Eli Cranor Books in Order
Eli Cranor has written 5 books, published between 2020 and 2025. The first book is Books Make Brainz Taste Bad (2020) and the newest is Mississippi Blue 42 (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2020–2025
- Pages on record
- 336 in 1 of 5 books
Eli Cranor played professional football before publishing fiction. Don't Know Tough (2022), his debut novel, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. Four further titles are catalogued: Books Make Brainz Taste Bad (2020), Ozark Dogs (2023), Broiler (2024) and Mississippi Blue 42 (2025). Cranor has published roughly one book a year since 2022.
How many Eli Cranor books are there?
Eli Cranor has 5 books, released between 2020 and 2025.
Eli Cranor Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Eli Cranor 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.
- 1Books Make Brainz Taste Bad2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 2Don't Know Tough2022 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420223361/4
- 3Ozark Dogs2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 4Broiler2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 5Mississippi Blue 422025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Eli Cranor 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
5 books5 Eli Cranor titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Eli Cranor books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Eli Cranor books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Eli Cranor
Start with Books Make Brainz Taste Bad (2020), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Eli Cranor book?
Mississippi Blue 42 (2025) is the newest Eli Cranor book released so far.
Is there a new Eli Cranor book coming?
No next Eli Cranor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Eli Cranor at a glance
- Still publishing
- Eli Cranor published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Eli Cranor books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 336 pages across the 1 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Eli Cranor books, 5 of 5, were published in the 2020s.
What the Eli Cranor books are about
1 of the 5 Eli Cranor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- American literature 1 of 1 books