Jake Tapper Books in Order
Jake Tapper has written 8 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is Body Slam (1999) and the newest is Race Against Terror (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1999–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,962 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 33–49 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,962 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Jake Tapper writes political non-fiction and political fiction. Eight titles are catalogued from Body Slam (1999) to Original Sin and Race Against Terror, both 2025, with The Outpost (2012), The Hellfire Club (2018) and All the Demons Are Here (2023) between them. Charlie and Margaret Marder is the named fiction series. Presidents, governors, political campaigns and the 2000 United States election fill the subject tags.
How many Jake Tapper books are there?
Jake Tapper has 8 books, released between 1999 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Charlie and Margaret Marder series.
Jake Tapper Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Jake Tapper 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.
- 1Body Slam1999 · 249 pages · confirmed 1/419992491/4
- 2DownDirty2001 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420013521/4
- 3The Outpost2012 · 673 pages · confirmed 1/420126731/4
- 420183521/4
- 520213361/4
- 6All the Demons Are Here2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 7Original Sin2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 8Race Against Terror2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Jake Tapper 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.
Charlie and Margaret Marder in order
2 booksStandalone books
6 books6 Jake Tapper titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Jake Tapper Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Jake Tapper books run from Body Slam (1999) to Race Against Terror (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Jake Tapper in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Jake Tapper books in order?
You only need to read Jake Tapper books in order within the Charlie and Margaret Marder series, which holds 2 of the 8 Jake Tapper books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Jake Tapper
Start with Body Slam (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jake Tapper book?
Race Against Terror (2025) is the newest Jake Tapper book released so far.
Is there a new Jake Tapper book coming?
No next Jake Tapper 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 Jake Tapper has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Jake Tapper. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award2018Won
Jake Tapper at a glance
- Still publishing
- Jake Tapper published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Jake Tapper books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,962 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jake Tapper books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Jake Tapper books are about
5 of the 8 Jake Tapper books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: political fiction is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Political fiction 2 of 5 books
- Afghan War, 2001- 1 of 5 books
- Biography 1 of 5 books
- Campaigns 1 of 5 books
- Conspiracies 1 of 5 books
- Counterinsurgency 1 of 5 books
- Election 1 of 5 books
- Governors 1 of 5 books
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1 of 5 books
- Insurgency 1 of 5 books
- Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009 1 of 5 books
- Legislators 1 of 5 books





