Craig Brown Books in Order
Craig Brown has written 25 books, published between 1981 and 2024. The first book is The Dirty Bits (1981) and the newest is A Voyage Around the Queen (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 1981–2024
- Pages on record
- 5,645 in 21 of 25 books
- Reading time
- 94–141 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,645 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 21 of 25 titles with a page count on record.
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown, born 23 May 1957, is an English critic and satirist. Brown is best known for sketch writing on Parliament, and for humorous articles and parodies written for The Times, the Daily Mail and Private Eye. The catalogue holds 25 books, from The Dirty Bits (1981) to A Voyage Around the Queen (2024). Recorded subjects include humour, English satire, anecdotes, celebrities, princes, and kings and rulers. Titles include The Book of Royal Lists (1982), The Marsh Marlowe Letters (1984), A Year Inside (1989) and Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (1994).
How many Craig Brown books are there?
Craig Brown has 25 books, released between 1981 and 2024.
Craig Brown Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 25 Craig Brown 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.
- 1The Dirty Bits1981 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/419811601/4
- 2The Book of Royal Lists1982 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/419822881/4
- 3The Book of Sports Lists1983 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/419832261/4
- 4The Marsh Marlowe Letters1984 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/419841561/4
- 5Fame, Sex, Money, Power1987 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/419871591/4
- 6A Year Inside1989 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/419891601/4
- 7The Book of Royal Trivia1990 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/419902881/4
- 8Welcome To My Worlds!: The Dread Decades of Wallace Arnold1993 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/419932081/4
- 9The Hounding of John Thomas1994 · 202 pages · confirmed 1/419942021/4
- 10Craig Brown's Greatest Hits1994 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/419942881/4
- 11"Private Eye" Book of Craig Brown Parodies1995 · 94 pages · confirmed 1/41995941/4
- 1219991761/4
- 13The Craig Brown's Omnibus1999 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/419991921/4
- 14The Little Book of Chaos1999 · confirmed 1/41999–1/4
- 15Hug Me While I Weep for I Weep for the World1999 · confirmed 1/41999–1/4
- 16This is Craig Brown2003 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/420034481/4
- 17Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends'2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420042401/4
- 181966 and All That2005 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/420051281/4
- 19The Tony Years2006 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/420064481/4
- 20The Lost Diaries2010 · 404 pages · confirmed 1/420104041/4
- 21Hello Goodbye Hello / One on One2012 · 356 pages · confirmed 1/420123561/4
- 22Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret / Ma'am Darling2017 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420174321/4
- 23One Two Three Four / 150 Glimpses of the Beatles2020 · 592 pages · confirmed 1/420205921/4
- 24Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 25A Voyage Around the Queen2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Craig Brown 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.
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24 books24 Craig Brown titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Craig Brown books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 25 Craig Brown books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Craig Brown
Start with The Dirty Bits (1981), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Craig Brown book?
A Voyage Around the Queen (2024) is the newest Craig Brown book released so far.
Is there a new Craig Brown book coming?
No next Craig Brown book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Craig Brown at a glance
- Still publishing
- Craig Brown published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Craig Brown books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 5,645 pages across the 21 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 226 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Craig Brown books, 9 of 25, were published in the 1990s.
What the Craig Brown books are about
19 of the 25 Craig Brown 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 10 of 19. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 10 of 19 books
- English Satire 5 of 19 books
- Anecdotes 2 of 19 books
- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire 2 of 19 books
- Celebrities 2 of 19 books
- English wit and humor 2 of 19 books