Bill Konigsberg Books in Order
Bill Konigsberg has written 8 books, published between 2008 and 2022. The first book is Out of the Pocket (2008) and the newest is Destination Unknown (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2008–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,096 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 35–52 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,096 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Bill Konigsberg, born in 1970, is an American author of LGBT novels for younger readers. The catalogue records subjects including gay teenagers, identity, high schools, preparatory and boarding schools, football, dysfunctional families and the Lambda Literary Awards. Openly Straight is the series recorded under Konigsberg's name. Eight books run from Out of the Pocket (2008) to Destination Unknown (2022), among them Openly Straight (2013), The Porcupine of Truth (2015), Honestly Ben (2017), Openly, Honestly (2017), The Music of What Happens (2019) and The Bridge (2020). Konigsberg lives outside Phoenix, Arizona, with his husband.
How many Bill Konigsberg books are there?
Bill Konigsberg has 8 books, released between 2008 and 2022. 3 of them belong to the Openly Straight series.
Bill Konigsberg Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Bill Konigsberg 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.
- 1Out of the Pocket2008 · confirmed 2/42008–2/4
- 220133362/4
- 3The Porcupine of Truth2015 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420153362/4
- 420173522/4
- 52017–2/4
- 6The Music of What Happens2019 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420193522/4
- 7The Bridge2020 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/420204002/4
- 8Destination Unknown2022 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/420223202/4
Bill Konigsberg 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.
Openly Straight in order
3 booksStandalone books
5 books5 Bill Konigsberg titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Bill Konigsberg books in order?
You only need to read Bill Konigsberg books in order within the Openly Straight series, which holds 3 of the 8 Bill Konigsberg books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Bill Konigsberg
Start with Out of the Pocket (2008), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Bill Konigsberg book?
Destination Unknown (2022) is the newest Bill Konigsberg book released so far.
Is there a new Bill Konigsberg book coming?
No next Bill Konigsberg book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Bill Konigsberg at a glance
- Paused
- No new Bill Konigsberg title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Bill Konigsberg books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,096 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 344 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Bill Konigsberg books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Bill Konigsberg books are about
7 of the 8 Bill Konigsberg 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 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 4 of 7 books
- Homosexuality 3 of 7 books
- Gay teenagers 2 of 7 books
- Identity 2 of 7 books
- Preparatory schools 2 of 7 books
- Schools 2 of 7 books