Josie Brown Books in Order
Josie Brown has written 47 books, published between 2003 and 2025. The first book is Marriage Confidential (2003) and the newest is The Housewife Assassin's Doomsday Diary (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 47
- Published
- 2003–2025
- Pages on record
- 4,523 in 16 of 47 books
Josie Brown writes humour, romance and suspense about marriage, celebrity and the motion picture industry. The Housewife Assassin books run from The Housewife Assassin's Handbook (2011) to The Housewife Assassin's Doomsday Diary (2025), the newest of Brown's 47 catalogued titles. Marriage Confidential (2003) opens the catalogue, and Brown's other series are Totlandia, Extracurricular and True Hollywood Lies.
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How many Josie Brown books are there?
Josie Brown has 47 books, released between 2003 and 2025. They include 4 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.
Josie Brown Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 47 Josie Brown 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 November 2026.
- 1Marriage Confidential2003 · confirmed 1/42003–1/4
- 22005–1/4
- 3True Hollywood Lies2005 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/420053101/4
- 4Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans2005 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420051761/4
- 5Impossibly Tongue-Tied2006 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/420063681/4
- 6The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finding Mr. Right2009 · 302 pages · confirmed 1/420093021/4
- 7Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 820112841/4
- 9The Baby Planner2011 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/420113371/4
- 1020122001/4
- 112012–1/4
- 1220122061/4
- 132012–1/4
- 142013–1/4
- 152013–1/4
- 162013–1/4
- 17The Candidate2013 · 290 pages · confirmed 1/420132901/4
- 182013–1/4
- 1920132801/4
- 202014–1/4
- 212014–1/4
- 222014–1/4
- 232015–1/4
- 2420152821/4
- 25The Housewife Assassin's Tips for Weddings, Weapons, and WarfareHousewife Assassin #102015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 262016–1/4
- 272016–1/4
- 2820162901/4
- 292016–1/4
- 302016–1/4
- 312016–1/4
- 3220173021/4
- 3320172921/4
- 342017–1/4
- 3520182961/4
- 3620183081/4
- 372018–1/4
- 382019–1/4
- 392019–1/4
- 402019–1/4
- 41The Housewife Assassin's White House Keeping Seal of ApprovalHousewife Assassin #202020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 422020–1/4
- 442022–1/4
- 452024–1/4
- 462024–1/4
- 472025–1/4
Josie Brown 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.
Housewife Assassin in order
26 books- 1. The Housewife Assassin's Handbook
- 2. The Housewife Assassin's Guide to Gracious Killing
- 3. The Housewife Assassin's Killer Christmas Tips
- 4. The Housewife Assassin's Relationship Survival Guide
- 5. The Housewife Assassin's Vacation to Die for
- 6. The Housewife Assassin's Recipes for Disaster
- 7. The Housewife Assassin's Hollywood Scream Play
- 8. The Housewife Assassin's Killer App
- 9. The Housewife Assassin's Hostage Hosting Tips
- 10. The Housewife Assassin's Tips for Weddings, Weapons, and Warfare
- 11. The Housewife Assassin's Husband Hunting Hints
- 12. The Housewife Assassin's Ghost Protocol
- and 14 more in the table above
Totlandia in order
8 booksExtracurricular in order
3 booksTrue Hollywood Lies in order
2 booksStandalone books
8 books8 Josie Brown titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Josie Brown books in order?
You only need to read Josie Brown books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Josie Brown
Start with Marriage Confidential (2003), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Josie Brown book?
The Housewife Assassin's Doomsday Diary (2025) is the newest Josie Brown book released so far.
Is there a new Josie Brown book coming?
No next Josie Brown book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Josie Brown at a glance
- Still publishing
- Josie Brown published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Josie Brown books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,523 pages across the 16 of 47 books with a recorded length, a median of 291 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Josie Brown books, 34 of 47, were published in the 2010s.
When Josie Brown books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Josie Brown titles appeared. 2010s was the most productive decade with 34 titles.
47 books total across 3 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Josie Brown books are about
7 of the 47 Josie Brown books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 7 books
- Romance 2 of 7 books