John Berendt Books in Order
John Berendt has written 3 books, published between 1994 and 2011. The first book is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) and the newest is My Baby Blue Jays (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 1994–2011
- Pages on record
- 800 in 2 of 3 books
John Berendt, born in 1939, is an American author of narrative non-fiction with three catalogued books. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) was a best-seller and a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The City of Falling Angels (2005) draws on the people Berendt met while living in Venice in the months after the 1996 fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. My Baby Blue Jays followed in 2011. True crime, murder trials, travel writing and social history are the subjects indexed against the catalogue.
How many John Berendt books are there?
John Berendt has 3 books, released between 1994 and 2011.
John Berendt Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 3 John Berendt 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.
- 1Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1994 · 386 pages · confirmed 1/419943861/4
- 2The City of Falling Angels2005 · 414 pages · confirmed 1/420054141/4
- 3My Baby Blue Jays2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
John Berendt 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
3 books3 John Berendt titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read John Berendt books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 3 John Berendt books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with John Berendt
Start with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest John Berendt book?
My Baby Blue Jays (2011) is the newest John Berendt book released so far.
Is there a new John Berendt book coming?
No next John Berendt book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
John Berendt at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest John Berendt title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- John Berendt books have appeared about one every 9 years on average.
- Length
- 800 pages across the 2 of 3 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
What the John Berendt books are about
All 3 John Berendt books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: travel is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Travel 2 of 3 books
- History 2 of 3 books
- Nonfiction 2 of 3 books
- Social life and customs 2 of 3 books
- Archives 1 of 3 books
- Birds 1 of 3 books
- Birds, juvenile literature 1 of 3 books
- Blue jay 1 of 3 books
- Celebrities 1 of 3 books
- Fire, 1996 1 of 3 books
- Friends and associates 1 of 3 books
- Infants 1 of 3 books