Christopher Buckley Books in Order

Christopher Buckley has written 27 books, published between 1982 and 2022. The first book is Steaming to Bamboola (1982) and the newest is Has Anyone Seen My Toes? (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27
Published
1982–2022
Pages on record
6,059 in 24 of 27 books
Reading time
101–151 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,059 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 24 of 27 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Christopher Buckley, author

Christopher Buckley writes political satire and served as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush. His 27 catalogued books run from Steaming to Bamboola (1982) to Has Anyone Seen My Toes? (2022), taking in The White House Mess (1986), Wet Work (1991), Thank You for Smoking (1994), God Is My Broker (1998), Little Green Men (1999) and Florence of Arabia (2004). Subject headings cover humour, satire and Washington, D.C. No new title has appeared since 2022.

How many Christopher Buckley books are there?

Christopher Buckley has 27 books, released between 1982 and 2022.

Christopher Buckley Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 27 Christopher Buckley 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
    Steaming to Bamboola1982 · 222 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982222
  2. 2
    The White House Mess1986 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986256
  3. 3
    Wet Work1991 · 339 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991339
  4. 4
    Thank You for Smoking1994 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994288
  5. 5
    Wry Martinis1997 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997256
  6. 6
    God Is My Broker1998 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998197
  7. 7
    Little Green Men1999 · 300 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999300
  8. 8
    No Way to Treat a First Lady2002 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002288
  9. 9
    Washington Schlepped Here2003 · 159 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003159
  10. 10
    Florence of Arabia2004 · 253 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004253
  11. 11
    Sleepwalk2006 · 150 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006150
  12. 12
    Boomsday2007 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007336
  13. 13
    Supreme Courtship2008 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008285
  14. 14
    Cynara2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009
  15. 15
    Losing Mum and Pup2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009
  16. 16
    They Eat Puppies, Don't They?2012 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012352
  17. 17
    But Enough About You2014 · 450 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014450
  18. 18
    The Relic Master2015 · 380 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015380
  19. 19
    The Far Republics2017 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201796
  20. 20
    Chaos Theory2018 · 122 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018122
  21. 21
    The Judge Hunter2018 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018368
  22. 22
    Cloud Memoir2019 · 164 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019164
  23. 23
    Agnostic2019 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201980
  24. 24
    The Long Embrace2020 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020250
  25. 25
    Naming the Lost2020 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020180
  26. 26
    Make Russia Great Again2020 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020288
  27. 27
    Has Anyone Seen My Toes?2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022

Christopher Buckley 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.

Standalone books

27 books

27 Christopher Buckley titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Christopher Buckley books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 27 Christopher Buckley books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Christopher Buckley

Start with Steaming to Bamboola (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Christopher Buckley book?

Has Anyone Seen My Toes? (2022) is the newest Christopher Buckley book released so far.

Is there a new Christopher Buckley book coming?

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

Christopher Buckley at a glance

Paused
No new Christopher Buckley title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Christopher Buckley books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
6,059 pages across the 24 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Christopher Buckley books, 8 of 27, were published in the 2010s.

What the Christopher Buckley books are about

22 of the 27 Christopher Buckley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 5 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.