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Catherine Gilbert Murdock Books in Order

Catherine Gilbert Murdock has written 9 books, published between 1998 and 2021. The first book is Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (1998) and the newest is Da Vinci's Cat (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1998–2021
Total pages
2,528 across 9 books
Reading time
42–63 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,528 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

See all 9 books in order Printable Catherine Gilbert Murdock checklist

Born in 1966, Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author of children's books, young adult novels and non-fiction. That range shows in a catalogue of nine titles: the study Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (1998) at one end, and fiction from Dairy Queen (2006) to Da Vinci's Cat (2021) at the other. The Off Season (2007), Princess Ben (2008), Front and Center (2009), Wisdom's Kiss (2011), Heaven Is Paved with Oreos (2013) and The Book of Boy (2018) fill the span. Dairy Queen is the series recorded under the name, and subjects list football, farm life, princesses, time travel and pilgrimages.

How many Catherine Gilbert Murdock books are there?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock has 9 books, released between 1998 and 2021. 4 of them belong to the Dairy Queen series.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Catherine Gilbert Murdock 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 Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (1998)
  2. Cover of Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, book 1 of the Dairy Queen series (2006)
  3. Cover of The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, book 2 of the Dairy Queen series (2007)
  4. Cover of Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008)
  5. Cover of Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, book 3 of the Dairy Queen series (2009)
  6. Cover of Wisdom's Kiss by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2011)
  7. Cover of Heaven Is Paved with Oreos by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, book 4 of the Dairy Queen series (2013)
  8. Cover of The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2018)
  9. Cover of Da Vinci's Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2021)
  1. 1
    Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-19401998 · 264 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998264
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  2. 2
    Dairy QueenDairy Queen #12006 · 275 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006275
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  3. 3
    The Off SeasonDairy Queen #22007 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007288
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  4. 4
    Princess Ben2008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008368
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  5. 5
    Front and CenterDairy Queen #32009 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009256
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  6. 6
    Wisdom's Kiss2011 · 284 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011284
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  7. 7
    Heaven Is Paved with OreosDairy Queen #42013 · 201 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013201
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  8. 8
    The Book of Boy2018 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018304
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  9. 9
    Da Vinci's Cat2021 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021288
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock 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.

Dairy Queen in order

4 books
  1. 1. Dairy Queen
  2. 2. The Off Season
  3. 3. Front and Center
  4. 4. Heaven Is Paved with Oreos

Standalone books

5 books

5 Catherine Gilbert Murdock titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Catherine Gilbert Murdock books in order?

You only need to read Catherine Gilbert Murdock books in order within the Dairy Queen series, which holds 4 of the 9 Catherine Gilbert Murdock books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Start with Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Catherine Gilbert Murdock book?

Da Vinci's Cat (2021) is the newest Catherine Gilbert Murdock book released so far.

Is there a new Catherine Gilbert Murdock book coming?

No next Catherine Gilbert Murdock book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock at a glance

Paused
No new Catherine Gilbert Murdock title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Catherine Gilbert Murdock books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,528 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Catherine Gilbert Murdock books, 4 of 9, were published in the 2000s.

What the Catherine Gilbert Murdock books are about

All 9 Catherine Gilbert Murdock 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 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.