Dan Jenkins Books in Order
Dan Jenkins has written 25 books, published between 1970 and 2018. The first book is Saturday's America (1970) and the newest is Sports Makes You Type Faster (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 1970–2018
- Pages on record
- 6,041 in 21 of 25 books
- Reading time
- 101–151 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,041 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.
Golf and football supplied Dan Jenkins with most of his material, handled as sports humour and sportswriting. Saturday's America (1970) opens the catalogue, Semi-Tough (1972) and Life its Ownself (1984) take up football, and Dead Solid Perfect (1974) and Fairways and Greens (1980) take up golf. The Bobby Joe Grooves series sits inside the run. Twenty-five books date from 1970 to 2018, at a median 272 pages, mixing novels with anecdote collections and sports history.
How many Dan Jenkins books are there?
Dan Jenkins has 25 books, released between 1970 and 2018. 2 of them belong to the Bobby Joe Grooves series.
Dan Jenkins Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 25 Dan Jenkins 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.
- 1Saturday's America1970 · confirmed 2/41970–2/4
- 2Semi-Tough1972 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/419723202/4
- 3Dead Solid Perfect1974 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/419742422/4
- 4Limo1976 · 350 pages · confirmed 2/419763502/4
- 5Fairways and Greens1980 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/419802722/4
- 6Baja Oklahoma1982 · 303 pages · confirmed 2/419823032/4
- 7Life its Ownself1984 · 349 pages · confirmed 2/419843492/4
- 8American Football1986 · 175 pages · confirmed 2/419861752/4
- 9The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate1988 · 313 pages · confirmed 2/419883132/4
- 10Fast Copy1988 · 401 pages · confirmed 2/419884012/4
- 11You Call it Sports, but I Say it's a Jungle Out There1989 · confirmed 2/41989–2/4
- 12You Gotta Play Hurt1991 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/419914002/4
- 13Bubba Talks1993 · 149 pages · confirmed 2/419931492/4
- 14The Best American Sports Writing 19951995 · 356 pages · confirmed 2/419953562/4
- 15Rude Behavior1998 · 544 pages · confirmed 2/419985442/4
- 16I'll Tell You One Thing1999 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/419991922/4
- 17The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up ArtistBobby Joe Grooves #12001 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/420012722/4
- 1820052562/4
- 19Texas Christian University Football Vault2008 · 140 pages · confirmed 2/420081402/4
- 20The Franchise Babe2008 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/420082402/4
- 21Jenkins at the Majors2009 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420093522/4
- 22His Ownself2014 · confirmed 2/42014–2/4
- 23Unplayable Lies2015 · 239 pages · confirmed 2/420152392/4
- 24Stick a Fork in Me2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 25Sports Makes You Type Faster2018 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/420181762/4
Dan Jenkins 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.
Bobby Joe Grooves in order
2 booksStandalone books
23 books23 Dan Jenkins titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dan Jenkins books in order?
You only need to read Dan Jenkins books in order within the Bobby Joe Grooves series, which holds 2 of the 25 Dan Jenkins books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Dan Jenkins
Start with Saturday's America (1970), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dan Jenkins book?
Sports Makes You Type Faster (2018) is the newest Dan Jenkins book released so far.
Is there a new Dan Jenkins book coming?
No next Dan Jenkins book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dan Jenkins at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Dan Jenkins title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Dan Jenkins books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 6,041 pages across the 21 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 272 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dan Jenkins books, 7 of 25, were published in the 1980s.
What the Dan Jenkins books are about
24 of the 25 Dan Jenkins books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: sports is tagged on 7 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.