and brainwashing.
How many Allen Zadoff books are there?
Allen Zadoff has 10 books, released between 2007 and 2024. They include 2 separate series.
Allen Zadoff Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Allen Zadoff 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.
- 1Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to ThinAllen Zadoff Non-Fiction #12007 · 178 pages · confirmed 3/420071783/4
- 22009–3/4
- 32011–3/4
- 420123203/4
- 52013–3/4
- 620144213/4
- 720153043/4
- 820202563/4
- 92021–3/4
- 102024–3/4
Allen Zadoff 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.
Allen Zadoff Standalone Novels
4 books4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Boy Nobody / Unknown Assassin in order
3 booksWild & Chance in order
2 booksAllen Zadoff Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Allen Zadoff books in order?
You only need to read Allen Zadoff books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Allen Zadoff
Start with Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin (2007), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Allen Zadoff book?
The Donut Prince of New York (2024) is the newest Allen Zadoff book released so far.
Is there a new Allen Zadoff book coming?
No next Allen Zadoff book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Allen Zadoff at a glance
- Still publishing
- Allen Zadoff published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Allen Zadoff books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,479 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Allen Zadoff books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Allen Zadoff books are about
8 of the 10 Allen Zadoff books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 5 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 5 of 8 books
- Criminals 3 of 8 books
- High schools 3 of 8 books
- Schools 3 of 8 books
- Assassins 2 of 8 books
- Brainwashing 2 of 8 books
- Secret societies 2 of 8 books






