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Elizabeth Day Books in Order

Elizabeth Day has written 13 books, published between 2011 and 2025. The first book is Scissors, Paper, Stone (2011) and the newest is One of Us (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2011–2025
Confirmed
1 of 13 titles
Pages on record
855 in 3 of 13 books
See all 13 books in order Printable Elizabeth Day checklist

Elizabeth Day, born 10 November 1978, is an English novelist, journalist and broadcaster, and the host of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. Day was a feature writer at The Observer from 2007 to 2016, also wrote for You magazine, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024. Books in the catalogue run from Scissors, Paper, Stone (2011) to One of Us (2025) and include The Party (2017), How to Fail (2019), Failosophy (2020) and Magpie (2022). Subjects include family relationships, mothers and sons, wives, patients and coma.

How many Elizabeth Day books are there?

Elizabeth Day has 13 books, released between 2011 and 2025.

Elizabeth Day Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Elizabeth Day 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 Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day (2011)
  2. Cover of Home Fires by Elizabeth Day (2013)
  3. Cover of Paradise City by Elizabeth Day (2015)
  4. Cover of The Party by Elizabeth Day (2017)
  5. Cover of Failosophy by Elizabeth Day (2020)
  1. 1
    Scissors, Paper, Stone2011 · 247 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011247
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  2. 2
    Collisions2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Home Fires2013 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013256
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Babysitting2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Paradise City2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Party2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    How to Fail2019 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Failosophy2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Magpie2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2022BBC National Short Story Award #132022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Failosophy for Teens2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Friendaholic2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    One of Us2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Elizabeth Day 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.

BBC National Short Story Award

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

12 books

12 Elizabeth Day titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Elizabeth Day books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 13 Elizabeth Day books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Elizabeth Day

Start with Scissors, Paper, Stone (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Elizabeth Day book?

One of Us (2025) is the newest Elizabeth Day book released so far.

Is there a new Elizabeth Day book coming?

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

Elizabeth Day at a glance

Still publishing
Elizabeth Day published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Elizabeth Day books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
855 pages across the 3 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Elizabeth Day books, 7 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Elizabeth Day books are about

6 of the 13 Elizabeth Day books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychology is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.