Jonathan Dee Books in Order

Jonathan Dee has written 8 books, published between 1990 and 2022. The first book is The Lover of History (1990) and the newest is Sugar Street (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
1990–2022
Total pages
2,325 across 8 books
Reading time
39–58 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,325 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Photo of Jonathan Dee, author of the JonathanDee Standalone Novels series

Jonathan Dee, born in 1962, is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. Eight books are catalogued, from The Lover of History (1990) to Sugar Street (2022), listed as standalone novels rather than a series. The Privileges (2010) stood as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Artists, celebrity, wealth and interpersonal relations head the recorded subjects. All eight books have a page count, 2,325 pages in total at a median of 273.

How many Jonathan Dee books are there?

Jonathan Dee has 8 books, released between 1990 and 2022.

Jonathan Dee Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Jonathan Dee 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. 1
    The Lover of HistoryJonathanDee Standalone Novels #11990 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990228
  2. 2
    The Liberty CampaignJonathanDee Standalone Novels #21993 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993288
  3. 3
    St. FamousJonathanDee Standalone Novels #31995 · 348 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995348
  4. 4
    PalladioJonathanDee Standalone Novels #42002 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002400
  5. 5
    The PrivilegesJonathanDee Standalone Novels #52010 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010258
  6. 6
    A Thousand PardonsJonathanDee Standalone Novels #62013 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013214
  7. 7
    The LocalsJonathanDee Standalone Novels #72017 · 383 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017383
  8. 8
    Sugar StreetJonathanDee Standalone Novels #82022 · 206 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022206

Jonathan Dee 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.

JonathanDee Standalone Novels

8 books

8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Jonathan Dee books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 8 Jonathan Dee books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jonathan Dee

Start with The Lover of History (1990), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jonathan Dee book?

Sugar Street (2022) is the newest Jonathan Dee book released so far.

Is there a new Jonathan Dee book coming?

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

Jonathan Dee at a glance

Paused
No new Jonathan Dee title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Jonathan Dee books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,325 pages across all 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 273 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jonathan Dee books, 3 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jonathan Dee books are about

All 8 Jonathan Dee books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: interpersonal relations is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.