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John Buchan Books in Order

John Buchan has written 84 books, published between 1895 and 2023. The first book is Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895) and the newest is Shoreline of Infinity 35 (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
84
Published
1895–2023
Confirmed
1 of 84 titles
Pages on record
13,392 in 54 of 84 books
Reading time
223–335 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 13,392 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 54 of 84 titles with a page count on record.

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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 to 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, army officer and Unionist politician who served as the 15th Governor General of Canada. Buchan published a first novel in 1895, the year of Sir Quixote of the Moors, the earliest catalogued title, and went on to write more than a hundred books, The Thirty-Nine Steps the best known among them. Series include Richard Hannay, the Leithen Stories and Dickson McCunn. Buchan studied at Glasgow and Oxford, practised as a barrister, and in 1901 was private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa near the end of the Boer War. Subjects include the First World War, the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, the intelligence service and Scotland.

How many John Buchan books are there?

John Buchan has 84 books, released between 1895 and 2023. They include 3 series and 69 titles listed outside any series.

John Buchan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 84 John Buchan 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 John Burnet of Barns by John Buchan (1898)
  2. Cover of A Lost Lady of Old Years by John Buchan (1899)
  3. Cover of The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan (1912)
  4. Cover of Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan (1915)
  5. Cover of Mr. Standfast by John Buchan, book 3 of the Richard Hannay series (1919)
  6. Cover of These for Remembrance by John Buchan (1919)
  7. Cover of Huntingtower by John Buchan, book 1 of the Dickson McCunn series (1922)
  8. Cover of The Last Secrets by John Buchan (1923)
  9. Cover of John MacNab by John Buchan, book 2 of the Leithen Stories series (1924)
  10. Cover of The Three Hostages by John Buchan, book 4 of the Richard Hannay series (1924)
  11. Cover of The Dancing Floor by John Buchan, book 3 of the Leithen Stories series (1926)
  12. Cover of The Runagates Club by John Buchan (1928)
  13. Cover of The Kirk in Scotland by John Buchan (1930)
  14. Cover of The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan, book 4 of the Leithen Stories series (1932)
  15. Cover of The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn by John Buchan (1932)
  16. Cover of A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan (1933)
  17. Cover of The Massacre of Glencoe by John Buchan (1933)
  18. Cover of Gordon At Khartoum by John Buchan (1934)
  19. Cover of Oliver Cromwell by John Buchan (1934)
  20. Cover of The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan, book 3 of the Dickson McCunn series (1935)
  21. Cover of The King's Grace: 1910-1935 by John Buchan (1935)
  22. Cover of The Island of Sheep by John Buchan, book 6 of the Richard Hannay series (1936)
  23. Cover of Episodes of the Great War by John Buchan (1936)
  24. Cover of Augustus by John Buchan (1937)
  1. 1
    Sir Quixote of the Moors1895 · 86 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189586
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  2. 2
    Scholar Gipsies1896 · confirmed 2/4
    1896–
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  3. 3
    Musa Piscatrix1896 · confirmed 2/4
    1896–
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  4. 4
    Sir Walter Raleigh1897 · 138 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1897138
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  5. 5
    John Burnet of Barns1898 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1898322
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  6. 6
    Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People1899 · 172 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1899172
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  7. 7
    A Lost Lady of Old Years1899 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1899242
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  8. 8
    No-Man's-Land1899 · 94 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189994
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  9. 9
    The Half-Hearted1900 · confirmed 2/4
    1900–
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  10. 10
    The Watcher By the Threshold and Other Tales1902 · confirmed 2/4
    1902–
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  11. 11
    A Lodge in the Wilderness1906 · confirmed 2/4
    1906–
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  12. 12
    Some Eighteenth Century Byways, And Other Essays1908 · 345 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1908345
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  13. 13
    Prester John1910 · confirmed 2/4
    1910–
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  14. 14
    Sir Walter Scott1911 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
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  15. 15
    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies1912 · 348 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1912348
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  16. 16
    Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall1913 · confirmed 2/4
    1913–
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    The Thirty-Nine StepsRichard Hannay #11915 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1915128
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  18. 18
    What I Saw In California1915 · 104 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1915104
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  19. 19
    Salute to Adventurers1915 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1915196
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  20. 20
    The Power-HouseLeithen Stories #11916 · 108 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1916108
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  21. 21
    GreenmantleRichard Hannay #21916 · confirmed 2/4
    1916–
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  22. 22
    History of the Battle of the Somme1917 · confirmed 2/4
    1917–
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  23. 23
    Mr. StandfastRichard Hannay #31919 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1919352
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  24. 24
    These for Remembrance1919 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1919128
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  25. 25
    Fullcircle1920 · confirmed 2/4
    1920–
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  26. 26
    Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, a Memoir1920 · confirmed 2/4
    1920–
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  27. 27
    HuntingtowerDickson McCunn #11922 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1922240
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  28. 28
    A History of the Great War1922 · confirmed 2/4
    1922–
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  29. 29
    Midwinter1923 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1923272
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  30. 30
    The Last Secrets1923 · 344 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1923344
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John Buchan series in order

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

John Buchan 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.

Leithen Stories in order

5 books
  1. 1. The Power-House
  2. 2. John MacNab
  3. 3. The Dancing Floor
  4. 4. The Gap in the Curtain
  5. 5. Sick Heart River

Dickson McCunn in order

3 books
  1. 1. Huntingtower
  2. 2. Castle Gay
  3. 3. The House of the Four Winds

Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine in order

1 book
  1. 36. Shoreline of Infinity 35

Standalone books

69 books

69 John Buchan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read John Buchan books in order?

You only need to read John Buchan books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with John Buchan

Start with The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), the first Richard Hannay book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895).

What is the newest John Buchan book?

Shoreline of Infinity 35 (2023) is the newest John Buchan book released so far.

Is there a new John Buchan book coming?

No next John Buchan 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 John Buchan has won

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

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize1928Won

John Buchan at a glance

Paused
No new John Buchan title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
John Buchan books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
13,392 pages across the 54 of 84 books with a recorded length, a median of 257 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most John Buchan books, 18 of 84, were published in the 1930s.

What the John Buchan books are about

51 of the 84 John Buchan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 16 of 51. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.