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Jo Baker Books in Order

Jo Baker has written 9 books, published between 2002 and 2023. The first book is Offcomer (2002) and the newest is The Midnight News (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
2002–2023
Pages on record
2,229 in 7 of 9 books
Reading time
37–56 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,229 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

See all 9 books in order Printable Jo Baker checklist

Jo Baker is a British writer, and the sourced record counts six novels under the name, Longbourn among them. Nine books are catalogued here, from Offcomer (2002) to The Midnight News (2023). Baker has written short stories for BBC Radio 4, plus reviews for The Guardian and for The New York Times Book Review. A Visiting Fellowship at Queen's University Belfast followed in 2018, and Baker holds an Honorary Fellowship at Lancaster University. The Mermaid's Child (2004), The Telling (2008), Longbourn (2013), A Country Road, A Tree (2016) and The Body Lies (2019) sit in the run, and Samuel Beckett in Company is the series grouped under the name.

How many Jo Baker books are there?

Jo Baker has 9 books, released between 2002 and 2023. 1 of them belong to the Samuel Beckett in Company series.

Jo Baker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Jo Baker 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 Offcomer by Jo Baker (2002)
  2. Cover of The Mermaid's Child by Jo Baker (2004)
  3. Cover of The Telling by Jo Baker (2008)
  4. Cover of The Undertow / The Picture Book by Jo Baker (2011)
  5. Cover of Longbourn by Jo Baker (2013)
  6. Cover of A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker (2016)
  7. Cover of The Body Lies by Jo Baker (2019)
  8. Cover of The Midnight News by Jo Baker (2023)
  1. 1
    Offcomer2002 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002308
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  2. 2
    The Mermaid's Child2004 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004272
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  3. 3
    The Telling2008 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008358
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  4. 4
    The Undertow / The Picture Book2011 · 335 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011335
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  5. 5
    Longbourn2013 · 331 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013331
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  6. 6
    A Country Road, A Tree2016 · 289 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016289
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  7. 8
    The Body Lies2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  8. 9
    The Midnight News2023 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023336
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Jo Baker 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.

Samuel Beckett in Company in order

1 book
  1. 1. Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture

Standalone books

8 books

8 Jo Baker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jo Baker books in order?

You only need to read Jo Baker books in order within the Samuel Beckett in Company series, which holds 1 of the 9 Jo Baker books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jo Baker

Start with Offcomer (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jo Baker book?

The Midnight News (2023) is the newest Jo Baker book released so far.

Is there a new Jo Baker book coming?

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

Jo Baker at a glance

Paused
No new Jo Baker title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Jo Baker books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,229 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 331 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jo Baker books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jo Baker books are about

6 of the 9 Jo Baker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fiction / literary is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.