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Daniel Handler Books in Order

Daniel Handler has written 18 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is The Basic Eight (1999) and the newest is And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Daniel Handler also publishes as Lemony Snicket books in order.

Books
18
Published
1999–2024
Confirmed
18 of 18 titles
Pages on record
3,829 in 14 of 18 books
Reading time
64–96 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,829 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Daniel Handler, author

Under the pen name Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler wrote the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions. Handler is an American writer, musician and television producer born February 28, 1970. A Series of Unfortunate Events became a 2004 film and a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019. The Basic Eight (1999), a satirical first book, was turned down by many publishers over its dark subject matter. The catalogue lists 18 books through And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024), including The Wide Window (2000) and The Grim Grotto (2004).

How many Daniel Handler books are there?

Daniel Handler has 18 books, released between 1999 and 2024. 1 of them belong to the Lemony Snicket series.

Daniel Handler Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Daniel Handler 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. Cover of The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler, book 1 of the Daniel Handler Standalone Novels series (1999)
  2. Cover of Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler, book 2 of the Daniel Handler Standalone Novels series (2000)
  3. Cover of The Wide Window by Daniel Handler, book 3 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2000)
  4. Cover of The Austere Academy by Daniel Handler, book 5 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2000)
  5. Cover of The Ersatz Elevator by Daniel Handler, book 6 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2001)
  6. Cover of The Vile Village by Daniel Handler, book 7 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2001)
  7. Cover of The Carnivorous Carnival by Daniel Handler, book 9 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2002)
  8. Cover of The Slippery Slope by Daniel Handler, book 10 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2003)
  9. Cover of The Grim Grotto by Daniel Handler, book 11 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2004)
  10. Cover of Adverbs by Daniel Handler, book 3 of the Daniel Handler Standalone Novels series (2006)
  11. Cover of The End by Daniel Handler, book 13 of the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series (2006)
  12. Cover of Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, book 5 of the Daniel Handler Standalone Novels series (2011)
  13. Cover of Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler, book 8 of the Daniel Handler Standalone Novels series (2019)
  1. 1
    The Basic EightDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #11999 · 380 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999380
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  2. 2
    Watch Your MouthDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #22000 · 232 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000232
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Wide WindowA Series Of Unfortunate Events #32000 · 214 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000214
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Austere AcademyA Series Of Unfortunate Events #52000 · 221 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000221
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Ersatz ElevatorA Series Of Unfortunate Events #62001 · 259 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001259
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Vile VillageA Series Of Unfortunate Events #72001 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001256
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    The Carnivorous CarnivalA Series Of Unfortunate Events #92002 · 286 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2002286
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Slippery SlopeA Series Of Unfortunate Events #102003 · 337 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2003337
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Behind the Scenes with Count OlafA Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion #32004 · confirmed 3/4
    2004–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Grim GrottoA Series Of Unfortunate Events #112004 · 323 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004323
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    AdverbsDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #32006 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    The EndA Series Of Unfortunate Events #132006 · 324 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006324
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Why We Broke UpDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #52011 · 354 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011354
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    We Are PiratesDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #62015 · confirmed 3/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    All the Dirty PartsDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #72017 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017144
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    Read Something Else: Collected & Dubious Wit & Wisdom of Lemony SnicketLemony Snicket #12019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  17. 17
    Bottle GroveDaniel Handler Standalone Novels #82019 · 227 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019227
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  18. 18
    And Then? And Then? What Else?Daniel Handler Standalone Novels #92024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Daniel Handler books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.

Daniel Handler Standalone Novels

8 books

8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

A Series Of Unfortunate Events books in order

8 books by Daniel Handler
  1. 3. The Wide Window
  2. 5. The Austere Academy
  3. 6. The Ersatz Elevator
  4. 7. The Vile Village
  5. 9. The Carnivorous Carnival
  6. 10. The Slippery Slope
  7. 11. The Grim Grotto
  8. 13. The End

Lemony Snicket in order

1 book
  1. 1. Read Something Else: Collected & Dubious Wit & Wisdom of Lemony Snicket

A Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion in order

1 book
  1. 3. Behind the Scenes with Count Olaf

Do you have to read Daniel Handler books in order?

You only need to read Daniel Handler books in order within the Lemony Snicket series, which holds 1 of the 18 Daniel Handler books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Daniel Handler

Start with The Basic Eight (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Daniel Handler book?

And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024) is the newest Daniel Handler book released so far.

Is there a new Daniel Handler book coming?

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

Awards Daniel Handler has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 1 nomination for Daniel Handler. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Daniel Handler at a glance

Still publishing
Daniel Handler published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Daniel Handler books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,829 pages across the 14 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 266 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Daniel Handler books, 11 of 18, were published in the 2000s.

What the Daniel Handler books are about

16 of the 18 Daniel Handler 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 9 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.