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 200300 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.

  1. 1
    Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to ThinAllen Zadoff Non-Fiction #12007 · 178 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007178
  2. 2
    Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't HaveAllen Zadoff Standalone Novels #12009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009
  3. 3
    My Life, the Theater, and Other TragediesAllen Zadoff Standalone Novels #22011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011
  4. 4
    Since You Left MeAllen Zadoff Standalone Novels #32012 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012320
  5. 5
    Boy Nobody / I Am the WeaponBoy Nobody / Unknown Assassin #12013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013
  6. 6
    I Am the MissionBoy Nobody / Unknown Assassin #22014 · 421 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014421
  7. 7
    I Am the TraitorBoy Nobody / Unknown Assassin #32015 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015304
  8. 8
    Wild & ChanceWild & Chance #12020 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020256
  9. 9
    The Puppy WarWild & Chance #22021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021
  10. 10
    The Donut Prince of New YorkAllen Zadoff Standalone Novels #42024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024

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 books

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

Boy Nobody / Unknown Assassin in order

3 books
  1. 1. Boy Nobody / I Am the Weapon
  2. 2. I Am the Mission
  3. 3. I Am the Traitor

Wild & Chance in order

2 books
  1. 1. Wild & Chance
  2. 2. The Puppy War

Allen Zadoff Non-Fiction

1 book

1 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.