Erle Stanley Gardner Books in Order

How many Erle Stanley Gardner books are there?

Erle Stanley Gardner has 152 books, released between 1933 and 2022. 18 of them were published after Erle Stanley Gardner's death in 1970. They include 5 separate series.

Erle Stanley Gardner Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 152 Erle Stanley Gardner 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.

Erle Stanley Gardner series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

• Perry Mason books in order 90 books

Erle Stanley Gardner 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.

Erle Stanley Gardner Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Erle Stanley Gardner books run from The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933) to The Case of the Baited Hook (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Erle Stanley Gardner in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Erle Stanley Gardner books in order?

You only need to read Erle Stanley Gardner books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Erle Stanley Gardner

Start with The Case of the Velvet Claws (1933), the first Perry Mason book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Erle Stanley Gardner book?

The Case of the Baited Hook (2022) is the newest Erle Stanley Gardner book released so far.

Is there a new Erle Stanley Gardner book coming?

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

Awards Erle Stanley Gardner has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Erle Stanley Gardner. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• The Grand Master1962Won

Erle Stanley Gardner at a glance

Died

Erle Stanley Gardner died in 1970, according to Wikidata.

After death

Books credited to Erle Stanley Gardner are still being published after Erle Stanley Gardner's death in 1970; the newest appeared in 2022.

Release pace

Erle Stanley Gardner books have appeared more than one a year on average.

Length

13,048 pages across the 62 of 152 books with a recorded length, a median of 218 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Erle Stanley Gardner books, 42 of 152, were published in the 1940s.

What the Erle Stanley Gardner books are about

105 of the 152 Erle Stanley Gardner books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: perry mason (fictitious character) is tagged on 74 of 105. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Perry Mason (Fictitious character) 74 of 105 books
• Trials (murder) 49 of 105 books
• Mystery & detective 46 of 105 books
• Mason, perry (fictitious character) 40 of 105 books
• Lawyers 32 of 105 books
• California 26 of 105 books
• Fiction in English 25 of 105 books
• Legal stories 19 of 105 books
• Los Angeles (Calif.) 15 of 105 books
• Crime 8 of 105 books