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Douglas Kennedy Books in Order

Douglas Kennedy has written 21 books, published between 1988 and 2021. The first book is Beyond The Pyramids (1988) and the newest is Afraid of the Light (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1988–2021
Pages on record
6,341 in 17 of 21 books
Reading time
106–159 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,341 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Douglas Kennedy, author

Douglas Kennedy, born in 1955, is an American novelist. The Pursuit of Happiness, The Big Picture, The Moment and Leaving the World are the international bestsellers among the fiction. Travel writing opens the catalogue, Beyond The Pyramids (1988), In God's Country (1989) and Chasing Mammon (1992), before the novels take over with The Dead Heart (1995). Twenty-one titles are catalogued through Afraid of the Light (2021), with marriage, journalists and missing persons among the recurring subjects.

How many Douglas Kennedy books are there?

Douglas Kennedy has 21 books, released between 1988 and 2021.

Douglas Kennedy Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Douglas Kennedy 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 In God's Country by Douglas Kennedy (1989)
  2. Cover of Chasing Mammon by Douglas Kennedy (1992)
  3. Cover of The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy (1995)
  4. Cover of The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy (1997)
  5. Cover of The Job by Douglas Kennedy (1998)
  6. Cover of The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy (2001)
  7. Cover of State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy (2005)
  8. Cover of Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy (2009)
  9. Cover of The Blue Hour by Douglas Kennedy (2015)
  10. Cover of The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy (2015)
  11. Cover of The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy (2019)
  12. Cover of Isabelle in the Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy (2020)
  1. 1
    Beyond The Pyramids1988 · 232 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988232
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  2. 2
    In God's Country1989 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989240
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  3. 3
    Chasing Mammon1992 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992224
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  4. 4
    The Dead Heart1995 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995208
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  5. 5
    The Big Picture1997 · 374 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997374
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  6. 6
    The Job1998 · 387 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998387
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  7. 7
    The Pursuit of Happiness2001 · 519 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001519
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  8. 8
    Temptation2002 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002307
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  9. 9
    A Special Relationship2003 · 421 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003421
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  10. 10
    State of the Union2005 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005432
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  11. 11
    The Woman in the Fifth2007 · 386 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007386
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  12. 12
    Leaving the World2009 · 451 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009451
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  13. 13
    The Christmas Ring2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  14. 14
    The Moment2011 · 535 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011535
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  15. 15
    Five Days2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  16. 16
    The Mistake2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  17. 17
    The Blue Hour2015 · 356 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015356
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  18. 18
    The Heat of Betrayal2015 · 325 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015325
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  19. 19
    The Great Wide Open2019 · 592 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019592
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  20. 20
    Isabelle in the Afternoon2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020352
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  21. 21
    Afraid of the Light2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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Douglas Kennedy 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.

Standalone books

21 books

21 Douglas Kennedy titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Douglas Kennedy books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 21 Douglas Kennedy books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Douglas Kennedy

Start with Beyond The Pyramids (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Douglas Kennedy book?

Afraid of the Light (2021) is the newest Douglas Kennedy book released so far.

Is there a new Douglas Kennedy book coming?

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

Douglas Kennedy at a glance

Paused
No new Douglas Kennedy title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Douglas Kennedy books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
6,341 pages across the 17 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 374 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Douglas Kennedy books, 7 of 21, were published in the 2010s.

What the Douglas Kennedy books are about

17 of the 21 Douglas Kennedy books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: americans is tagged on 3 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.