David Nicholls Books in Order
David Nicholls has written 7 books, published between 2003 and 2024. The first book is Starter for Ten / A Question for Attraction (2003) and the newest is You Are Here (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 2003–2024
- Confirmed
- 7 of 7 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,989 in 5 of 7 books
- Reading time
- 33–50 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,989 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.
David Nicholls, born 30 November 1966, is a British novelist and screenwriter who began as an actor after college. As a screenwriter, Nicholls created the television series Rescue Me (2002) and adapted novels, plays and memoirs. The catalogue holds 7 books from 2003 to 2024, among them Starter for Ten (2003), The Understudy (2005), One Day (2009), Us (2014), Sweet Sorrow (2019) and You Are Here (2024). Subjects include actors, married people, fathers and sons, college students and the motion picture industry, with humour also tagged.
How many David Nicholls books are there?
David Nicholls has 7 books, released between 2003 and 2024.
David Nicholls Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 David Nicholls 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.
- 1Starter for Ten / A Question for AttractionDavid Nicholls Standalone Novels #12003 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/420033523/4
- 220053683/4
- 320094373/4
- 42012–3/4
- 520144163/4
- 620194163/4
- 72024–3/4
David Nicholls 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.
David Nicholls Standalone Novels
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Book Slam Annual in order
1 bookDo you have to read David Nicholls books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 7 David Nicholls books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with David Nicholls
Start with Starter for Ten / A Question for Attraction (2003), the earliest published title.
What is the newest David Nicholls book?
You Are Here (2024) is the newest David Nicholls book released so far.
Is there a new David Nicholls book coming?
No next David Nicholls book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for David Nicholls
Wikidata records 1 nomination for David Nicholls. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Booker Prize2014Shortlistedfor Us
David Nicholls at a glance
- Still publishing
- David Nicholls published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- David Nicholls books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,989 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 416 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most David Nicholls books, 3 of 7, were published in the 2010s.
What the David Nicholls books are about
5 of the 7 David Nicholls books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: actors and actresses is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Actors and actresses 2 of 5 books
- Englisch 2 of 5 books
- Fathers and sons 2 of 5 books
- Humor 2 of 5 books
- Marriage 2 of 5 books
- Roman 2 of 5 books
- College students 1 of 5 books
- Coming of age 1 of 5 books
- English literature 1 of 5 books
- Family life 1 of 5 books
- Freundschaft 1 of 5 books
- Friendship 1 of 5 books