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 200–300 words a minute, covering the 24 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
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.
- 1Steaming to Bamboola1982 · 222 pages · confirmed 2/419822222/4
- 2The White House Mess1986 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419862562/4
- 3Wet Work1991 · 339 pages · confirmed 2/419913392/4
- 4Thank You for Smoking1994 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/419942882/4
- 5Wry Martinis1997 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419972562/4
- 6God Is My Broker1998 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/419981972/4
- 7Little Green Men1999 · 300 pages · confirmed 2/419993002/4
- 8No Way to Treat a First Lady2002 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420022882/4
- 9Washington Schlepped Here2003 · 159 pages · confirmed 2/420031592/4
- 10Florence of Arabia2004 · 253 pages · confirmed 2/420042532/4
- 11Sleepwalk2006 · 150 pages · confirmed 2/420061502/4
- 12Boomsday2007 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420073362/4
- 13Supreme Courtship2008 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/420082852/4
- 14Cynara2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 15Losing Mum and Pup2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 16They Eat Puppies, Don't They?2012 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420123522/4
- 17But Enough About You2014 · 450 pages · confirmed 2/420144502/4
- 18The Relic Master2015 · 380 pages · confirmed 2/420153802/4
- 19The Far Republics2017 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/42017962/4
- 20Chaos Theory2018 · 122 pages · confirmed 2/420181222/4
- 21The Judge Hunter2018 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420183682/4
- 22Cloud Memoir2019 · 164 pages · confirmed 2/420191642/4
- 23Agnostic2019 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/42019802/4
- 24The Long Embrace2020 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/420202502/4
- 25Naming the Lost2020 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/420201802/4
- 26Make Russia Great Again2020 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420202882/4
- 27Has Anyone Seen My Toes?2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
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 books27 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.
- Humor 5 of 22 books
- Political fiction 3 of 22 books
- Satire 3 of 22 books
- Americans 2 of 22 books
- Authors 2 of 22 books
- Historical fiction 2 of 22 books
- Legal stories 2 of 22 books
- United States 2 of 22 books
- Washington (D.C.) 2 of 22 books

















