Dave Barry Books in Order
Dave Barry has written 56 books, published between 1983 and 2025. The first book is The Taming of the Screw (1983) and the newest is Class Clown (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 56
- Published
- 1983–2025
- Confirmed
- 56 of 56 titles
- Pages on record
- 8,112 in 37 of 56 books
- Reading time
- 135–203 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,112 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 37 of 56 titles with a page count on record.
Dave Barry writes humour, most of it non-fiction. The catalogue holds 56 titles, from The Taming of the Screw (1983) through Dave Barry's Bad Habits (1985), Dave Barry Slept Here (1989), Dave Barry Turns Forty (1990) and Dave Barry Talks Back (1991) to Class Clown in 2025. The Peter and the Starcatchers and Never Land children's books, written with Ridley Pearson, sit beside the essays.
How many Dave Barry books are there?
Dave Barry has 56 books, released between 1983 and 2025. They include 5 separate series.
Dave Barry Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 56 Dave Barry 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.
- 11983903/4
- 21984903/4
- 3Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're DeadDave Barry Non-Fiction #31985 · 81 pages · confirmed 3/41985813/4
- 4Dave Barry's Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-Free BookDave Barry Non-Fiction #41985 · 291 pages · confirmed 3/419852913/4
- 51987863/4
- 619882893/4
- 719881963/4
- 8Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United StatesDave Barry Non-Fiction #81989 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/419892563/4
- 919901793/4
- 1019912853/4
- 11Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever NeedDave Barry Non-Fiction #111991 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/419911923/4
- 1219922243/4
- 1319942443/4
- 141994–3/4
- 151994–3/4
- 161995–3/4
- 1719962153/4
- 1819971603/4
- 1919972723/4
- 201997–3/4
- 2119982193/4
- 2219993173/4
- 23Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting DownDave Barry Non-Fiction #212000 · 229 pages · confirmed 3/420002293/4
- 24The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is BeerDave Barry Non-Fiction #222001 · 112 pages · confirmed 3/420011123/4
- 25My Teenage Son's Goal In Life Is To Make Me Feel 3,500 Years OldDave Barry Non-Fiction #232001 · 112 pages · confirmed 3/420011123/4
- 2620011803/4
- 2720022873/4
- 28Boogers are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual JournalismDave Barry Non-Fiction #252003 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/420032563/4
- 292004–3/4
- 302006–3/4
- 3120065573/4
- 32The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle DogDave Barry Standalone Novels #32006 · 116 pages · confirmed 3/420061163/4
- 33Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Why is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?Dave Barry Non-Fiction #262006 · confirmed 3/42006–3/4
- 3420071663/4
- 352007–3/4
- 3620071283/4
- 372007–3/4
- 382008–3/4
- 392008–3/4
- 402009–3/4
- 412010–3/4
- 422011–3/4
- 4320123203/4
- 4420133413/4
- 452014–3/4
- 4620152143/4
- 4720152253/4
- 4820162503/4
- 4920162293/4
- 502017–3/4
- 512017–3/4
- 5220171443/4
- 5320192403/4
- 542019–3/4
- 5520233203/4
- 562025–3/4
Dave Barry series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Dave Barry 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.
Dave Barry Non-Fiction
36 books36 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Dave Barry Standalone Novels
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Never Land in order
3 booksClass Trip/The Worst in order
2 booksTroll Target Series in order
1 bookRidley Pearson Children's Books with Ridley Pearson in order
1 bookDave Barry Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Dave Barry books run from The Taming of the Screw (1983) to Class Clown (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Dave Barry in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Dave Barry books in order?
You only need to read Dave Barry books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Dave Barry
Start with Peter and the Starcatchers (2004), the first Peter and the Starcatchers book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Taming of the Screw (1983).
What is the newest Dave Barry book?
Class Clown (2025) is the newest Dave Barry book released so far.
Is there a new Dave Barry book coming?
No next Dave Barry 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 Dave Barry has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Dave Barry. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Pulitzer Prize for Commentary1988Won
Dave Barry at a glance
- Still publishing
- Dave Barry published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Dave Barry books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 8,112 pages across the 37 of 56 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dave Barry books, 18 of 56, were published in the 2000s.
What the Dave Barry books are about
50 of the 56 Dave Barry 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 28 of 50. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 28 of 50 books
- Children's fiction 9 of 50 books
- Adventure stories 6 of 50 books
- Characters in literature 6 of 50 books
- Humor (Nonfiction) 5 of 50 books
- Humor, form, essays 5 of 50 books
- Nonfiction 5 of 50 books
- HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family 4 of 50 books
- Peter pan (fictitious character) 4 of 50 books