Jack Batten Books in Order
Jack Batten has written 35 books, published between 1969 and 2020. The first book is The Inside Story of Conn Smythe's Hockey Dynasty (1969) and the newest is Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 35
- Published
- 1969–2020
- Pages on record
- 6,169 in 30 of 35 books
- Reading time
- 103–154 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,169 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 35 titles with a page count on record.
Jack Batten, born in 1932, is a Canadian writer and broadcaster working in both fiction and non-fiction. Non-fiction dominates the 35 catalogued books, which run from The Inside Story of Conn Smythe's Hockey Dynasty (1969) to Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer (2020) and take in hockey and the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadian lawyers and the courts, and the First World War. The fiction is the Crang Mystery series, opening with Crang Plays the Ace (1987). Median length is 224 pages.
How many Jack Batten books are there?
Jack Batten has 35 books, released between 1969 and 2020. 7 of them belong to the Crang Mystery series.
Jack Batten Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 35 Jack Batten 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.
- 1The Inside Story of Conn Smythe's Hockey Dynasty1969 · confirmed 2/41969–2/4
- 2Champions1971 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/419711972/4
- 3Honest Ed's Story1972 · 237 pages · confirmed 2/419722372/4
- 4The Leafs in Autumn1975 · 143 pages · confirmed 2/419751432/4
- 5The Complete Jogger1977 · 145 pages · confirmed 2/419771452/4
- 6Canada Moves Westward, 1880/18901977 · 127 pages · confirmed 2/419771272/4
- 7LAWYERS.1981 · 1 pages · confirmed 2/4198112/4
- 8In court1982 · confirmed 2/41982–2/4
- 9Robinette, The Dean Of Canadian Lawyers1985 · 199 pages · confirmed 2/419851992/4
- 1019872882/4
- 11Judges1987 · confirmed 2/41987–2/4
- 12Everyday Law1987 · 234 pages · confirmed 2/419872342/4
- 13On Trial1988 · 1 pages · confirmed 2/4198812/4
- 1419893102/4
- 1519902642/4
- 1619912402/4
- 17Class of '751992 · confirmed 2/41992–2/4
- 18Rosedale: The First 100 Years of Rosedale Golf Club1993 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/419932242/4
- 19The Maple Leafs1994 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/419943082/4
- 20Hoopla1996 · 239 pages · confirmed 2/419962392/4
- 21Canada at the Olympics1996 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/419962232/4
- 22Mind Over Murder1997 · 280 pages · confirmed 2/419972802/4
- 23A History of Bennett Jones Verchere1997 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/419971802/4
- 24The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone2002 · 104 pages · confirmed 2/420021042/4
- 25Hockey Dynasties2002 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420022562/4
- 26The Annex2004 · 159 pages · confirmed 2/420041592/4
- 27A Brilliant and Appalling Life2005 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420052882/4
- 28Learned Friends2005 · 110 pages · confirmed 2/420051102/4
- 29Silent in An Evil Time2007 · 135 pages · confirmed 2/420071352/4
- 30The War to End All Wars2009 · 154 pages · confirmed 2/420091542/4
- 31Oscar Peterson2012 · 165 pages · confirmed 2/420121652/4
- 3220132942/4
- 3320163362/4
- 3420173282/4
- 35Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
Jack Batten 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.
Crang Mystery in order
7 booksStandalone books
28 books28 Jack Batten titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jack Batten books in order?
You only need to read Jack Batten books in order within the Crang Mystery series, which holds 7 of the 35 Jack Batten books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Jack Batten
Start with The Inside Story of Conn Smythe's Hockey Dynasty (1969), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jack Batten book?
Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer (2020) is the newest Jack Batten book released so far.
Is there a new Jack Batten book coming?
No next Jack Batten book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jack Batten at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Jack Batten title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Jack Batten books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 6,169 pages across the 30 of 35 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jack Batten books, 9 of 35, were published in the 1990s.
What the Jack Batten books are about
26 of the 35 Jack Batten books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 7 of 26. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 7 of 26 books
- History 5 of 26 books
- Histoire 4 of 26 books
- Juvenile literature 4 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 26 books
- Canada, biography 2 of 26 books
- Crang (Fictitious character) 2 of 26 books
- Droit 2 of 26 books
- Hockey 2 of 26 books
- Lawyers 2 of 26 books
- Ouvrages de vulgarisation 2 of 26 books