Katherine Neville Books in Order

Katherine Neville has written 5 books, published between 1988 and 2017. The first book is The Eight (1988) and the newest is The Tuesday Club (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
1988–2017
Pages on record
1,957 in 4 of 5 books
Reading time
33–49 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,957 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

Katherine Neville, born in 1945, writes adventure and quest novels built on puzzles, ciphers and hunted objects. The Eight (1988) sets a chess service at the centre of its quest, and The Fire (2008) continues it twenty years later; the two make up the Montglane Service series. A Calculated Risk (1992) turns to banking and computer crime, and The Magic Circle (1998) to manuscripts and millennial prophecy. Five books reach The Tuesday Club (2017), roughly seven years apart, at a median of 508 pages.

How many Katherine Neville books are there?

Katherine Neville has 5 books, released between 1988 and 2017. 2 of them belong to the Montglane Service series.

Katherine Neville Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Katherine Neville 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 EightMontglane Service #11988 · 598 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988598
  2. 2
    A Calculated Risk1992 · 343 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992343
  3. 3
    The Magic Circle1998 · 552 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998552
  4. 4
    The FireMontglane Service #22008 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008464
  5. 5
    The Tuesday Club2017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017

Katherine Neville 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.

Montglane Service in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Eight
  2. 2. The Fire

Standalone books

3 books

3 Katherine Neville titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Katherine Neville books in order?

You only need to read Katherine Neville books in order within the Montglane Service series, which holds 2 of the 5 Katherine Neville books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Katherine Neville

Start with The Eight (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Katherine Neville book?

The Tuesday Club (2017) is the newest Katherine Neville book released so far.

Is there a new Katherine Neville book coming?

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

Katherine Neville at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Katherine Neville title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Katherine Neville books have appeared about one every 7 years on average.
Length
1,957 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 508 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Katherine Neville books, 2 of 5, were published in the 1990s.

What the Katherine Neville books are about

4 of the 5 Katherine Neville books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: chess sets is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Chess sets 2 of 4 books
  • Puzzles 2 of 4 books
  • Suspense 2 of 4 books
  • Action & adventure 1 of 4 books
  • Banks and banking 1 of 4 books
  • Code and cipher stories 1 of 4 books
  • Collectors and collecting 1 of 4 books
  • Computer crimes 1 of 4 books
  • Family secrets 1 of 4 books
  • Manuscripts 1 of 4 books
  • Millennium (Eschatology) 1 of 4 books
  • Mystery & detective 1 of 4 books