Donald Firesmith Books in Order
Donald Firesmith has written 16 books, published between 1993 and 2025. The first book is Object Oriented Requirements Analysis And Logical Design (1993) and the newest is The Adventures of Periwinkle Fae (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 11 of the 16 books listed here are in the Donald Firesmith Technical series, which has its own page: Donald Firesmith Technical books in order.
- Books
- 16
- Published
- 1993–2025
- Pages on record
- 3,541 in 10 of 16 books
- Reading time
- 59–89 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,541 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 16 titles with a page count on record.
Donald Firesmith has 16 catalogued books from 1993 to 2025, and the Donald Firesmith Technical series is listed among them. Subject tags cover object-oriented methods and programming, software engineering and computer science. Object Oriented Requirements Analysis And Logical Design (1993) is the first title, followed by Dictionary of Object Technology (1995), OPEN Modeling Language (1998) and The Open Process Framework (2001). Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls (2013) is also listed, along with the Hell Holes series and The Adventures of Periwinkle Fae (2025).
How many Donald Firesmith books are there?
Donald Firesmith has 16 books, released between 1993 and 2025. They include 2 series and 3 titles listed outside any series.
Donald Firesmith Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 16 Donald Firesmith 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.
- 1Object Oriented Requirements Analysis And Logical DesignDonald Firesmith Technical #11993 · 575 pages · confirmed 1/419935751/4
- 2Object-Oriented Development, Methods, Standards and ProceduresDonald Firesmith Technical #21994 · 360 pages · confirmed 1/419943601/4
- 319956031/4
- 419982881/4
- 519982761/4
- 6Documenting a Complete Java Application Using OpenDonald Firesmith Technical #61998 · 404 pages · confirmed 1/419984041/4
- 720013301/4
- 8The Method Framework for Engineering System ArchitecturesDonald Firesmith Technical #82008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 9Security And Safety Requirements For Software Intensive SystemsDonald Firesmith Technical #92011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 10Common System and Software Testing PitfallsDonald Firesmith Technical #102013 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420133201/4
- 1120151661/4
- 1220162191/4
- 13The Secrets of Hawthorne House2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 142019–1/4
- 15Future Dreams and Nightmares2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 16The Adventures of Periwinkle Fae2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Donald Firesmith series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Donald Firesmith 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.
Hell Holes in order
2 booksStandalone books
3 books3 Donald Firesmith titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Donald Firesmith books in order?
You only need to read Donald Firesmith books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Donald Firesmith
Start with Object Oriented Requirements Analysis And Logical Design (1993), the first Donald Firesmith Technical book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Donald Firesmith book?
The Adventures of Periwinkle Fae (2025) is the newest Donald Firesmith book released so far.
Is there a new Donald Firesmith book coming?
No next Donald Firesmith book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Donald Firesmith at a glance
- Still publishing
- Donald Firesmith published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Donald Firesmith books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,541 pages across the 10 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 325 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Donald Firesmith books, 6 of 16, were published in the 2010s.
What the Donald Firesmith books are about
9 of the 16 Donald Firesmith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: object-oriented methods (computer science) is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Object-oriented methods (Computer science) 4 of 9 books
- Computer science 2 of 9 books
- Computer software 2 of 9 books
- Software engineering 2 of 9 books