Carl Hiaasen Books in Order
Carl Hiaasen has written 33 books, published between 1981 and 2025. The first book is Powder Burn (1981) and the newest is Fever Beach (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 33
- Published
- 1981–2025
- Confirmed
- 33 of 33 titles
- Pages on record
- 10,724 in 30 of 33 books
- Reading time
- 179–268 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 10,724 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 33 titles with a page count on record.
Carl Hiaasen, born March 12, 1953, is an American journalist and novelist who started out as a newspaper reporter and was writing novels in spare hours by the late 1970s. Hiaasen writes for adults and for middle grade readers. The adult novels are humorous crime thrillers set in Florida, peopled with eccentric and sometimes grotesque characters, satirising American popular culture and often touching on environmentalism and political corruption. Two Hiaasen novels became feature films and two became TV series. The catalogue lists 33 books from Powder Burn (1981) to Fever Beach (2025), with series including Skink, Andrew Yancy and Mick Stranahan.
How many Carl Hiaasen books are there?
Carl Hiaasen has 33 books, released between 1981 and 2025. They include 5 separate series.
Carl Hiaasen Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 33 Carl Hiaasen books in the order they were released, 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.
- 119812794/4
- 219822134/4
- 319842824/4
- 419864164/4
- 519873204/4
- 619894324/4
- 719914964/4
- 819934184/4
- 919953844/4
- 1019974834/4
- 11Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the WorldCarl Hiaasen Non-Fiction #11998 · 83 pages · confirmed 4/41998834/4
- 12Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl HiaasenCarl Hiaasen Non-Fiction #21999 · 471 pages · confirmed 4/419994714/4
- 1320005134/4
- 14Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl HiaasenCarl Hiaasen Non-Fiction #32001 · 424 pages · confirmed 4/420014244/4
- 1520022924/4
- 1620024104/4
- 1720044804/4
- 1820052724/4
- 1920063994/4
- 2020082244/4
- 2120094004/4
- 2220104324/4
- 232012–4/4
- 2420133174/4
- 252013–3/4
- 2620144004/4
- 2720142884/4
- 2820163524/4
- 2920183044/4
- 302018394/4
- 3120205654/4
- 3220233364/4
- 332025–4/4
Carl Hiaasen series in order
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Skink books in order 7 books
- Andrew Yancy books in order 2 books
- Mick Stranahan books in order 1 book
Carl Hiaasen 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.
Carl Hiaasen Standalone Novels
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Carl Hiaasen Non-Fiction
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Juvenile in order
6 booksBlack Lizard Series in order
3 books- 1. Powder Burn
- 2. Trap Line
- 3. A Death in China
Carl Hiaasen Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Carl Hiaasen Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Carl Hiaasen books run from Powder Burn (1981) to Fever Beach (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Carl Hiaasen in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Carl Hiaasen books in order?
You only need to read Carl Hiaasen books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
What order should you read Carl Hiaasen books in?
Read Carl Hiaasen one series at a time, each in its own publication order: Skink starts with Double Whammy (1987), Andrew Yancy starts with Bad Monkey (2013) and Mick Stranahan starts with Skin Tight (1989). The earliest catalogued title overall is Powder Burn (1981).
What is the newest Carl Hiaasen book?
Fever Beach (2025) is the newest Carl Hiaasen book released so far.
Is there a new Carl Hiaasen book coming?
No next Carl Hiaasen 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 Carl Hiaasen has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Carl Hiaasen. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Dilys Award1992Won
Carl Hiaasen at a glance
- Still publishing
- Carl Hiaasen published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Carl Hiaasen books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 10,724 pages across the 30 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 392 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Carl Hiaasen books, 9 of 33, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 32 of the 33 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Carl Hiaasen books are about
31 of the 33 Carl Hiaasen books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 6 of 31. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 6 of 31 books
- Florida 5 of 31 books
- Children's fiction 5 of 31 books
- Humor 4 of 31 books
- Anecdotes 3 of 31 books
- Florida in fiction 3 of 31 books
- Missing persons 3 of 31 books
- Politics and government 3 of 31 books