Elliot Ackerman Books in Order
Elliot Ackerman has written 9 books, published between 2015 and 2025. The first book is Green on Blue (2015) and the newest is Sheepdogs (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2015–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,525 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 25–38 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,525 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Elliot Ackerman is an American novelist and journalist who served as a Marine Raider and as a CIA Special Activities Officer. War, refugees, Afghanistan, Turkey and the Middle East are the material of his 9 catalogued books, which run from Green on Blue (2015) to Sheepdogs (2025). Dark at the Crossing (2017), Waiting for Eden (2018) and Red Dress in Black and White (2020) are among the novels; Places and Names (2019) and The Fifth Act (2022) are memoirs, the second an account of America's end in Afghanistan. Ackerman also wrote 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, along with 2054 and 2084. Nominations include the National Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Medals in fiction and in non-fiction.
How many Elliot Ackerman books are there?
Elliot Ackerman has 9 books, released between 2015 and 2025.
Elliot Ackerman Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Elliot Ackerman 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.
- 1Green on Blue2015 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420152721/4
- 2Istanbul Letters2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 3Dark at the Crossing2017 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420172721/4
- 4Waiting for Eden2018 · 173 pages · confirmed 1/420181731/4
- 5Places and Names2019 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420192561/4
- 6Red Dress in Black and White2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 7The Fifth Act2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 8Halcyon2023 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420232561/4
- 9Sheepdogs2025 · 296 pages · confirmed 1/420252961/4
Elliot Ackerman 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
9 books9 Elliot Ackerman titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Elliot Ackerman books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Elliot Ackerman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Elliot Ackerman
Start with Green on Blue (2015), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Elliot Ackerman book?
Sheepdogs (2025) is the newest Elliot Ackerman book released so far.
Is there a new Elliot Ackerman book coming?
No next Elliot Ackerman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Elliot Ackerman at a glance
- Still publishing
- Elliot Ackerman published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Elliot Ackerman books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,525 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 264 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Elliot Ackerman books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
What the Elliot Ackerman books are about
4 of the 9 Elliot Ackerman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: war & military is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- War & military 2 of 4 books
- Adultery 1 of 4 books
- Afghanistan 1 of 4 books
- American Personal narratives 1 of 4 books
- Arab Americans 1 of 4 books
- Asia, history 1 of 4 books
- Asian americans 1 of 4 books
- Biography 1 of 4 books
- Hospital patients 1 of 4 books
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 1 of 4 books
- Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives 1 of 4 books
- Marriage 1 of 4 books