Chris Hadfield Books in Order
Chris Hadfield has written 6 books, published between 2013 and 2025. The first book is An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (2013) and the newest is Final Orbit (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 2013–2025
- Pages on record
- 879 in 4 of 6 books
- Reading time
- 15–22 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 879 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 6 titles with a page count on record.
Chris Hadfield is a retired Canadian astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions and commanded the International Space Station. His six catalogued books start with An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (2013) and You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes (2014), filed under space flight, photographs from space and Canadian biography. The Apollo Murders series carries Hadfield's fiction, running from The Apollo Murders (2021) through The Defector (2023) to Final Orbit (2025).
How many Chris Hadfield books are there?
Chris Hadfield has 6 books, released between 2013 and 2025. They include 2 series and 2 titles listed outside any series.
Chris Hadfield Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 6 Chris Hadfield 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.
- 1An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth2013 · 295 pages · confirmed 1/420132951/4
- 2You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes2014 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/420142001/4
- 32016481/4
- 420213361/4
- 52023–1/4
- 62025–1/4
Chris Hadfield 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.
Apollo Murders in order
3 booksKate Fillion Picture in order
1 bookStandalone books
2 books2 Chris Hadfield titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Chris Hadfield books in order?
You only need to read Chris Hadfield 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 Chris Hadfield
Start with An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Chris Hadfield book?
Final Orbit (2025) is the newest Chris Hadfield book released so far.
Is there a new Chris Hadfield book coming?
No next Chris Hadfield book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Chris Hadfield at a glance
- Still publishing
- Chris Hadfield published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Chris Hadfield books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 879 pages across the 4 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 248 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Chris Hadfield books, 3 of 6, were published in the 2020s.
What the Chris Hadfield books are about
4 of the 6 Chris Hadfield books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: astronauts is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Astronauts 3 of 4 books
- Exploration 2 of 4 books
- Anecdotes 1 of 4 books
- Astronauts, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Bedtime 1 of 4 books
- Canada, biography 1 of 4 books
- Canada, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Children's fiction 1 of 4 books
- Conduct of life 1 of 4 books
- Earth (planet), photographs from space 1 of 4 books
- Emotions & Feelings 1 of 4 books
- Thrillers 1 of 4 books