Joseph Heller Books in Order
Joseph Heller has written 9 books, published between 1961 and 2000. The first book is Catch-22 (1961) and the newest is Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1961–2000
- Pages on record
- 3,097 in 8 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 52–77 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,097 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Joseph Heller (1923–1999) wrote novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, is the work he is known for, and its title passed into English as a name for an absurd or self-cancelling choice. Heller was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1972 and 1975. His 9 catalogued titles run to Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000) and take in Something Happened (1974), Good as Gold (1979), God Knows (1984) and Closing Time (1994), catalogued in the same Catch-22 series.
How many Joseph Heller books are there?
Joseph Heller has 9 books, released between 1961 and 2000. 2 of them belong to the Catch 22 series.
Joseph Heller Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Joseph Heller 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.
- 119615242/4
- 219745302/4
- 31979–2/4
- 419843982/4
- 519863352/4
- 619883412/4
- 719944642/4
- 819982722/4
- 9Portrait of an Artist, as an Old ManJoseph Heller Standalone Novels #52000 · 233 pages · confirmed 2/420002332/4
Joseph Heller 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.
Joseph Heller Standalone Novels
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Catch 22 in order
2 books- 1. Catch-22
- 2. Closing Time
Joseph Heller Non-Fiction
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Joseph Heller books in order?
You only need to read Joseph Heller books in order within the Catch 22 series, which holds 2 of the 9 Joseph Heller books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Joseph Heller
Start with Catch-22 (1961), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Joseph Heller book?
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000) is the newest Joseph Heller book released so far.
Is there a new Joseph Heller book coming?
No next Joseph Heller 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 Joseph Heller has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Joseph Heller. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Prix Médicis étranger1985Won
Joseph Heller at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Joseph Heller title on record dates from 2000, 26 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Joseph Heller books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 3,097 pages across the 8 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 370 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Joseph Heller books, 3 of 9, were published in the 1980s.
What the Joseph Heller books are about
All 9 Joseph Heller books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: novelists is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Novelists 3 of 9 books
- Authors 2 of 9 books
- Biography 2 of 9 books
- Middle-aged men 2 of 9 books
- Satire 2 of 9 books
- World War, 1939-1945 2 of 9 books